Most of the time, these statements are meant to get one to ask "what about their competitors?" In this case, this is most assuredly trying to get people to thin

Most of the time, these statements are meant to get one to ask "what about their competitors?" In this case, this is most assuredly trying to get people to think about AWS, and their well-known outage last year. However, on these statements, I always focus on the "apps". I'm not familiar with the GAE environment beyond what I read, but the last time I looked into it, I could deploy on GAE for free. I pushed a simple test application up there to see how it worked. It wasn't anything beyond a how-does-this-work experiment. Which makes me ask: how many of those 100K apps aren't similar to mine, or at least of the unpaid variety? Not to refer to those applications as unimportant, but companies are paying for AWS (some substantially so) and it's known that an outage in AWS is a major consideration for companies that use that platform. I'm unaware of the context of usage of paid accounts on GAE. If GAE had an outage, would it matter? Would people notice? I don't know how big or critical their community of paid apps represents in the grand scheme of things.