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Google Announces App Engine Pricing and New APIs

By Scott Gilbertson May 28, 2008 Categories: Platforms & APIs, Programming

App EngineAs part of its ongoing I/O developer event, Google has announced a pricing plan for those looking to build and host sites on the company’s App Engine platform.

Google App Engine, which allows developers to build and host Python-based web applications, is still in a testing phase, but when the service hits prime time later this year developers will be able to purchase additional storage space and bandwidth as needed.

Currently App Engine offers 500 MB of storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month for free. Those numbers will remain unchanged, but if you need more storage and bandwidth you’ll be able to buy it.

The prices are roughly comparable to Amazon’s S3 service, here’s the breakdown from Google’s press release:

  • $0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour
  • $0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month of storage
  • $0.11 - $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
  • $0.09 - $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth

Perhaps more interesting for developers is the announcement of two new App Engine APIs. One allows for image manipulation (crop, scale, rotate, etc) and the other puts the memcached cache engine at your disposal.

Given that App Engine is written in Python using the Django framework, it seems likely that the image API will offer most of the things you’ll find in PIL (and is, we suspect, powered by PIL).

Also welcome news for developers: App Engine is now open to anyone. More than 150,000 developers have joined the waiting list over the past 6 weeks but only about half of those people have been given access. If you’ve been on the waiting list, today is your day.

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