>Frankly I cant even begin to think why anyone would recommand Appengine to anybody.
It's awesome for tiny things where the free quota is enough.
I have about 15 small app engine web apps, most written in python/flask, that are mostly used either only by me or maybe by some of my friends. All small websites, web apps or tools with a few hundred loc each.
The datastore APIs are nice and simple if you don't need much, it's easy to deploy, no management, easy APIs for stuff like cron jobs etc. and completely free with no way to accidentally incur costs. I haven't found anything better for that.
AWS has most free tiers only for 1 year and if you accidentally go over the monthly free tier it costs you something.
With heroku (or openshift) you need to set up and manage stuff like databases, memcache and many of the useful APIs appengine provides yourself.
While I can totally see many use cases where GAE is bad, for small free web apps its really nice and by far the best thing I'm aware of.
It's awesome for tiny things where the free quota is enough. I have about 15 small app engine web apps, most written in python/flask, that are mostly used either only by me or maybe by some of my friends. All small websites, web apps or tools with a few hundred loc each.
The datastore APIs are nice and simple if you don't need much, it's easy to deploy, no management, easy APIs for stuff like cron jobs etc. and completely free with no way to accidentally incur costs. I haven't found anything better for that.
AWS has most free tiers only for 1 year and if you accidentally go over the monthly free tier it costs you something. With heroku (or openshift) you need to set up and manage stuff like databases, memcache and many of the useful APIs appengine provides yourself.
While I can totally see many use cases where GAE is bad, for small free web apps its really nice and by far the best thing I'm aware of.