Google App System
By Azam on April 8, 2008The Google machine announces the launch of Google App Engine to power up web applications on Google hosted server cloud. The service takes advantage of Google internally developed technology used in their own apps running on Python such as BigTable and GFS. The service offering directly compete with Amazon cloud computing Amazon Web Services such as Simple Storage Service S3, Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, and SimpleDB. The main difference between the two, Google App System is an all encompassing solution, and Amazon is offering services a la cart solutions for users. Google may have an advantage with its proprietary systems with a closer integration of hardware and software with large geographical deployment.
Google Universe
Google is currently offering the service for free with some limitations: size of app, traffic limit, files size handled, and currently running on python to name a few. Google App will evolve and open up to more powerful system with increased capabilities in a number of fronts. Google App is quite attractive with large ecosystems of API that will be integrated to web app being developed: Search, Maps, Images, Video, Open Social, Android, Ads, etc.
It will be interesting to see how the Google App System plays out. The system was highly anticipated for Google to launch web service as better way to integrate with uses and take advantage of the impressive investment hardware and software capabilities. Amazon has already more than 300,000 developers using the Amazon web services platform and would likely expect competition in the promising field of web services. Next, we would likely expect Microsoft to enter the fray with their own offering and they have been talking of web services and developed a language and architecture based around the premise for the enterprise with com technologies as example.
The Fine Print
Google is offering Google APP System for free to the first 10,000 developers to sign up. The service service encompasses a fully scalable Web platform with Python-based application servers (currently) , GFS (Google File System), and BigTable data storage system at its core.
Limits
Google will allow developers to serve up to three applications on App Engine, each with a cap of 500MB of storage and 10GB of bandwidth traffic per day, which is estimated to handle 5 million pages per month.
Note The slots are already taken and users interested can put their name on waiting list
Categories : TechTags : Amazon, BigTable, Cloud Computing, EC2, GFS, Google, S3, SimpleDB, Web Services