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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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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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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
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Tap a growing ecosystem of GCP services from applications including a suite of
cloud developer tools
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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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November 22, 2022
Good PaaS Platform with Great Support
Score 8 out of 10
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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.
- 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.
- Some more documentation and tutorials would help a lot.
- I would like to see integration with more open source applications.
- I would like more options to choose different UI themes.
June 02, 2021
Great for small teams
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.
- 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.
- They can improve on their documentation.
- Navigation can be made more simple.
- Pricing can be reduced.
[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
Its portability and scalability were the main reasons we used it.
The app-engine manageability was totally on Google
- Fully Managed by Google
- Completely auto-scalable
- Easy to deploy and monitor
- We need to be careful while deployment, there are some drops of requests
- Time in deployment is slightly high
- Exceptions during deployment
April 05, 2021
Good Service
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.
- 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
- Documentation - The documentation across the board is lacking and often times out of date or just plain wrong.
- Standard instances could provide better support for more tech stacks so that flex and/or custom instances are not required.
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.
- Serverless is easy to manage and scale up and down resources.
- Ease to deploy.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting are not so easy.
- Creates vendor lock-in
February 12, 2020
A good alternative for application deployment, Google App Engine
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.
- 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.
- According to me, worst thing with GAE is it's very expensive when we compare with regular implementations.
- It has fewer tutorials or documentations, so a little bit hard to implement at the first time.
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.
- 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.
- Google App Engine is expensive in the long run and cost adds up pretty quickly.
- Since it is fully managed and serverless, you have no access to underlying infrastructure and OS that may be needed for some fine tuned and complex web apps.
October 16, 2019
Google App Engine is a true modern wonder.
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.
Our internal IT team uses it to deploy other systems like a Grab and Go program for Chromebooks (open sourced) and time approval mechanisms.
- 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!
- Support. It's not frequent at all that we reach out with support questions, but it is sometimes hard to get answers.
- Roadmap visibility. Transitions and deprecations are hard to track and therefore may be hard to plan for!
August 18, 2019
App Engine Review!
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.
- Removes the need for manual server configuration, management, orchestration, etc
- Interfaces incredibly well with other GCP services, like Cloud Functions and Firebase
- 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 serves all our traffic to end users, which is basically one of the most important things for our organization.
- 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.
- Flexible environment needs scaling to zero and support for all APIs available in Standard Environment like ndb for Python and Task Queue.
- Standard Environment needs to update some outdated libraries like lxml for Python.
- Instance pricing of Standard Environment could be lowered, since it wasn't updated for many years.
August 16, 2019
Expensive, Cutting Edge and Highly Recommended
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.
- 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.
- Documentation does not always keep up with the latest changes to the service. Google App Engine has undergone a lot of changes these past couple of years. At times, we were surprised to find out that something we didn't think was possible was, or, conversely, something that was supposed to work fine which had been deprecated. We also ended up using some undocumented features and weren't sure whether they would keep working or not.
- Price. Google App Engine isn't cheap. But, you get what you pay for. Rock solid service, great tools, at a hefty price.
- Difficult to tell how to optimize costs. We racked up the expenses and it is still a mystery where all the costs are being incurred.
- Some intimidating or arcane aspects of configuration. Most of it was a breeze but every now and then something would be pretty far out and require a few of us developers putting our heads together to figure it out.
- Sometimes required reading source code to figure out how to do something. Not a ton of examples of how to do various things, nor Stack Overflow posts, at least in the beginning. I imagine this will change as the community grows. But sometimes it felt like we were all alone trying to figure out how to do things.
August 16, 2019
Google App Engine is the perfect tool to scale your app
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.
- 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).
- Google App Engine has its own version of SQL called GQL which is inferior to straight SQL. This means a steeper learning curve.
- The documentation on best practices for the platform is lacking.
- No support for C# is a frustrating limitation.
August 15, 2019
Google App Engine's best feature is cloud endpoint
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.
- 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.
- Able to use C# as the programming language in its SDK.
- Integration with Visual studio C# for using Google app engine cloud endpoint SDK.
- Documentation on choosing a IDE to get started. Doing things in the command line is too basic. It's good to know them but having a sophisticated IDE is the next step to achieve higher productivity.
August 02, 2018
Solid solution, maybe not as great as the competition
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).
- Supports all popular languages (and you can even bring your own language runtime)
- Built-in automatic scaling is great
- Lags behind competing platforms (Azure, AWS) in terms of features
- Less documentation, examples, etc. as compared to competitors' platforms
August 01, 2017
Google Apps where it fits
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.
- Works with OSx
- Creates cohesive workflow
- Allows for easy collaboration
- Sheets is not as robust as Excel.
- Hangouts seems to lack some of the resolution you get with Skype.
- It does not tie well with AD when using another solution like Office 365.
May 24, 2017
Google App Engine for Quick Deployments
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.
- Very flexible, runs PHP, Node, Java, Go, etc.
- Standard environments with regards to the stack being used.
- Now part of Google Cloud.
- Documentation for certain things is lacking.
- Better tutorials for certain stacks.
October 09, 2015
Good App Engine (GAE)
The Google App Engine solution is helping an entirely new category of applications that process data in real-time and at scale very robustly. It has faster, easier, more detailed simulations and solutions for all cloud related requirements. We use Google App Engine to develop and deploy both internal and public web applications. The APIs for accessing the datastore are very easy to use.
- The APIs for accessing the datastore are very easy to use.
- Implementing text indexing and search related applications perform better on Google App Engine compared to other app engines.
- Reliable NoSQL datastore, including atomic transactions and a query engine.
- Developers have read-only access to the filesystem on Google App Engine.
- Google App Engine limits the maximum rows returned from an entity get to 1000 rows per Datastore call.
- Not suitable for CPU intensive calculations.
Use is based on client or project needs. It is used mainly as a cloud based API service so that corporate enterprise systems can leverage it internally or with other service dependent applications.
- Cloud based RESTful APIs
- Access to big data resources for reporting and analytics
- Custom Cloud web hosted applications
- Cost, speed, ease of adoption
- Implemented a custom company based web site using Vosao on GAE CMS
- Administration and management - more Azure like portal
- Better reporting on forecasted and actual usage via notifications.
- Better documentation, examples. More use case centric documentation.