Technology

Amazon EC2 and Google AppEngine

Hosting in the cloud -- that is, using virtual servers, or "slices" -- is a fast and economical alternative to using physical servers. For many applications, this is an attractive way to deploy quickly and inexpensively, while maintaining high performance and availability.

• Amazon EC2

  EC2 is a cloud computing solution offered by Amazon to complement their cloud storage system, S3. EC2 allows virtual servers to be created and administered quickly and easily from anywhere, and configurable security measures are provided to strictly limit access to your servers, individually or by group.

  Features

  • Nearly-instant creation of server instances
  • Auto-scaling facilities available
  • Unlimited (root) access to all of your instances
  • Free transfer with other AWS services, including S3
  • High worldwide availability

• Google App Engine

  App Engine is a framework and service provided by Google. App Engine provides a full suite of tools for developing web applications and deploying them out on the cloud. App Engine is great for getting a project off the ground fast. App Engine handles all the complexity with scaling and all deployment concerns.

  Features

  • Simplified deployment
  • Automatic scaling based on real-time needs
  • Free hosting when within quota
  • Google's Big Table database
  • Simplified integration with Google's API's

   

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