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Run Google App Engine Apps On Amazon's Cloud

Posted by kdawson on from the ionized-path-between-the-clouds dept.

jamie found a post laying to rest one potential criticism of Google's App Engine, that of the danger of lock-in to the platform. Waxy.org points out a hack called AppDrop, written by Chris Anderson, that provides a container for Google App SDK applications, running entirely on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. Here's Anderson's AppDrop page and his blog post announcing it.

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  1. amazon adds permanent storage functionality to EC2 by centinall · · Score: 5, Informative

    On a related note, amazon adds permanent storage functionality to EC2:

    http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/04/block-to-the-fu.html

  2. Google App Engine Virtual Appliance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a free virtual appliance available for development purposes: Google AppEngine JumpBox

  3. Re:Not even close by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html
    ?

  4. Re:Does this service provide BigTable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Read the article. No it doesn't support BigTable. It uses a flat data file on 1 server. It also doesn't support Google authentication services.