Large number of small apps / AWS Integration

[brad]

Hello app engine. I am a big time user of Amazon Web Services.

I find that a lot of times I would like to have a simple python script
or module run on demand rather than spinning up a big expensive EC2
server.

I feel like App Engine could be great for this! Unfortunately, it
seems totally geared towards building big flahsy web apps, when all I
want to build are tiny little web services.

I am actually already doing this. My static website http://www.bluepines.org
is being served by Amazon S3 (which is cheap) and the email part for
contacts uses Google App Engine (which is free).

So my question is, are people using app engine to build a bunch of
small web services, and is there any way to pay google more money to
get the app limit raised or get some of kind of Enterprise Account set
up with them.

Cheers

[Tim Hoffman]

Its trivial to write small web services in appengine,
be they xmlrpc, jsonrpc, simple rest services.  (SOAP is a lot harder ;-)

You don't have to have multiple appengine instances. You could easily run a bunch of different services
out of the same instance.

If you need to make sure individual web services in an instance can't share data then
use names spaces.  Have a read up on multitenancy  http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/multitenancy/

Rgds

T