Google App Engine Leaving Challenges For Amazon & Microsoft

  • Qurratulain Akhtar 6:09 am on April 8, 2008 Comments
    Tags: amazon, developers, google app, microsoft, web development

    appenginegif.jpgGoogle announced App Engine at its CampFire One developer event on April 7 which will work not only as hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform as reported by ZDNet. It’s free to start with 500MB of storage and 5 million monthly page views, this offer is, however, limited for first 10,000 developers that’s all been taken up till now.

    Google has always been making things simple and so will App Engine do. Very simple as compared to Amazon, Google App Engine lets developers to run their entire application on Google resources. Google says that:

    The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance. Leveraging Google App Engine, developers can:
    Write code once and deploy
    Absorb spikes in traffic
    Easily integrate with other Google services.

    Google is on the way to maintain its lead, leaving challenges for Amazon and Microsoft.

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