Google takes on Amazon..

And no they’re not going to sell books.

What they are doing, as per their announcement today, is to offer a scalable locale where developers can create, run and grow their applications. They’re taking aim at Amazon and the web services crowd.

The engine includes;

  • Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
  • Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions)
  • Automatic scaling and load balancing
  • Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email
  • Fully featured local dev

So why would anyone do their own development infrastructure provisioning?

    1 Response to “Google takes on Amazon..”


    1. 1 Dan

      Will be interesting to watch this progress. Seems I was quick enough to get one of the first 10000 accounts. Now to come with an idea for a cool web app…

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