Google App Engine

recently did a beta launch announcement for their application hosting service called App Engine. The service once launched and successful may be a big blow for some of the other players in the application hosting or services market. Other players in the market include the likes of Amazon with their AWS.

According to ’s App Engine blog, during the preview period, the App Engine will be offered with 500MB of storage, 200 M megacycles of CPU, 10GB bandwidth per day - FREE!

That is a lot of hosting power and can run high traffic sites with millions of uniques per month.

also offers following developer services as part of this:

  • 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
  • APIs for authenticating users and sending email
  • Fully featured local development environment

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