Remember that you can start using the platform for free, today. They have free daily quotas (I know for certain in the case of GAE, but I believe for the other

Remember that you can start using the platform for free, today. They have free daily quotas (I know for certain in the case of GAE, but I believe for the other services as well), which are kind of low, but good enough for proofs of concept and prototyping. Still, this is a commercial product, and running it implies a cost to Google. Thinking that they would give away 100K worth of services to anybody that asks for it is unrealistic.