Google App Engine

“For a small enterprise with appropriate software engineer the ROI is excellent because the cost of GAE usage is very low compare to the quatity of information it can process in a day to day basis.”

“It has a "PyCharm Free Educational (Classroom) License" for free.

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“Google App Engine is expensive in the long run and cost adds up pretty quickly.”

“It is not the most cost-efficient hosting provider and could continue to improve from a cost basis Google's UI can be confusing for newcomers when managing an App Engine deployment. … It's particularly suited to developers with standard needs (e.g. nothing so sophisticated that manual server management would be necessary) who value the simplicity over deeper customizability.”

“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... … Sub-minute billing has reduced the cost of using another Cloud platform when times of heavy activity would have increased our costs unnecessarily.”

“It's much more expensive to use Amazon EC2 to scale to over a million users. … The auto-scaling feature of the engine can save you a lot of embarrassment and expensive bug fixing.”

“Multiple backend frameworks to choose from Reasonable pricing and generous free quotas Scalability.”

“Instance pricing of Standard Environment could be lowered, since it wasn't updated for many years. … It has a free tier so it's very useful for non-yet-existing startups.”

“Go for cheaper options such as compute engine or AWS (be sure to do your research on pricing and features comparison).”

“We were able to release a cost savings of over 50K in a six month period based on not having to acquire hardware and adding support.”