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Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
Starting at $0.05 Per Hour Per Instance
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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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2020
Popular Features
View all 11 features- Scalability (31)8.888%
- Platform access control (30)8.383%
- Development environment creation (28)8.181%
- Platform management overhead (31)7.878%
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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
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 Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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.
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The most common users of Google App Engine are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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.
67%
6.7
- It serves traffic very well with almost zero down time – it's always positive impact.
You can spawn up your own cluster using Kubernetes or Container Engine which will scale automatically when configured properly, but you have to keep an eye on that cluster. In App Engine you don't have to worry about it at all, just ship your code and it will run.
- Scaling -- you just focus on writing your code without worrying about how to scale it.
- Versioning -- you can deploy multiple versions of your app and run them at the same time to perform QA, internal testing, public testing, a/b testing, etc.
- Datastore -- very scalable as long as you understand limitations, can write tens of thousands of entities from e.g. Dataflow/Apache Beam without any issues, and they are immediately ready to be served to end users.
- Migration to 2nd gen runtimes is hard, but they do provide a lot of benefit as well (ability to run any compiled code).
- No (good) full text search solution. While you can scale the datastore as much as you want, you have to go for third party solutions (e.g. elasticsearch) for full text search. Built-in Search API (which is not available on second-gen runtimes) is very limited and does not perform well.
Yes
It's OK, they provide some basic monitoring tools.
March 15, 2016
Google Apps for Work - It works!
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.
53%
5.3
- 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…
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
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.
72.72727272727272%
7.3
- 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
Yes
No
Regarding the application deployment support.
- deployment
- scalability
- ease of use
- multi platform support
- memory intensive operations