"We are talking about this service at this early stage because we believe this will help many of our EC2 customers with setting their development priorities for

"We are talking about this service at this early stage because we believe this will help many of our EC2 customers with setting their development priorities for this year." translation: "Contrary to what we usually do, we decided to announce this still under development features so Google App Engine doesn't continue to steal headlines, or any future clients choosing a platform, from us - you know how the press loves to champion Google innovation."