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Google App Engine [1] uses the search giant's vast infrastructure. App Engine applications are scalable, in terms of both processing and storage 

Users can serve application from their own domain name or a name from the appspot.com domain. You can share or limit access to your organization. 

App Engine supports Java and languages using a JVM-based interpreter or compiler, including JavaScript or Ruby. The runtime environment is Python, which includes a fast Python interpreter and the Python standard library. 

• Security: Applications run in a secure environment that provides limited access to the underlying operating system. Applications are isolated from  hardware, operating system and physical location of the web server.


• Agility: On-demand massive scaling; supports several programming languages.


• Cost elements
  • $0.10 per CPU core hour.
  • $0.10 per GB bandwidth incoming, $0.12 per GB bandwidth outgoing. $0.15 per GB of data stored by the application per month.
  • $0.0001 per email recipient for emails sent by the application.


• Biopharma suitability: Automatic scaling and load balancing; massive scaling.