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People still use Google AppEngine with its outrageous pricing?

• kolev 13y ago
  Thanks for the downvote, but my experience is that for a relatively small project we started to receive $200+ monthly bills and had to switch to EC2.
  • iampims 13y ago
    What was costing you $200+ monthly bills? CPU? Storage? Datastore operations?
  • kolev 13y ago
    Very small, but frequent DB updates. I wasn't responsible for the software, but simply put, it was a backend for a not-so-popular Chrome extension, which was doing authentication and persisting some state (a few integers). I'm sure the architecture could've been optimized specifically for AppEngine to reduce the cost, but why do you need to invest so much effort in optimizing something so basic that works just fine on EC2 m1.small or Digital Ocean for few bucks per month?
  • yahelc 13y ago
    FWIW, I'm currently maintaining a project that does half a billion API calls per month for ~$400/month