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What is Google App Engine?

Google 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.

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Good PaaS Platform with Great Support

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 22, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
It's one of the best serverless platforms we used so far. We created a small web application on it to use as ATS and also set up an email server which worked very well with go...
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Naresh Chaudhary
Team Lead - Human Resources
Staff Engineer
Exarca
Google App Engine5 years of experience

App creation and management goodness.

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 1, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our organization uses Google App Engine for writing, deploying and testing the code as it requires minimal configuration for testing of code and the code gets covered even in ...
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Verified user
Engineer
Google App Engine2 years of experience

Google App Engine - perfect for any app looking to modernize!

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 10, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We have one significant web application. It is used by our entire R&D team across multiple departments as the primary platform for data analysis. We currently have our web...
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Cameron Gable
Engineer - Research & Development
Software Engineer III
Serimmune Inc.
Google App Engine3 years of experience

Great for small teams

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 2, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We're using Google App Engine to build and host our web application and backend across the organization. This helps us in building a highly scalable applications on a fully ma...
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Verified user
Engineer
Google App Engine3 years of experience

Google App Engine - Easy deployment with no manageability

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 27, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
[Google App Engine] was used by one department for serving various backend APIs. Its portability and scalability were the main reasons we used it. The app-engine manageability...
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Manjeet Singh
Professional - Engineering
Senior Manager - Engineering
Hike Messenger
Google App Engine3 years of experience

Google App Engine lives up to its name!

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 26, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We deployed Moodle(LMS) and Odoo(ERP) applications on Google App Engine using Marketplace available configurations from Bitmani. We are using App Engine to host such client ap...
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Rudolph Pereira
Team Lead - Information Technology
Team Lead
Avalon Information Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Google App Engine3 years of experience

Good Service

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 5, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Google App Engine (GAE) as part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is being used across our entire SaaS product. It provides us with an enterprise level infrastructure that ca...
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Verified user
C-Level Executive
Google App Engine4 years of experience

Google App Engine - For companies that don't have time to admin machines

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 22, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Google App Engine in production environment for some applications from our health care insurance model. It allows us to focus on developing applications while Goo...
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Kadu Barral
Team Lead - Information Technology
SRE
SulAmerica Seguros
Google App Engine4 years of experience

A good alternative for application deployment, Google App Engine

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 12, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We at our organisation use Google App Engine to test and deploy dynamic internal contents. As Google App Engine is able to work with multi language support, it is beneficial f...
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Lokesh Meena
Team Lead - Product Management
Project Manager
FlipPaisa
Google App Engine1 year of experience

Awesome experience on Google App Engine

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 15, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Google App Engine as a primary backend of our location-based application. We developed a mobile application to track our company cab live location tracking. So we...
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Verified user
Analyst
Google App Engine4 years of experience

Serverless Web app platform that includes auto scaling for simpler web apps

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Google App Engine is used in the IT department to host the organization's website, manage the scaling as well as ongoing maintenance and updates, and to build the web applicat...
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Verified user
Analyst
Google App Engine2 years of experience

A reliable web application hosting platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 31, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Google App Engine to house many of our mission-critical web applications with zero downtime. It solves the need to have 100% uptime with no added long term equipment co...
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Verified user
Manager
Google App Engine2 years of experience

Google App Engine is a true modern wonder.

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 16, 2019
IncentivizedVetted Review
Google App Engine is in use for nearly every internal system and tool that we have developed, as well as a large amount of systems and tools that we have developed for our cus...
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Tristan Dobbs
Executive - Professional Services
Vice President of Shared Services
Cloudbakers
Google App Engine7 years of experience

Google App Engine - simple application hosting at Google scale

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 24, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I enjoy using Google App Engine because it allows me to focus on developing applications while GAE handles hosting and scaling.
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Zachary Yaro
Engineer - Information Technology
Developer
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Google App Engine6 years of experience

A good application overall

Rating: 5 out of 10
August 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It is used to develop and host web applications. It is very helpful in its versatility.
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Darshan YS
Engineer - Research & Development
Senior Computer Vision Scientist
Verrix
Google App Engine1 year of experience
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$0.05

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  • No setup fee

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Features

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform as a Service is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient

8.7
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Google App Engine?

