Azure App Service vs Google App Engine

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are a large organization where you have a lot of traffics, Azure is good for you. If your scenario is something like, you sometimes have high traffic, and sometimes low traffic, and you got enough money, Azure is good for scaling up to your need. Azure is definitely not for you if your budget is low. Not suitable for low budget people AT ALL.

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

E-Learning Company, 11-50 employees

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App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect.If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.

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Tristan Dobbs

Vice President of Shared Services

CloudbakersComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Azure App Service

Google App Engine

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Pros

It has options to deploy using CI/CD.
It has great integration with Azure Devops
It has all the common runtimes, so we don't need to install softwares.

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Rudolph Pereira

Team Lead

Avalon Information Systems Pvt. Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.

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Jonah Dempcy

Web & Mobile Developer

Bluefire ProductionsComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Jumps between resource sizes can get expensive
You may wind up putting a lot of eggs in one basket--not necessarily a con but something to keep in mind (most of your data will likely be managed and processed through Microsoft products/services if you fully commit to Azure App Service).
Learning new technology. If you're moving from on-premises to Azure App Service (or any cloud solutions), you'll likely have to rethink how things are done to achieve the same end results (and/or resources may become expensive quickly).

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Drew Harrison

Programmer

Wireless SolutionsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)

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Verified User

Consultant in Research & Development

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Google App Engine 8.3

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App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.

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Joshua Dickson

Director of Engineering

NorthOutComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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Google App Engine 7.6

Based on 9 answers

Google App Engine is very intuitive. It has the common programming language most would use. Google is a dependable name and I have not had issues with their servers being down....ever. You can safely use their service and store your data on their servers without worrying about downtime or loss of data.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Medical Devices Company, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Azure App Service 9.4

Based on 7 answers

I give the Azure App Service support an 8 instead of a 10 because there are time when it is easier to google a problem and find an answer than it is to use the learning library to find an answer. I would say the universe of user group members willing to offer suggestions is amazing.

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Richard Peterson

Global Webmaster

Broan-NuToneConsumer Goods, 1001-5000 employees

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Google App Engine 8.1

Based on 21 answers

Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Azure App Service will give you a very solid and strong platform to deploy your applications. It gives you great interfaces to manage those applications either through a Web Portal or the Azure command-line interface. However, I consider Azure overall to be very complex and hard for newcomers to use it right away. I would consider Heroku first due to its extremely simple interface and abstraction of computing units.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

It's difficult to find the right APP because one software has number of apps so there's no way to find the official version of an app, so sometimes we need to install APP then find out which is performing well.
Little expensive.

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sandeep singh

Magento Lead / Developer

HiddenComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.

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Paul Ford

Senior Principal

Trexin ConsultingManagement Consulting, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Azure App Service Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Google App Engine Editions & Modules

Edition

Starting Price	$0.05¹
Max Price	$0.30¹

Per Hour Per Instance

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Rating Summary

Azure App Service

Google App Engine

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Google App Engine

Likelihood to Recommend