Google app engine to announce sign-ups, pricing at Google I/O
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Google fanatics and developers are getting ready for Google I/O - the company’s largest developer event of the year at Moscone center in San Francisco. The company is expected to announce the opening off the Google App Engine for everyone and also announce API’s to access the app engine infrastructure.
Google App Engine™ enables developers to build their web apps on the same infrastructure that powers Google’s own applications. On Wednesday, Google App Engine will be available to everyone.
Google App Engine is also announcing its pricing plans for purchasing additional computing resources; this is something developers have been asking for ever since the initial launch. The product will be free to get started, and in the current preview release apps will continue to be restricted to that free quota. Later this year, once the preview period has ended, developers can expect to pay:
- Free quota to get started (only in the preview period): 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month
- $0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour
- $0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month of storage
- $0.11 - $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
- $0.09 - $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth
This pricing puts Google App Engine storage and bandwidth costs competitive with Amazon S3
Google App Engine will also provide two new APIs in the coming weeks. The image-manipulation API enables developers to scale, rotate, and crop images on the server, and the memcache API is a high-performance caching layer designed to make page rendering faster for developers.
Cloud computing is becoming big with several solutions available for users: Amazon’s elastic compute cloud ( EC2 ) and Amazon S3, Rackspace’s Mosso, Joyent and Media Temple’s grid service. Cloud computing is becoming big as developers, small and medium sized businesses are moving from self hosted servers to a more commodity pay per use approach to server and storage.
