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Google App Engine

Overview

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 Service

10 out of 10
April 05, 2021
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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 …
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Popular Features

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  • Scalability (31)
    9.0
    90%
  • Development environment creation (28)
    8.9
    89%
  • Platform access control (30)
    8.9
    89%
  • Platform management overhead (31)
    8.9
    89%
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Pricing

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Starting Price

$0.05

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Per Hour Per Instance

Max Price

$0.30

Cloud
Per Hour Per Instance

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

MapReduce Made Easy With Google App Engine

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Creating an android application with Google App Engine backend

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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 8.2
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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

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November 22, 2022

Good PaaS Platform with Great Support

Naresh Chaudhary | TrustRadius Reviewer
Naresh Chaudhary
Staff Engineer
Exarca (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
November 01, 2021

App creation and management goodness.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 10, 2021

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

Cameron Gable | TrustRadius Reviewer
Cameron Gable
Software Engineer III
Serimmune Inc. (Biotechnology, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
June 02, 2021

Great for small teams

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 26, 2021

Google App Engine lives up to its name!

Rudolph Pereira | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rudolph Pereira
Team Lead
Avalon Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
April 05, 2021

Good Service

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 12, 2020

A good alternative for application deployment, Google App Engine

LM
Lokesh Meena
Project Manager
FlipPaisa (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 23, 2019

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

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 31, 2019

A reliable web application hosting platform

Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 16, 2019

Google App Engine is a true modern wonder.

Tristan Dobbs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tristan Dobbs
Vice President of Shared Services
Cloudbakers (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
September 24, 2019

Google App Engine - simple application hosting at Google scale

Zachary Yaro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Zachary Yaro
Developer
. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 23, 2019

A good application overall

Darshan YS | TrustRadius Reviewer
Darshan YS
Senior Computer Vision Scientist
Verrix (Biotechnology, 11-50 employees)
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 19, 2019

App Engine!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Medical Devices Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 18, 2019

App Engine Review!

Joshua Dickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joshua Dickson
Director of Engineering
NorthOut (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 17, 2019

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

Dmitry Sadovnychyi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dmitry Sadovnychyi
Software Engineer
LawInsider.com (Legal Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 16, 2019

Expensive, Cutting Edge and Highly Recommended

Jonah Dempcy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jonah Dempcy
Web & Mobile Developer
Bluefire Productions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 16, 2019

Google App Engine is the perfect tool to scale your app

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Think Tanks Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 15, 2019

Google App Engine's best feature is cloud endpoint

Hil Liao | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hil Liao
Cloud software engineer
Avanade (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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?
August 02, 2018

Solid solution, maybe not as great as the competition

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1-10 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 01, 2017

Google Apps where it fits

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
May 24, 2017

Google App Engine for Quick Deployments

Tyler Longren | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tyler Longren
Web Developer
Self-employed (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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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