Google lets more users host App Engine applications in Europe

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Google is letting more App Engine users choose to run their applications in a European data center, in order to improve performance for local users or to meet compliance demands.

App Engine is Google’s cloud-based platform for hosting Web applications written using Java, Python or an experimental implementation of the Go programming language. The ability to host applications in Europe was first announced in June, but was then only offered to users with a so-called Premier account, which cost $500 per month. Google is now changing that to include all paying users, the company said in a blog post on Thursday…

Each App Engine application can consume some resources for free, and users who need more have to switch to a paid app which costs from $2.10 per week. The location of data and network latency in reaching it are important to developers, and Google is planning to let even more users host their applications in Europe in the coming months, it said…

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