Google App Engine News
Posted in Yesterday, Google Inc unveiled it pricing details for the Google App Engine. The announcement comes on the eve of the company’s first-ever developer conference.
First announced in April, Google’s App Engine provides hosted dynamic web servicing, persistent storage, automatic scaling, a local development environment and authentication and load balancing aimed at making it easier for developers to build web applications.
Google has touted the App to developers as a way to take advantage of the most visited site on the internet’s own infrastructure, and to build, test and run their own applications.
The waiting list for the Google App Engine has 150,000 developers since it was announced, and as of today it is available to any developer without waiting.
The pricing of the App Engine has been a mystery but now Google have provided us with answers. The product is free to get started, and in the current preview release applications will continue to be restricted to the free quota of up to 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views per month, Google said.
Once the preview period ends – later this year – developers will pay:
$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
Other announcements for the App Engine in the coming weeks include new developer APIs; a new image-manipulation API will allow developers to scale, rotate and crop images on the server, and a new memcache API is aimed at making page rendering faster for developers through a high performance caching layer.
This new announcement is part of Google’s continued effort to get cosy with developers. With the Google I/O developer conference taking part today in San Francisco, the company is expecting around 2,900 developers to attend.
With regard to the conference, Tom Stocky, Google’s director of product management for developer products noted, “The Web is really the de facto platform for application developers. We think this in many ways represents an inflection point for Web developers. The Web has brought a new level of interoperability for apps. Developers can choose between APIs and bring a new level of utility to end users.”
In related news, Google Web Toolkit Release Candidate 1.5 will be released at the end of the week, and will include Java 5 language support to help developers build AJAX applications without having to worry about common barriers like browser capability.
Google added that this next release includes a compiler for producing faster code and a growing set of libraries for building AJAX applications.
