How changing the scheduler decreased my estimated bill

[Philip]

Hi,

today the new estimated bills were available and I could see the
results of changing my scheduler. I've set Max Idle Instances to "2"
and Min Pending Latency to "automatic". As a result my instance hours
are just 20% of what it used to be with automatic idle instances.

Thats a price that I am willing to pay even though hosting on azure
would be cheaper in my case because IIS has true multi-threading. But
I am confided that the app engine team is working hard to roll out
python 2.7 to production as soon as possible.

[Raymond C.]

As a result what is the change of the overall price?

[Philip]

With the changed instance knob I only seeing a 45% price increase
compared to the current price. There is still some room if I take a
look at the datastore write ops. I use some very inefficient code that
is writing way too many indexes. If I get my price increase to
something near 30% I'll ditch my plan too go to azure even though I am
sitting on packed bags.