Comments on: Google App Engine vs Windows Azure

By: Sharma Anil

Sharma Anil — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:46:22 +0000

Looks like an old article. However, there are factual errors.
1. AppEngine supports 50MB blobs in its blobstore.
2. AppEngine supports JVM class of languages not alone Java in that category.
3. AppEngine free account storage is 1GB, B/w is 1GB out and 1GB in, 6.5 Cpu Hours and 2000 emails/day
In reality, where the author has opined a tie, hard to compare are win features on Google App Engine.

Warm regards.

By: Cloud War

Cloud War — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:01:44 +0000

I had a go at GAE and it impresses me, a lot. Now it does have few weaknesses, like language support (natively, not thru VM) and datastore's max 1000 data retrieval.
On the other hand, since I am a long time .Net developer.. it should be that Azure Platform is my first choice. However, I am reconsidering base on two important factors! 1. Pricing (google's pricing is so competitive) 2. Reliability (now, this is only my personal opinion but I trust google in this area)

By: Danny Tuppeny

Danny Tuppeny — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:12:28 +0000

I posed a comparison of the prices of Azure and App Engine on my blog. App Engine works out way cheaper, and it's free to get started (up to a limit). If you're not partial to one of the technologies, it looks like Google is the way to go:

http://blog.dantup.me.uk/2009/12/microsoft-wind...

By: Washington citizen

Washington citizen — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:11:27 +0000

U suck! You must be paid my m$

By: matix

matix — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:45:22 +0000

you wrote: “AppEngine restricts total storage to be less than 500mb” that is not true; limit is 1GB;

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By: Taranfx

Taranfx — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:53:22 +0000

Usually people would argue they are not even comparable but this comparison tells you what exactly is the purpose of each. There is no winner or loser in actual.

By: Rajesh Kanuri

Rajesh Kanuri — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:23:56 +0000

Azure is very nice..

By: kripken

kripken — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:52:09 +0000

1. You can run other languages on App Engine – anything that runs on the JVM will work. Like Ruby (JRuby) etc.

2. “AppEngine offers distributed caching using Memcache. I *heard* Azure *plans* to include Velocity. [...] Winner: Hard to compare” [emphasis mine] No, that doesn't look hard to compare at all – it's a clear win for App Engine.

By: webdesigningvancouver

webdesigningvancouver — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:11:51 +0000

Very nice competency. I feel as comparing windows azure Google's app engine is more powerful. What u think?

By: Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:04:40 +0000

Azure has two storage methods. In addition to the blob/table in Windows Azure, you can also use SQL Azure databases. These databases use T-SQL, giving you most of the power you would expect from SQL Server.

By: Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:02:49 +0000

Windows Azure Pricing:

•Compute = $0.12 / hour
•Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
•Storage transactions = $0.01 / 10K
•Data transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing/

By: rodrigo moraes

rodrigo moraes — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:06:18 +0000

Azure is AWS powered by Microsoft (but on AWS you get even more server options). There are other players in the field – Rackspace also has offerings similar to AWS/Azure.

App Engine, on the other hand, is very unique because they offer a restricted environment that scales automatically. None of the other players offer this – they offer “server instances” on demand, so, in a sense, it is the same as keeping your own datacenter – without having to take care of the datacenter hardware & network – but still having to manage it. The uniqueness in App Engine is that it doesn't require any server management – and this also explains why they had to restrict the environment that much.

By: Marko

Marko — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:41:15 +0000

Google APP Engine is using Python and Java Virtual Machine. There are more languages that run on top of JVM, not only Java but also Scala, Groovie or JRuby can be used (with some restrictions).

By: rodrigo moraes

rodrigo moraes — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:16:35 +0000

You should compare Azure vs. Amazon Web Services, since they are more close. App Engine is a completely different thing to compare one by one like this.