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Comparing Google’s App Engine with Amazon EC2

An excellent graphical comparison between Google’s App Engine and Amazon EC2. Google seems to offer a better whole product solution that Amazon EC2 because of their ability to leverage on web frameworks, toolkits and their social graphs.

Amazon seems to be stronger on the infrastructure side - The flexibility to integrate with most client-side codes (as opposed to Google’s sole support for Python) and their S3 + SimpleDB database.

How Google App Engine Stacks up to Amazon EC2

With the platform-as-a-service revolution getting into full swing, developers (especially in start-ups) have more options for creating and deploying applications without the hassle and more extreme cost of setting up and maintaining infrastructure.Dion Hinchcliffe at ZDNet compares Amazon’s approach to providing infrastructure services to Google’s. He found that Amazon’s set of services is more flexible but not as integrated as Google’s App Engine.