Finally some reasonable communication, reasonable pricing models (extended discount) that don't penalize certain platform users (Python) over others (Java), better information on pricing and analysis of applications, reasonable free instance hours etc.

Keep this up and my rage will finally start to simmer down.

Now one thing that still hasn't been addressed is the following catch-22.

It's my understanding that in order to take advantage of scaling, user will have to pay a minimum $9/month (or whatever it is) fee. However, free users are resource capped. However, if you pay for scalability, but never need it for some reason, or only need it a couple times a year, you may as well have just stayed free -- otherwise you're out $108/year!

Still it's too bad that this pricing change and the charge-metrics are such a moving target, it's virtually impossible to figure out how to optimize for the change since any work somebody does to fix a 1000% price increase might go out the window tomorrow as pricing gets revised, or a metric gets changed (we've decided to measure electron transfer across system buses!).

This is a huge PR lesson -- heck this could be a 2 semester course! Google should have fixed the major pricing issues from the beginning, set a fixed target for people to work towards, been earlier with discounts and understanding language penalties, actually (shock) communicated with their developer base and done some actual price comparisons across their entire hosting environment to realize what a huge change this is introducing.

It's clear even Google didn't realize what a clusterfuck the new pricing model has introduced and Google's biggest problem, communication, has been the root of all the trouble.