Blobstore and New Billing

[Sean Lynch]

Does the Blobstore API still require billing to be enabled to be used?  Based on the quota docs, it does:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Blobstore

But there is no mention of it on the Blobstore pages:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html

Also, I saw mention that the Blobstore will be free (up to 5G) under the new billing model.  When will this take effect?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/VCYbRH4WWBI/mQKSo1tRzfEJ

I'm currently working on a new Google Apps / App Engine site for a customer, and needed to notify them whether they needed to enable billing (it's low traffic, and thus hadn't planned on it up to this point).

Thanks,

Sean

[Gregory D'alesandre]

Hi Sean,

You still need to have billing enabled in order to use blobstore.  Once App Engine goes out of preview both free and paid apps will be able to use blobstore.  We'll be going out of preview before the end of the year but don't have a specific date to announce just yet.

Thanks!

Greg

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[Sean Lynch]

Thanks for the reply.

[Joe]

With Billing Enabled to make use of the blobstore, if we fail to disable billing, i presume the $9 monthly fee will kick in?

So we need to time the disabling of billing very carefully so as to keep the Blobstore API working, but not incur a $9 fee for the first month.

Does google have a plan for this? i dont want a $9 bill for an app that should be free!

[Sean Lynch]

I was just thinking about this the other day, and am also interested on how the transitionwill affect the Blobstore API availability.

[Gregory D'alesandre]

We will enable blobstore on free apps ahead of time so you won't have to time this too precisely.  We'll announce once this is live.

Greg

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Sean Lynch <tech...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was just thinking about this the other day, and am also interested on how the transitionwill affect the Blobstore API availability.

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[Sean Lynch]

Thanks