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Google’s App Engine platform
This evening, Google unveiled something called the App Engine:
- hosting environment exclusively for web applications
- initially free up to a certain site load (500 MB storage, 10 Gb bandwidth a day, ~5 million pageviews/month — I wish that was a problem I had!)
- supports Python (initially) but will eventually support more languages
- they seem to have their own api and their own web application framework, I wonder if they’ll support more like Django (Python) or, of course, Ruby on Rails
How this compares to Amazon:
- This is not a general purpose web hosting or grid service like EC2 — this is tailored specifically to web applications
- Free up to a certain amount of usage (probably only something Google/MS could afford to offer)