Google Makes an App Engine Pricing Move
September 2, 2011
Short honk: The price change may be nothing, but I think the shift should be documented. I read “Google Ups Pricing as App Engine Leaves Preview: Bait and Switch?” and noted this factoid:
While it’s undoubtedly true that there’s more than CPU to consider, the change in pricing seems to be leaving GAE users with sticker shock. Comparing pricing from one PaaS or cloud service provider to another’s has never been easy. But comparing Google’s old and new pricing is no easy matter either. Bandwidth prices have remained the same, but the switch from CPU time to instances makes it difficult to do the conversion. One response over on Hacker News indicates that the expected bill will go from $9 a month to $270 a month.
Is Google now taking steps to make its enterprise initiative generate more revenue? Is this pricing change an indication that other Google revenue sources are softening? Worth noting.
Stephen E Arnold, September 2, 2011
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