Google 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.

Key Features

Popular Languages
Build applications in Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, or PHP—or bring a custom language runtime

Open & Flexible
Custom runtimes allows developers to bring any library and framework to App Engine by supplying a Docker container

Fully Managed
A fully managed environment lets developers focus on code while App Engine manages infrastructure concerns

Monitoring, Logging & Diagnostics
Google Stackdriver provides application diagnostics to debug and monitor the health and performance of apps

Application Versioning
Host different versions of applications, create development, test, staging, and production environments

Traffic Splitting
Route incoming requests to different app versions, A/B test, and do incremental feature rollouts

Application Security
Help safeguard applications by defining access rules with App Engine firewall and leverage managed SSL/TLS certificates* by default on a custom domain at no additional cost

Services Ecosystem
Tap a growing ecosystem of GCP services from applications including a suite of cloud developer tools

Google App Engine Integrations

Google App Engine Competitors

Google App Engine Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Google 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.

CloudFoundry are common alternatives for Google App Engine.

Reviewers rate Ease of building user interfaces and Scalability and Workflow engine capability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Google App Engine are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(229)

Community Insights

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Efficient Email Servers: Users have praised the email servers for their efficiency in delivering messages promptly, ensuring reliable communication.

Easy Data Upload: Many users find the ability to upload data to web applications effortlessly as a valuable feature that enhances their overall user experience.

Automatic Scaling of Apps: The automatic scaling of apps based on user demand is highlighted by users as a beneficial feature that ensures smooth performance even with increasing usage.

Various Programming Language Support: Users appreciate the platform's support for programming languages like Java, Python, Php, and Ruby, which facilitates development and adds flexibility.

Straightforward Billing System: The straightforward and easy-to-understand billing system provided by Google is appreciated by users for simplifying financial management within the platform.

Project-Based Resource Management: The project-based management of resources by Google is seen as a beneficial feature that contributes to efficient resource allocation and utilization.

Flexibility in Scaling Instances: Users value the ability to scale instances up or down based on business needs, allowing effective demand response while optimizing costs.

Managing Server-less Resources Efficiently: The ease of managing server-less resources and deploying applications efficiently is highlighted as a key strength of the platform.

Cost-Effective Solution for Small Applications: Google App Engine is recognized as a cost-effective and time-saving alternative for running small applications, enabling quick implementation.

Lack of Sufficient Documentation and Tutorials: Some users have pointed out that more comprehensive documentation and tutorials are needed to assist in understanding the platform's features and functionalities better. Additional resources can help users navigate complex processes with ease.

Limited Integration with Open Source Applications: Users express a desire for improved integration capabilities with open source applications to enhance flexibility and ensure seamless compatibility with various systems. Better integration options would enable smoother workflows for users across different platforms.

Challenges in UI Theme Selection: Several users highlight the limited options available for selecting different UI themes, indicating a need for increased customization choices. Diverse theme selections can cater to diverse design preferences, enhancing user experience and satisfaction.

Reviews

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Good PaaS Platform with Great Support

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 22, 2022
NC
Naresh Chaudhary
Staff Engineer
Exarca (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's one of the best serverless platforms we used so far. We created a small web application on it to use as ATS and also set up an email server which worked very well with good performance and minimal administration. Their support team is superb as they addressed our queries so effectively and fast. It's also very good in terms of integration with other applications and existing infrastructure.
Pros and Cons
  • Email servers are good with email delivery in inbox.
  • It enables uploading data to web applications.
  • We're able to manage multiple applications with a single dashboard which has a great UI.
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is a great platform to cater to the needs of different size organizations from small businesses to enterprise levels. Due to its great support and the large community, it can be deployed with minimum administration. It is also a great choice for businesses requiring an extra level of security.

App creation and management goodness.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 01, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our organization uses Google App Engine for writing, deploying and testing the code as it requires minimal configuration for testing of code and the code gets covered even in production which is a plus point. It helps in mitigating the errors and deploying and testing the code seamlessly to production.
Pros and Cons
  • Apps get automatically scaled based on the users, more users more instances and app runs smoothly.
  • Debugging and monitoring applications is easy even in production it automatically debugs the code.
  • It supports a lot of languages like Java, Python, Php, Ruby, etc which adds to the ease of development.
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is a great tool for app building that provides support for a lot of languages and scalability options when the user base increases by creating parallel instances of the app which reduces the downtime. It automatically debugs the code even in the production as well as sandbox environments which reduces the risk of functionality breaking.

