Echo the sentiments of another poster

[John Wheeler]

I wanted to put what another poster wrote in another thread because it is so dead-on. Google coming out with all these rationales and exclamation marks! behind all their "our premium services are not cheap!" means nothing. That's not how you advertised it initially. You said we wouldn't have to worry about this, and that you're just rationalizing away and arguing with the developers who made the platform successful. This is the grossest example of vendor-lock in. If your answer if for us to rejig our apps in two weeks. Please, be reasonable Google. Some of us have embraced the no hassles promise of your platform with more than 1 app. We don't have the resources to meet with your ridiculous time tables across multiple apps.

"What we tried is not exactly what we are going to be buying. Nobody had a clue what the real prices would look like and earlier speculations were shot down as ridiculous projections. 

What we tried was a platform where I dont have to worry about Instances and tuning the scheduler for costs. Tell me with a straight face that this is the same platform." 

[Anders]

"What we tried was a platform where I dont have to worry about Instances and tuning the scheduler for costs." -- very interesting quote

That's exactly what I have been writing in other threads. Google should work on the instances and the scheduler under the hood, and not use it to rip off the customers as other cloud service providers likely do. When big media starts to learn that cloud service companies have been ripping off their customers, then they will be marked as too greedy for the 21th century markets, resulting in a bad goodwill for those companies.

[Strom]

2 weeks? Ridiculous time tables?

Dude, the new pricing was announced in the beginning of May. You can
only blame yourself for waiting 4 months with the optimization.

[Anders]

To be fair we don't know yet what the actual cost will be for frontend instances, but if the cost for the frontend instances becomes higher than 100% of the total cost of the other quotas, then I would start worrying.

[Raymond C.]

yet they are asking us to wait until many of the new features arrives and changes to be made before making further decision...