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Run Google App Engine Apps On Amazon's Cloud

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 14, 2008 @11:30AM 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.