Google App Engine Launches: Goes Directly After Amazon

MG at VentureBeat has details on a new product launch tonight from Google called the "Google App Engine" (link will work after midnight). MG notes, "With this new release, Google is aiming squarely at Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically the popular Simple Storage Service (S3), SimpleDB and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services."

The first 10,000 developers to signup using the link above at midnight will get access to the Google App Engine. The accounts come with enough free power to handle up to five million pageviews a month. Pricing past that has not been release as of yet. You know it's the crack model - give them a bit for free so they get hooked for life.

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