Run Google App Engine Apps On Amazon's Cloud

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.

amazon adds permanent storage functionality to EC2

[centinall]

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

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

Google App Engine Virtual Appliance

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a free virtual appliance available for development purposes: Google AppEngine JumpBox [jumpbox.com]

Re:Not even close

[Anonymous Coward]

http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html [google.com]
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Re:Does this service provide BigTable?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.