Google’s AppEngine looks great. It’s a way to build web applications and run them on Google’s “cloud” infrastructure.
The downside? Your applications effectively become Google’s applications because there’s no simple way to move them elsewhere. You have to run them using Google’s authentication engine, framework, file system, APIs, etc. etc. Free as in Google’s.
Enter Morph Labs.
[Morph] claims to have done all the back-end cutwork to make it easy for developers to get their software up and running as a service on Amazon’s Web Services (AWS), freeing them from Google’s Microsoft-like vendor lock-in….
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