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By itself, Google App Engine is not a competitor to Facebook’s platform. Perhaps comparing it to Amazon’s web services isn’t great either — it’s not 1:1. But Facebook is about tapping into a user base and leverage their social graph. App Engine is about hosting apps (which, by the way, Facebook doesn’t do). In fact, App Engine might turn out to be a great place to host Facebook applications.
Someday, something like App Engine + data portability (Google Social Graph API?) might leech into Facebook territory… but that’s not what App Engine on its own is all about.