Google App Engine

Tonight Google announced their answer to Amazon's EC2, S3 and SimpleDB.  Unlike Amazon's offering, which allows you to create a Linux instance and run anything you want, Google App Engine only runs apps written in Python, but in return it will automatically scale instead of making you use the API to start new instances.  There are also APIs for things like email and authentication.

The best part is the price - free.  (At least for now until your app gets large enough).

Thanks to Robert Scoble for streaming the event via Qik, even if Qik did crash and burn, presumably due to the large number of viewers (1722 last time I looked.)

Comments

[abm]

that's Python, Chris - Python. PHP and Ruby are sure to come. Python.

[Christopher Herot]

Thanks, Alan. I must have had PHP on the brain at that late hour.