[mark_l_watson]

This service looks pretty good. After Google dropped Wave, I more or less stopped using AppEngine (useful for Wave robots). I think that their charging a higher price for AppEngine makes it look more appealing (because the service is less likely to be cancelled). Still I was pretty sure I would just go with my own servers and AWS in the future.

My opinion changed when I started working as a contractor at Google 2 months ago. I love the Google infrastructure, from inside the company. It is amazing (that is an understatement!). When my project is done next year and I go home, I am fairly sure that I will go back to using AppEngine, and other services for my own projects just out of nostalgia.

For the general public, I am not sure if the AppEngine and other Google services story is a good one though. It will be interesting to see how their market share for the PaaS does over the next few years.

[pcl]

What are the key differences between their internal services and what they provide via AppEngine etc.?