Scalable web applications – Google App Engine and Amazon S3
Google announced today the beta release of Google App Engine. This application engine is designed to facilitate the quick development and deployment of new web apps. They only released it to the first 10,000 people to sign up, but I'm sure that will expand before too long. This service seems to be in competition with Amazon S3. I think these are really exciting developments, even though I'm not so sure I'll be using them anytime soon. Essentially, they both allow really cheap storage and processing for all your web applications, and they scale with you. At least, Google's will eventually...starting out they are offering 500Mb per month of storage space and 5 million page views for free with pay service and expandability to come at some point. Amazon S3 is a pay service from the start, but the prices are really quite cheap.