Comments on: Google spiffs up its cloud — take that Amazon!

By: Cloud man

Cloud man — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:08:57 +0000

I agree with you that DRE is similar to Glacier as it only reduces availability not durability as RRS does.

By: Osvaldo Doederlein

Osvaldo Doederlein — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:16:37 +0000

GAE is a different model, a ” managed” environment not much different in spirit from JavaEE. You can use the new Compute Engine to run arbitrary code: use any languages or libraries, tune the OS, configure the network as open or as closed as you like, etc.

By: Karthik Karuppannan

Karthik Karuppannan — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:25:03 +0000

Google is in no way near AWS in terms of features. You can’t even make an outbound HTTPS call from any web application hosted in GAE… that’s a shame. And of course, there is this restriction on JRE classes (white listed alone can be used). If you are hosting a simple web app with back end (and scale it for millions of users), then GAE is good and better than AWS. For all other cases, I really don’t see GAE catching up with AWS in near time.

By: Rvinyl

Rvinyl — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:05:06 +0000

Excellent! We use Amazon at present but with Google upping the ante they may well be a viable alternative!