Google to Compete with Amazon S3 Web Service
Posted by jonathan at 11:18pm EST on 04/07/2008
Just a few moments ago, at 12:00am PST, Google launched its Google App Engine platform which will be a direct competitor to Amazon’s S3 service.
Amazon S3: “Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.”
Google App Engine: “Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications.”
Right now, you can visit the page and login, but there is a waiting list. “Unfortunately, space is limited during Google App Engine’s preview release. As we expand, we’ll invite more developers, but for now you’ll have to wait.”
But wait…or rather don’t wait, there is already an SDK for developers to start using. The platform itself is not fully ready for normal registration, but the SDK should help give developers a head start.
There are plenty of more details on the hosted Google Code page that you can take a look at.
So what will Google really be hoping to accomplish with this new service? Scalability, usability, and ease of use. “Google App Engine makes it easy to design scalable applications that grow from one to millions of users without infrastructure headaches.”
Overall, it’s going to be an exciting tool for developers to use with seamless Google integration.
[Thanks Michael]
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Armenian Translit
May 2nd, 2008
Sounds great, really. But not very practical. As Amazon S3 is for couple of years on the market now. And take the price of the service in consideration too. I don’t think Google will give it for free, at least not this time.
Jonathan Dingman
May 2nd, 2008
Actually, I feel Google will indeed offer it for free. They have more storage than they know what to do with.
What better use of it than to offer a free service to the public which will let them dominate the market even more.
It will also help them capture a lot more data out there and remain as the “owners” of the data.
Basically, just another service you can use Google for.
But I could be completely wrong.
Armenian Translit
May 3rd, 2008
Well, maybe you are even right. Look at their Blogger and Googlepages services, both are 100% free. There are also other non-Google companies on the market that give 100% free Apache+PHP+MySQL hosting w/o any forced banners or so. Let’s just wait and see, the future comes fast enough.
Jonathan Dingman
May 5th, 2008
Right, exactly head on. Google offers a lot of products for free, only a select few you actually need to pay for, and this helps Google obtain and retain massive amounts of data which I can only assume they use internally for marketing strategies.