Does anyone else have a bad taste in their mouth from Google App Engine and as such is wary of using Google services over Amazon?<p>It is probably irrational since App Engine has come a long way but I remember how Google generally treated their customers early on who were trying to adopt to their platform.
The competition Google is putting up in this space reminds me of a Ben Horowitz quote from Startup School (paraphrased):<p><i>You have to have a 10x better product to beat established competition.</i><p>Compute Engine has a long way to go to be 10x better than AWS. For most (including me) it's not just about storage and CPU units, it's things like VPC, SES, IAM, etc.
It seems Google's sole contribution to the PAAS wars is to keep Amazon's pricing in check. Does anyone here actually use Compute Engine? With Google's customer support story, I couldn't touch it with a barge pole.<p>I was an early convert to App Engine, ran screaming from that mess after 2 years of waiting to see the light, there was no light.