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+1  Q: 

Cloud Monthly Pricing Calculator

Amazon did a great job by providing an online calculator for AWS; resides here: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

Which really helps to find your way among a swarm of cloud options.

Is there similar a tool for GAE (Google App Engine) or Microsoft Azure?

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Not that I'm aware of. Of course, lacking tiered pricing, calculating costs for App Engine is very straightforward - just multiply expected usage by cost-per-unit for each of the 5 dimensions.

Nick Johnson  2009-10-10 17:54:12
We are investigating cloud solutions and the problem is there are so much diversion in both definition of a cloud based system and it's implementation. My 1st guess is it is not proper for our problem (for example I need to listen on a port for incoming data 24/7), yet I am in charge to find out if cloud could solve any of our problems (up-time, distributed data centers, ...). So far I think cloud is not mature enough to be used in real world and I am studying private cloud solutions (implementing our system in Erlang maybe? or using VMWare or Xen?). Honestly I am a bit lost and out of focus!
Kaveh Shahbazian  2009-10-11 22:50:54
You can't use App Engine to 'listen on a port' - only for HTTP and XMPP requests. Amazon's EC2 may suit your needs, though.
Nick Johnson  2009-10-12 09:59:47
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For Windows Azure, stay tuned... our commercial launch is just next month (at PDC09).

smarx  2009-10-12 17:44:22
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Microsoft will have a calculator and other tools around PDC. newdesic has a tool that you can use - http://azureroi.cloudapp.net/

ashish jaiman  2009-10-12 20:22:37

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