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$0.10 per 100k writes is just a way of them billing you. Sure it's a lot compared to your avarage HDD price, but the data is hosted on at least 3 datacenters at
by Strom 15y ago
$0.10 per 100k writes is just a way of them billing you. Sure it's a lot compared to your avarage HDD price, but the data is hosted on at least 3 datacenters at all times, running google's software stack & everything is being constantly monitored by Google's SRE team.
App Engine pricing might seem expensive if you try to do a simple table comparsion with alternatives, but when you get more deeply into it you'll find that a lot of stuff that is included in the service with GAE will cost you extra when you use the alternatives.
- vosper 15y agoOne of the things that is not included is any real support, unless you go for the $500/month Premium package, which then only buys you a 2-hour turnaround with 18h/5d support. For that much money you should at least be able to get some support on the weekend.
- nischalshetty 15y agocombine that with the fact that the High Replication Datastore will most probably never see a downtime and you tend to be ok with the cost (of course as a app engine customer, you would always want lower costs, but the current write cost is not a deal breaker). The only problem here is that "delete" is considered a write and when you want to delete data you just cannot accept the fact that you need to pay for something you do not want to keep. I think GAE should definitely look into this aspect and try to get some cheaper alternatives for data deletion.