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combine that with the fact that the High Replication Datastore will most probably never see a downtime and you tend to be ok with the cost (of course as a app engine customer, you would always want lower costs, but the current write cost is not a deal breaker).

The only problem here is that "delete" is considered a write and when you want to delete data you just cannot accept the fact that you need to pay for something you do not want to keep. I think GAE should definitely look into this aspect and try to get some cheaper alternatives for data deletion.