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I am currently deciding whether to use EC2 or GAE for my django app. I've done some research on both. In terms of deploying a database-driven django app with the following:

-- high on db reads / moderate db writes in mysql
-- memcached
-- ffmpeg (though not for video transcoding)

what are the pros / cons of each? My main considerations are:

-- ease of setting up
-- ease of scaling up /down
-- speed (for EC2 this is easy to figure out)
-- uptime

Additionally, how would they compare in cost with GAE's recent increases? Thank you.

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Update: After I wrote this answer, Google announced support for their own hosted version of MySQL named Google Cloud SQL. Wooble also points out that Google supports memcached as well.

If you need to run MySQL and memcached then you can't use GAE. GAE does provide it's own data store API if you can convert to using that: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/

You can't run ffmpeg on GAE. I don't know if there is any pure Python implementation of such functionality. See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6872388/

All of this can be done on EC2 as you're just running standard Linux (or Windows) servers and installing and configuring your own software.

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    App Engine has memcache; in fact, Brad Fitzpatrick (founder of Livejournal, where he invented memcached) has worked on the App Engine team. – Wooble Oct 04 '11 at 01:16
  • Wooble: Thanks for the correction. I was answering on the edge of what I know about and will move back towards the center of my areas of expertise :-) – Eric Hammond Oct 05 '11 at 23:12