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Likelihood to Recommend
CloudFoundry
It's well suited if:
- The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
- The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
- The organization has programs in different languages.
- The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
- The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
- The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Google App Engine
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.
Vice President of Shared Services
CloudbakersComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Platform-as-a-Service
CloudFoundry
9.8
Google App Engine
8.2
Ease of building user interfaces
CloudFoundry
10.0
Google App Engine
8.3
Scalability
CloudFoundry
9.0
Google App Engine
9.0
Development environment creation
CloudFoundry
10.0
Google App Engine
8.9
Development environment replication
CloudFoundry
10.0
Google App Engine
8.6
Issue recovery
CloudFoundry
10.0
Google App Engine
8.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
CloudFoundry
10.0
Google App Engine
8.3
Platform management overhead
CloudFoundry
—
Google App Engine
8.0
Workflow engine capability
CloudFoundry
—
Google App Engine
7.3
Platform access control
CloudFoundry
—
Google App Engine
7.7
Services-enabled integration
CloudFoundry
—
Google App Engine
7.7
Issue monitoring and notification
CloudFoundry
—
Google App Engine
8.0
Pros
CloudFoundry
- Support for Orgs and Spaces that allow for managing users and deployables within a large organization.
- Easy deployment, deploying code is as simple as executing single line from CLI, thanks to build-packs.
- Solid and rich CLI, that allows for various operations on the instance.
- Isolated Virtual Machines called Droplets, that provide clean run time environment for the code. This used to be a problem with Weblogic and other application servers, where multiple applications are run on the same cluster and they share resources.
- SSH capability for the droplet (isolated VM's are called droplets), that allows for real time viewing of the App code while the application is running.
- Support for multiple languages, thanks to build-packs.
- Support for horizontal scaling, scaling an instance horizontally is a breeze.
- Support for configuring environment variable using the service bindings.
- Supports memory and disk space limit allocation for individual applications.
- Supports API's as well as workers (processes without endpoints)
- Supports blue-green deployment with minimal down time
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Google App Engine
- 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.
Web & Mobile Developer
Bluefire ProductionsComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Cons
CloudFoundry
- Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
- Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Google App Engine
- 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)

Verified User
Consultant in Research & Development
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employeesLikelihood to Renew
CloudFoundry
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Google App Engine
Google App Engine 8.3
Based on 8 answers
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.
Director of Engineering
NorthOutComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Usability
CloudFoundry
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Google App Engine
Google App Engine 7.7
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Medical Devices Company, 1-10 employeesSupport Rating
CloudFoundry
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Google App Engine
Google App Engine 8.1
Based on 19 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.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employeesAlternatives Considered
CloudFoundry
While Docker shines in providing support for volumes and stateful instances, Cloud foundry shines in providing support for deploying stateless services.Heroku shines in integrating with Git and using commits to git as hooks to trigger deployments right from the command line. But it does not provide on-premise solution that Cloud foundry provides.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Google App Engine
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.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesReturn on Investment
CloudFoundry
- Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
- Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
- Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Google App Engine
- 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.
Senior Principal
Trexin ConsultingManagement Consulting, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
CloudFoundry
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
CloudFoundry Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Google App Engine
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Google App Engine Editions & Modules
Edition
Starting Price | $0.051 |
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Max Price | $0.301 |
- Per Hour Per Instance