Google App Engine vs Amazon AWS (Score 1)

[1] Amazon still continues to have stability problems. An 8 hour outage for S3 - a service that's supposed to provide 99.99% up time? It seems like Amazon is still working through some of the problems associated with scaling on a massive level. Google has already solved those problems. [2] If your user base is not all in the US I don't think amazon can compete in any way with google's network of data centers. [3] Amazon aws has a different pricing model and approach than App Engine. But I think google will ultimately be cheaper. If you're only using ec2 then it might be harder to call. But certainly if you add in S3 + SimpleDB, Amazon looks to be more expensive. [4] Amazon provides a platform that allows you to scale, but does not do all the scaling for you. If you just want to create an app and concentrate 100% on features App Engine wins hands down. [5] I personally prefer the App Engine environment - python rocks, the console rocks, it's easy to write code, it's easy to deploy, it's easy to role back to previous versions etc. I still find it hard to believe that amazon doesn't have better tools for their services. There's a bunch of great tools created by the community for AWS. But it seems like at every level Google tried to make it as simple as possible to deploy massively scalable apps. Amazon provides some services and hopes the community does the rest.