App Engine 1.6 out with Python 2.7, Map/Reduce in the SDK

From my POV google app engine is still the only PaaS offering that can scale the data-tier. Scaling the application instances is a lot easier and most other PaaS providers struggle with that too.<p>I think if you look at the big picture GAE is as good as it gets at the moment and there is quite a gap to the second place when it comes to automatic scaling.<p>Am I missing something? Disclaimer: we are very happy and excited GAE customers with <a href="https://blossom.io" rel="nofollow">https://blossom.io</a>

Python 2.7 may be present in the SDK (which is great!), but it's still in experimental mode:<p>"Unfortunately, being on the bleeding edge means that we may make backwards-incompatible changes. We will inform the community once the Python 2.7 runtime is no longer experimental."<p><a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/python27/newin27.html" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/python27/newin2...</a>.

I guess nobody is interested in (or hates) App Engine anymore after pricing plan changes. That's what I think due to no comments in such a post.

Map/Reduce is still horrible. Python 2.7 is a much awaited addition

They have released a full MapReduce framework for Python, but still no SSL support?<p>Are they serious?