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Google App Engine vs. Amazon EC2

23 points by jehna1 12y ago

davismwfl 12y ago
I don't think the comparison is equal. You are comparing PAAS to IAAS, but AWS does have Elastic Beanstalk which would be a more direct comparison e.g. PAAS. Like App Engine, Elastic Beanstalk handles the auto scaling without having to setup and understand all the details around EC2.
- jehna1 12y ago
  You are quite right. Amazon does have different set of products that would also cover the pros of App Engine. I think the comparison is more of "PaaS vs. IaaS" than "AWS vs Google Cloud Platform".
  - davismwfl 12y ago
    Yep, that seems fair. You made a number of valid points, looking at it from a PaaS vs. IaaS.
- pacala 12y ago
  Google has Google Compute Engine for their IAAS layer. https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine/ https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine/
  - jehna1 12y ago
    Yes, and the ManagedVM will work as a kind of middle-man between GAE and Compute Engine to give greater flexibility on configuration. For now, it's only in beta.
spindritf 12y ago
Personal note: I found the GAE quotas don't even count the static requests (static HTML + CSS). So this site should never cost me anything. And there are five free SNI slots, too, right? So... you can host a static site available over ssl completely for free on GAE?
- jehna1 12y ago
  Practically yes. I probably should add the SSL also and make a post of it.
- lehtu 12y ago
  Almost. SNI slots are free - Yes, but still you have to buy the SSL certificate from somewhere (cheapest are something like $8/year - https://www.ssls.com https://www.ssls.com)
  - spindritf 12y ago
    If you can use any CA, you can get a free certificate from StartSSL https://startssl.com/ https://startssl.com/
  - jehna1 12y ago
    And since SNI isn't legacy-compatible, Google itself recommends to "detect browsers that do not support SNI and recommend a browser that supports it" https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl#server_name_indication_sni https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl#server_name...
- Zaheer 12y ago
  Another note: You can host a static site on Heroku for free if you like as well. I have multiple on there.

23 points by jehna1 12y ago

I don't think the comparison is equal. You are comparing PAAS to IAAS, but AWS does have Elastic Beanstalk which would be a more direct comparison e.g. PAAS. Like App Engine, Elastic Beanstalk handles the auto scaling without having to setup and understand all the details around EC2.

jehna1 12y ago
You are quite right. Amazon does have different set of products that would also cover the pros of App Engine. I think the comparison is more of "PaaS vs. IaaS" than "AWS vs Google Cloud Platform".
- davismwfl 12y ago
  Yep, that seems fair. You made a number of valid points, looking at it from a PaaS vs. IaaS.
pacala 12y ago
Google has Google Compute Engine for their IAAS layer. https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine/ https://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine/
- jehna1 12y ago
  Yes, and the ManagedVM will work as a kind of middle-man between GAE and Compute Engine to give greater flexibility on configuration. For now, it's only in beta.

spindritf 12y ago

Personal note: I found the GAE quotas don't even count the static requests (static HTML + CSS). So this site should never cost me anything. And there are five free SNI slots, too, right? So... you can host a static site available over ssl completely for free on GAE?

jehna1 12y ago
Practically yes. I probably should add the SSL also and make a post of it.
lehtu 12y ago
Almost. SNI slots are free - Yes, but still you have to buy the SSL certificate from somewhere (cheapest are something like $8/year - https://www.ssls.com https://www.ssls.com)
- spindritf 12y ago
  If you can use any CA, you can get a free certificate from StartSSL https://startssl.com/ https://startssl.com/
- jehna1 12y ago
  And since SNI isn't legacy-compatible, Google itself recommends to "detect browsers that do not support SNI and recommend a browser that supports it" https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl#server_name_indication_sni https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl#server_name...
Zaheer 12y ago
Another note: You can host a static site on Heroku for free if you like as well. I have multiple on there.