DISQUS

Luke Hoersten · 1 year ago

Your article definitely touched on something I haven't: like you said, Google App Engine "is not innovative over Amazon’s offering." Amazon offers not only a scalable database (SDB) but also the elastic computing cloud (EC2). Google App Engine is really only just a scalable database. You can't do large scale computation on it like you can with EC2. So it should be noted that GAE is only competing with Amazon's SDB, not EC2 or S3.

Roger Kondrat · 1 year ago

Good point Luke. Sorry it took me so long to reply, I published just before I went to sleep. :)

I am glad you think it touched on something different though as that was my intention.

Santosh · 1 year ago

I will think this is Google's approach to enter into market. Google knows for sure that Amazon is ahead in Cloud computing, however to create new customer base and build solution for them based on their need is a better strategy than jumping into cloud computing overnight.

Google always creates a massive buzz when they do something and makes competitor wonder "is Google coming to my industry?"

I sense this is a one step a time approach; with Google's proven infrastructure, nano clustering capabilities, they will enter into Cloud computing one day.