Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine

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Published on 2009-04-26T19:30:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 10:43 UTC
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From a developer point of view which platform would you consider for a large social web application? If you could provide some details on what you consider to be the strengths of which alternative it would be great.

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