Google App Engine - Need Without Invitation

Today, Google just announced that they are opening the App Engine for developers, without invitation and the expected pricing for the service in near future. As I mentioned previously about the Google App Engine which allows you to create web applications and host them on the Google's servers; and I'd been waiting to get an invitation some time, too. Unfortunately, you need to verify your account by entering a code sent to your mobile phone.

Google App Engine only supports Python language at the moment and; offers the free quota of 500 MB of storage and around 5 millions pageviews per month for free. But the developers may able to purchase more computing resources sometime this year and here are the expected prices from Google:

• $0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour
• $0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month of storage
• $0.11 - $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
• $0.09 - $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth

There are two new APIs that Google provides these from the feedback, the image manipulation API and the Memcache API.

The image manipulation API enables developers to resize, rotate, flip, crop and enhance images using the same infrastructure used in Picasa Web Albums. With the images API you can perform common image related tasks like thumbnailing images via a simple interface. For more information about the images API, please see our documentation.

The Memcache API is a high-performance caching layer designed to make page rendering faster by reducing datastore queries and improving the performance of your application. The Memcache API was written by Brad Fitzpatrick, the same developer who created memcached, a caching layer that is used in some of the world's most popular web applications, and is compatible with memcached implementations. Please see our documentation for more information about the Memcache API.

Reference from Google App Engine Blog.