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The Amazon suite of web services has been available for some time with an impressive uptake. The S3 product went down for a while earlier this year and made more obvious the role that they are playing in the newer generation web when looking at the amount of users that complained about the outage.

Google is now jumping on the bandwagon with an offering that may not be as flexible as the services offered by Amazon, but solid none the less.

Unlike Amazon Web Services’ loosely coupled architecture, which consists of several essentially independent services that can optionally be tied together by developers, Google’s architecture is more unified but less flexible. For example, it is possible with Amazon to use their storage service S3 independently of any other services, while with Google using their BigTable service will require writing and deploying a Python script to their app servers, one that creates a web-accessible interface to BigTable.

You can read the rest of the article over at TechCrunch. It’s going to be interesting to see what comes next as both Google and Amazon try and differenciate their services from the disconcerning user.

UPDATE

TechCrunch have a new article covering the creation of their first app using the Google App Engine.