Google 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 cloud computing services market. Other players in the market include the likes of Amazon with their AWS.

According to Google’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.

Google 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

Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email

Fully featured local development environment

What others are saying

• HuddleChat and 37Signals Campfire chat application rip-off controversy at Read/Write Web.
• Google Blogosoped makes some interesting points about how Google wins from this service.
• Computer World and TheRegister made announcements about the service earlier.
• Techcrunch talks about Google BigTable service which powers the App Engine.

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Tags: Cloud Computing, Google, Google App Engine, Internet Services, Products and Services

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