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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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Recent Reviews

Good Service

10 out of 10
April 05, 2021
Incentivized
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

Cloud
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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Apps across our entire organization for email, calendaring, collaboration ( via Google Docs, Sheets, Sites, Hangouts, etc…) directory, archiving and retention, as well as social and video delivery (YouTube). The primary use of Google Apps in our organization is for corporate email. The platform is stable and reliable. Our users are familiar with the interface, keeping training requirements low.
  • Robust email system.
  • Easy to understand document sharing.
  • The calendar integrates well with email.
  • The Apps have limitations. Be sure you are OK with those limitations before you install. Google has not been responsive to feature requests.
  • Managing Calendar without a third-party tool is nearly impossible.
  • Integration with Active Directory is kludgy at best. Do NOT expect the integration to be smooth or the functionality robust.
If your installation relies on Active Directory integration, you may want to consider the product from the company in Redmond, WA instead. In my opinion, this is Google Apps weakness.
Platform-as-a-Service (10)
53%
5.3
Scalability
100%
10.0
Platform management overhead
30%
3.0
Workflow engine capability
40%
4.0
Platform access control
70%
7.0
Services-enabled integration
80%
8.0
Development environment creation
20%
2.0
Development environment replication
20%
2.0
Issue monitoring and notification
50%
5.0
Issue recovery
50%
5.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
70%
7.0
  • We save money on web conferencing by using a few thousand Hangouts per month.
  • Google provides best-in-class spam filtering and eliminates the need for a separate (expensive) application to manage unwanted email.
We left Lotus Notes for the (more versatile) Google Apps. We could never recommend the closed architecture of Lotus Notes. We have evaluated Office 365 and believe the product is compelling. So compelling, that we may consider a platform change…
Google support is mostly offshore for the US. At times, this makes for language and communication issues.
No
Occasionally, you will get a sport specialist that really knows his stuff. This happens about 1 out of 5 times I call. The other four… well, sometimes I simply get off the call and call back to get someone else. It can be that bad.
  • Adding Users
  • Modifying user profiles
  • ANYTHING in Calendar - third-party tool required.
  • Integrate with AD - very cumbersome
Yes, but I don't use it
As soon as you navigate around in the Apps interface, you will see that it is easy to use. So easy, that new sysadmins can get fooled into thinking it is not powerful. Be careful what you click. A small checkbox can shut down your entire organization's email!
October 09, 2015

Good App Engine (GAE)

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Google App Engine's infrastructure removes many of the system administration and development challenges of building applications to scale to millions of hits. Google handles deploying code to a cluster, monitoring, failover, and launching application instances as necessary.
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
72.72727272727272%
7.3
Ease of building user interfaces
60%
6.0
Scalability
80%
8.0
Platform management overhead
60%
6.0
Workflow engine capability
70%
7.0
Platform access control
90%
9.0
Services-enabled integration
70%
7.0
Development environment creation
70%
7.0
Development environment replication
60%
6.0
Issue monitoring and notification
80%
8.0
Issue recovery
70%
7.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
90%
9.0
  • Increased employee efficiency.
  • Less infrastructure maintenance time.
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
The immediate benefits of Google App Engine is that it is essentially maintenance free as it relates to infrastructure (scalable web server and database administration). Google App Engine is more tailored to those developers that only want to focus on their applications and not the underlying system. In a way you can consider that developer friendly.
5
They simplify the customer management information that was distributed in multiple systems across its sales and marketing organization.they design, develop and implement a system that consolidated all the information to a single point data source for other customer sensitive data, including the CRM system.
2
Technical Engineers.
  • Data analysis
  • web app deployment
  • app deployment through ansible
  • docker installation
  • data algorrithm processing. data intensive operation
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Analyst Reports
More robust and scalability.
  • Don't know
No
  • pricing
no.
Yes
More technical knowledge needs to be pursued by the technical support team.
No
Regarding the application deployment support.
  • deployment
  • scalability
  • ease of use
  • multi platform support
  • memory intensive operations
The overall plus is the ease of use – you need way less system administration knowledge, and even if you have it, you need to do much less in order to have a real-world-ready application.
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