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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.

3 of 39 comments (clear)

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

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

  3. 10 years ago... by Gorimek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Run Google App Engine Apps On Amazon's Cloud"

    Not only would this sentence have been incomprehensible 10 years ago, but almost every single word in it would have been as well!

    These aren't boring times, people.