Cloudy combo Google App Engine and Amazon S3 combo pack:

Google App Engine
provides you a ready to use
environment to build and host web applications. The hosting environment
is secure and made highly available by the google’s cloud computing
infrastructure.

While GAE provides you such a strong platform to build and host web
applications, it has it’s own limitations as well. While Google’s
infrastructure gives you abundant computing power but not the case with
storage which you would expect if you are developing web applications
which require a large amount of flexible secondary storage as well, for
that even the applications requiring moderate amount of secondary
storage to store the files.

Coming to the actual point, GAE has a limitation of allowing
applications to store not more than 10MB of a single large file on it’s
server. This may not be a problem for some of the web applications. This
is a serious issue for many web applications which assume sufficiently
large underlying storage, given these days secondary storage is
available in abundance at cheap rates. Some of the developers and users
are shying away from using GAE as a platform for their web application
development and hosting only because of this reason. And to make life
hard google does not have a paid service either to work around this
issue.

What are these web application developers supposed to do? Switch to
something else which offers sufficient storage along with computing
power. The other better options available are Amazon EC2 and VPS. Give
me a break. Why do we want to run away from the problem? Well, look
around. Amazing Amazon is there to help you out. We need to think
creatively and be selective when making decisions about technology these
days. There are a bunch of technologies lying around. It is just a
matter of selecting and integrating the two technologies and using them
to satisfy needs. I am not trying to promote any specific cloud here,
but to highlight the fact that GAE and Amazon S3 work really well. And
it turns out to be a cost effective solution.

GAE provides the development and hosting platform for you web
applications at free of cost while Amazon S3 provides you reliable,
powerful and abundant storage at cheaper rates. GAE and Amazon S3
together can do wonders.

Enough of theory, let me explain it to you with a practical example.

We, at BYGSoft
, had a requirement to develop a web
application for one of our clients. It was a simple web application
which will work as a download portal for it’s customers. We chose GAE as
a development and hosting platform for web application and Amazon S3 as
the back end storage.

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