http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/04/08/google-app-engine-not-really-an-aws-competitor/ Kevin Dangoor on Technology, Business and Everything Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:32:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/04/08/google-app-engine-not-really-an-aws-competitor/#comment-208535 Rick Harding Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:12:02 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/04/08/google-app-engine-not-really-an-aws-competitor/#comment-208535 I thought the same thing. They're really two different kinds of services. One gives you a whole OS and you can fire up/shut down servers. The other is a web only platform. I mean, no writing to the local filesystem and such. Very interesting though. Wonder how many web devs would start up something and be able to drop the sysadmin stuff behind. Think of things like the 37Signals apps on here vs your own server farm. I thought the same thing. They’re really two different kinds of services. One gives you a whole OS and you can fire up/shut down servers. The other is a web only platform. I mean, no writing to the local filesystem and such. Very interesting though. Wonder how many web devs would start up something and be able to drop the sysadmin stuff behind. Think of things like the 37Signals apps on here vs your own server farm.

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