Google App Engine - perfect for any app looking to modernize!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 10, 2021
CG
Cameron Gable
Software Engineer III
Serimmune Inc. (Biotechnology, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have one significant web application. It is used by our entire R&D team across multiple departments as the primary platform for data analysis. We currently have our web application running on Google App Engine flexible as it gives us the ability to run the runtime we need to run.
Pros and Cons
  • Google App Engine is perfect for web applications running a number of services at scale.
  • App Engine is flexible enough to run any runtime using the flexible edition.
  • App Engine takes a lot of the work off of supporting and maintaining the application
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is well suited for a multitude of scenarios. Although it can be harder to adopt then something like a 'lift and shift' approach to Compute Engine and using virtual machines, App Engine is well worth it. It is perfect for application and infrastructure modernization and it's power really comes from its integration with the rest of the suite of GCP products.

Great for small teams

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 02, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We're using Google App Engine to build and host our web application and backend across the organization. This helps us in building a highly scalable applications on a fully managed server-less platform.
Pros and Cons
  • It's very simple to integrate in the application.
  • Provides deployment history, so that you can switch back to any instance.
  • Fully scalable, so that you can add power as needed.
Likelihood to Recommend
The fact that it is very easy to understand for a person who is making his/her first step into cloud technology. Auto scalable and managed totally by Google is also a great feature for a small team or a prototype application. So, if you want to get a system up and running quickly then this can be really handy.

Google App Engine - Easy deployment with no manageability

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
April 27, 2021
MS
Manjeet Singh
Senior Manager - Engineering
Hike Messenger (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
[Google App Engine] was used by one department for serving various backend APIs.
Its portability and scalability were the main reasons we used it.
The app-engine manageability was totally on Google
Pros and Cons
  • Fully Managed by Google
  • Completely auto-scalable
  • Easy to deploy and monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
If we have lightweight APIs with simple database interactions then app-engine is best suitable.
No manageability, just write code and deploy

Google App Engine lives up to its name!

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
April 26, 2021
RP
Rudolph Pereira
Team Lead
Avalon Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We deployed Moodle(LMS) and Odoo(ERP) applications on Google App Engine using Marketplace available configurations from Bitmani. We are using App Engine to host such client applications. The Google Marketplace saved us many hours of trying to configure these large applications ourselves.
Pros and Cons
  • Google's Marketplace is a great resource. I did not find this on other cloud services.
  • Google's billing system is easy and straightforward to understand.
  • Google's project based management of resources is good.
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is great for Kubernetes, since it's very stable and new releases come quickly. Google Marketplace saved a lot of time if standard open sources applications like Moodle has to be deployed and tested quickly.
Google App Engine is not good for beginners in cloud hosting, since it's hard to configure.

Good Service

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 05, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Google App Engine (GAE) as part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is being used across our entire SaaS product. It provides us with an enterprise level infrastructure that can be scaled as our business needs demand very quickly and easily. By not having to build and maintain our own on premise servers, it allows us to focus on our product rather than infrastructure.
Pros and Cons
  • Scale - we can scale instances up/down based on business needs allowing us to meet demand without wasting money for extra capacity
  • Cloud Task Queues
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is especially well suited for situations where there is a variable workload during the day, e.g. inbound task processing with task queues. In this situation queues can be setup with parameters governing the process speed/scaling which allows you to easily balance performance with cost and meet a good balance.

Google App Engine - For companies that don't have time to admin machines

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 22, 2020
KB
Kadu Barral
SRE
SulAmerica Seguros (Insurance, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Google App Engine in production environment for some applications from our health care insurance model. It allows us to focus on developing applications while Google App Engine handles hosting. It is easy to deploy and run.
Pros and Cons
  • Serverless is easy to manage and scale up and down resources.
  • Ease to deploy.
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is recommended for small and fast applications that scale, because of some lack of monitoring, it's not a better choice for critical applications with complex scenarios and integrations.

