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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google App Engine

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

    $0.05

    Per Hour Per Instance

    Podman

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/APodman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux Systems. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is open source and free, supported and maintained by the Containers organization, with code available from GitHub.N/A
    Pricing
    Google App EnginePodman
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $0.05
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Max Price
    $0.30
    Per Hour Per Instance
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google App EnginePodman
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google App EnginePodman
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
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    Features
    Google App EnginePodman
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Google App Engine and Podman.io
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    9.5
    32 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Podman.io
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    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Google App Engine and Podman.io
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Podman.io
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google App EnginePodman
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google App EnginePodman
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
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    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Google App EnginePodman
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    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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    Open Source
    While it always depends on your use case, I believe security concerns of need for root user is a concern, so it is worth considering daemonless container service over Docker, which works just as good and has support for docker compose. Another good reason is the licensing for enterprise usage, which podman has no restrictions for. It’s also a great choice for OpenShift integration, which is seamless and works well with Rancher as well.
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    Pros
    Google
    • 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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    Open Source
    • It’s daemonless, so somewhat more secure.
    • It works exceptionally well and is compatible with Docker compose
    • Podman Desktop actually makes individual usage also pretty easy.
    • It can be used as Docker alternative with almost no additional steps
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    Cons
    Google
    • 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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    Open Source
    • Podman desktop is getting more stable with each version, but does need more UX friendliness as well.
    • Official support for development tools and IDEs is missing for most tools
    • It works well with Kubernetes, but I wouldn’t mind additional improvements
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    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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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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    Open Source
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    Support Rating
    Google
    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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    Open Source
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    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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    Open Source
    Podman is Daemonless, lightweight and doesn’t charge us for commercial usage, so it’s a relief for startups. Minikube and Rancher are a bit more complex for our use cases; so we keep things simple, fast and secure with Podman that can easily be managed with Podman Desktop and other works with our docker-compose based projects without issues.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • 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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    Open Source
    • We definitely feel more secure.
    • We do not suffer from memory or cpu overuses as it uses fedora coreOS which is lightweight
    • We do not have to worry about license payments for our basic usages.
    • It’s open source so quick fixes imminent with maximum transparency.
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