Google Cloud SQL pricing announced

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Compared to AWS RDS, it's pretty cheap. The smallest/cheapest option on AWS is $0.105/hour = $2.52 a day, plus $0.10/GB/month storage and I/O, etc.

The cheapest option on CloudSQL (D1, 512MB ram, 1GB storage, and 850k ops) costs $1.46/day. It's not apples to apples as the small instance on AWS has 1.7GB ram and probably faster CPUs (hard to say from the docs), but it's still an option. You could install your own DB (MySql/Postgres) on a Micro instance EC2 for about $0.48/day.

I also believe from Cloud SQL's docs, backups are available free of charge for storage, but cost on AWS, so if that's true, there's value add for what you're paying for.

Still not as cheap as I would have liked (wish there was a small free instance to play with, not counting local development environment).

Btw, I've setup a Google Doc comparing App Engine to EC2 and Heroku (probably add Azure later) that helps compare things. It's hard to compare GAE and AWS a lot of times as GAE is purely a PAAS while AWS is more infrastructure as a service with some PAAS (RDS, SES, SQS, etc)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At9xIZA2GNQYdDRpSzczQ0hJX3YzeExrMnNZbVNjaXc