A good alternative for application deployment, Google App Engine

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
February 12, 2020
LM
Lokesh Meena
Project Manager
FlipPaisa (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We at our organisation use Google App Engine to test and deploy dynamic internal contents. As Google App Engine is able to work with multi language support, it is beneficial for small to large tasks wherever we require serverless infrastructure. It is easy to deploy and run comparing to full machine infrastructure, as Google App Engine is part of Google Cloud services, we can use it separately along with VM instances as well wherever required.
Pros and Cons
  • It is one of the best alternatives of full machine for small applications.
  • It takes less time to implement/deploy or run applications on GAE.
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is well suited for small applications where full customization like in regular machines is not required. It takes much less time to deploy and run in Google App Engine. It is auto-scalable, so Google App Engine could be used for applications which require less or high computing. It is not suited in most cases if the budget is low.

Awesome experience on Google App Engine

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 15, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Google App Engine as a primary backend of our location-based application. We developed a mobile application to track our company cab live location tracking. So we were planning to store the data to the Google App Engine. From there, we fetch and show the data as reports in the other admin application.
Pros and Cons
  • It helped us to maintain mass data like live location data.
  • They offered some free quota as well.
Likelihood to Recommend
Suitable backend engine for handling mass data insertion like live location tracking data of our office cab. This is the well-suited scenario of the Google App Engine in our application.

Serverless Web app platform that includes auto scaling for simpler web apps

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 23, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Google App Engine is used in the IT department to host the organization's website, manage the scaling as well as ongoing maintenance and updates, and to build the web application in PHP and Python, serverless, without the inhouse management of the website's underlying infrastructure and platform.
Pros and Cons
  • Google App Engine APIs to build and deploy the web app was straightforward and very easy.
  • Since Google App Engine is fully managed and serverless, the web app auto scales up and down based on the workload.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a great 'startup' web application platform where you are looking at building a not to complex website that is fully managed without much internal IT staff. It is less appropriate when the web application is complex and you expect large database query sizes/index or workloads that needs a lot of compute, memory and network resources since it is expensive, being fully management and serverless.

A reliable web application hosting platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 31, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Google App Engine to house many of our mission-critical web applications with zero downtime. It solves the need to have 100% uptime with no added long term equipment costs and additional IT support staff.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease to deploy.
  • Flexible ability to scale to meet increases in users.
  • Ability to program in various languages allowing for different development teams to work with it.
Likelihood to Recommend
If there is a need to deploy a web application on new equipment without purchasing hardware and requiring additional IT support, then App Engine will fit the need. The pricing is low and can be scaled to meet the needs.

Google App Engine is a true modern wonder.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 16, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Google App Engine is in use for nearly every internal system and tool that we have developed, as well as a large amount of systems and tools that we have developed for our customers. It is used by our development team to build integrations between systems, build web pages, build cron jobs and automation workflows, and really anything else we need.

Our internal IT team uses it to deploy other systems like a Grab and Go program for Chromebooks (open sourced) and time approval mechanisms.
Pros and Cons
  • Extremely low cost option for web page deployment. It so simple to prototype or even offer a service by using your favourite app servering platform like Django, Flask, etc.
  • Incredible scaling. App Engine scales up and down with ease, automatically, and never fails to serve your app.
  • Ease of deployment. Google documentation is clear and concise, plus it's extremely extensible. It's easy to learn how to do this!
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Google App Engine - simple application hosting at Google scale

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
September 24, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I enjoy using Google App Engine because it allows me to focus on developing applications while GAE handles hosting and scaling.
Pros and Cons
  • Multiple backend frameworks to choose from
  • Reasonable pricing and generous free quotas
  • Scalability
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine (GAE) is great if you already want to work in a supported language, such as Python, and you do not want to worry about how your application will scale. It is less suited to an app where you want to use a more customized set of frameworks, an unsupported language, or a custom database solution—though Google Compute Engine can meet some of those needs. It is also obviously not a good choice if you want tight control over your servers.

