Google App Engine pricing a disappointment

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CPU pricing comparison is misleading

EC2 charges by the instance-hour. That is, it costs 10c per hour that each of your EC2 instances is up ($72/month for one instance), regardless of how much load is being put on each instance.

If Google is charging by the "CPU core-hour", implying that it's a pay-as-you-go model. You pay for the cycles that your app burns; if your app is hammered, you'll be paying for multiple CPU core-hours per elapsed real-time hour (as if you'd spun up multiple EC2 instances to handle the extra load). While you're idle, though, you wouldn't pay anything.

I'd say that the Google scheme is a lot fairer, though that's only possible because your app logic only runs on demand, in a fixed environment (rather than your own Unix image).

Posted by: Jason Etheridge   Posted on: 05/29/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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