Google App Engine vs Amazon Web Services [closed]

Question

If you were a one developer startup, which service would you pick and why? If the goal is to get to market really fast.

Would you go with GAE and build everything from scratch on Python, and one click deploy? or pick AWS, setup the server and db, use Rails, and do some admin work?

Answer 1

The lack of administration and the pay-as-you-go cost structure makes GAE ideal for starting out. You will probably be able to service a reasonable number of users before you even run out of free quota.

There are two main issues though:

• Migrating off GAE will be painful
• At the moment I'm experiencing datastore failures in about 0.3% of all datastore reads. If this is a problem you need to armor against it.