A good application overall

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
August 23, 2019
DY
Darshan YS
Senior Computer Vision Scientist
Verrix (Biotechnology, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used to develop and host web applications. It is very helpful in its versatility.
Pros and Cons
  • Monitoring and operations.
  • Backups.
  • SSL security.
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is a very good app engine application for mid scale web applications whereas its a bit pricy for small applications for constant load applications and less powerful for largescale applications. The price point can be altered a little to increase the market in the small scale segment of the application.

App Engine!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 19, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Google App Engine to program in Python for data collection and data mining. This is solely being used for engineering and development. It solves the issue of having to manage your own server and allows your apps to be accessed from anywhere there is a computer and internet access. This makes it convenient for sharing between coworkers.
Pros and Cons
  • Coding environment
  • Create test environments
  • Have a history of all builds
Likelihood to Recommend
This PaaS is great because you can access your programs and builds anywhere with a computer and internet connection. It's relatively cheap and easy to use. It supports everything I needed so far.

App Engine Review!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 18, 2019
JD
Joshua Dickson
Director of Engineering
NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
App Engine is a fantastic service for developers who want to be able to run their code in an environment that they do not have to provision -- there is no manual server configuration or maintenance, etc, and all the developer needs to be concerned about is how their code works.
Pros and Cons
  • Removes the need for manual server configuration, management, orchestration, etc
  • Interfaces incredibly well with other GCP services, like Cloud Functions and Firebase
Likelihood to Recommend
App Engine is well suited to customers who want to use Google Cloud as their primary cloud service and is similar in role to Elastic Beanstalk from AWS and App Service from Azure. 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.

PaaS from Google, give it some code and it will run it and scale it automatically

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 17, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It serves all our traffic to end users, which is basically one of the most important things for our organization.
Pros and Cons
  • Serving traffic to end users. It can scale automatically when traffic spikes.
  • The standard environment has some limitations, but it encourages you to write "scalable" code.
  • With Flexible Environment, you can serve any Docker container you want, still taking advantage of auto scaling.
  • Easy integration with other Google Cloud products, e.g. Datastore, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, etc.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a good use case to use App Engine when you need to serve traffic to large amount of users, but you should avoid doing any computation on it. It's better to use Compute Engine or Dataflow to process your data. It has a free tier so it's very useful for non-yet-existing startups.

Expensive, Cutting Edge and Highly Recommended

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 16, 2019
JD
Jonah Dempcy
Web & Mobile Developer
Bluefire Productions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Google App Engine for content distribution of digital publishing assets as well as analytics and authentication services for a wide array of platforms. The whole organization uses Google App Engine in some capacity or another. The business problems it addresses are virtualizing services and abstracting away server configuration, load balancing, software updates and everything else we would have to do to set up the same infrastructure on a classic web server stack. Google App Engine has expedited our development and deployment processes tremendously so we can continue innovating with new services, getting them up and running quickly, while trusting that our existing services are running on a rock solid cloud platform backend.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is great if you want to rapidly build and deploy web services and you have the money to spend. It's also great if you have a team of developers, or at least 2 or 3, so if you get stuck then you have multiple people looking into it and trying to figure out how to proceed. It is less well-suited to a small startup looking to save cash, or to an individual developer who may get stuck on something and be totally blocked for days or weeks.

Google App Engine is the perfect tool to scale your app

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 16, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Google App Engine is used by my organization's web development department. We use Google App Engine to build and quality assess new web apps that the department is working on because it requires no new infrastructure or servers. We are able to effectively test the app's scalability without having to pay large fees to do so.
Pros and Cons
  • The scalability testing of Google App Engine is top notch. You can quickly and efficiently test if your new app will support millions of users.
  • Google App Engine is an out-of-box platform, in that it allows the user to begin development and testing immediately, with no further services needed.
  • Google App Engine's version controlling allows for effective quality assurance. If you make a mistake and the app breaks, you can rollback the update and debug.
  • With a 99.9+% uptime, Google App Engine is very reliable (as are all Google products).
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is well suited for building and quality assuring an app that you expect will receive heavy traffic. With the click of a button, the engine can simulate 10 million users being active on the app. This can serve as great feedback as you work to scale your product.

