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		ryanwaggoner on Dec 17, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google App Engine Pricing Model It seems that for many programmers, Python-only is just another limitation in that list. Sure you can learn Python, just like there are ways to work around a lot of the other issues, but I would think that all of these limitations add up to discourage programmers from building small apps as an experiment. Learning Python just to use GAE seems dumb when you can just use EC2.

blasdel on Dec 17, 2008 [–]

EC2 is nothing like App Engine, the only thing that relates them is that their logos are placed in cloud clipart together on powerpoint slides.

App Engine is an abstract distributed REST machine. EC2 is just x86 VMs (albeit with nice provisioning APIs).

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