Google App Engine's best feature is cloud endpoint

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 15, 2019
HL
Hil Liao
Cloud software engineer
Avanade (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently evaluating Google App engine as a platform as a service to our customers. The Google App Engine cloud endpoints is equivalent to Microsoft Azure's web apps or API apps. We are impressed with its ability to deploy Java or Python based RestFul API directly to Cloud endpoints. I coded the logic in the RestFul API to access Google's Cloud DataStore (kind-entity-property type of data store). Google's SDK made it easy to integrate its App Engine with its storage solutions. I have not tried its Cloud Bigtable from Cloud endpoints but I'm sure it's on our next task list.

Google App Engine's primary programming language is Java. I tried JetBrain's IntelliJ IDEA for managing Google App engine cloud endpoint projects. I used the community edition, which had less support for Google App Engine Cloud endpoint. The enterprise edition should have better support.

For those who prefer to use Python, JetBrains may have just released PyCharm for $99. Nothing comes for free. If you work at a company that has those licenses, you should feel lucky. Having a good IDE is critical to productivity. It has a "PyCharm Free Educational (Classroom) License" for free.

Pros and Cons
  • Auto scale application load.
  • Platform as a Service feature abstracts the web server layer.
  • Perfect for Android or iOS app server logic development.
  • Connect to different Google storage types.
Likelihood to Recommend
  • What kind of data store do you plan to use for your server side application? Make sure Google App Engine SDK supports them.
  • Will your server applications be REST based? Think about using cloud endpoint.
  • Do you plan to use a JSP page with servlet class?

Solid solution, maybe not as great as the competition

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
August 02, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We developed and deployed a basic app via Google App Engine in order to evaluate their serverless architecture. Development and deployment were mostly pain free, and we were able to quickly go live with a scalable solution where we didn't have to worry about infrastructure, using the language of our choice (many are supported).
Pros and Cons
  • Supports all popular languages (and you can even bring your own language runtime)
  • Built-in automatic scaling is great
Likelihood to Recommend
I would say that Google App Engine is worth a look, however it doesn't seem to be as full-featured or popular as competing platforms such as AWS and Azure. It also feels a little dated in general. That said, it's still a solid platform and we were able to get live and running with little trouble.

GCP hits the nail on the head. (Sometimes)

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 14, 2018
RC
Robert Christian
Director of Platform Architecture and Chief Architect, Liaison ALLOY
Liaison Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
7 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
[It's being used for] Testing across various departments (Skunkworks. POCs, including Apigee API Gateway).
Pros and Cons
  • Client SDK and examples for integrating with services (Datastore/Storage/Pub/Sub).
  • Lightweight deployment code/config (lightweight YAML).
  • Autoscale (configuration and runtime).
  • Flexible runtimes.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited: Prototype. Test. App scale. Small team. Less well suited. When higher (more granular) level of control is needed, AWS is still superior.

Google Apps where it fits

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 01, 2017
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google App Engine
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Google Apps seems to be the choice for our designers over Office 365, we have had to implement it as a solution in order to please them. It is mostly being used for email because of the ability to tie in with MAC OS and bind to their workflow bouncing between Adobe CC and OSx.
Pros and Cons
  • Works with OSx
  • Creates cohesive workflow
  • Allows for easy collaboration
Likelihood to Recommend
Google Apps would work really well in the SMB environments, in a business looking to switch fully to Google only as the solution it could work really well. Cost wise it is cheaper than Office 365 and adds value when it comes to the licensing cost of Microsoft office and Exchange.

Google App Engine for Quick Deployments

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 24, 2017
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it across the organization to host various internal projects and for a variety of support-level tools we use in house. Mostly PHP and NodeJS apps, some are pre-built apps that run great on app engine, others are built in house and are tailored to very specific needs that various groups or clients need.
Pros and Cons
  • Very flexible, runs PHP, Node, Java, Go, etc.
  • Standard environments with regards to the stack being used.
  • Now part of Google Cloud.
Likelihood to Recommend
Getting certain apps to run on App Engine can be a hassle, but if you start building something on App Engine, it's very robust and easily integrates with other Google Cloud offerings. There are, however, tutorials for getting WordPress up and running on AppEngine. Also Laravel is pretty slick with App Engine.
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