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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

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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Reviews and Ratings

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April 18, 2017

Using Google App Engine to build a classic Java Spring MVC application

Andre Masson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andre Masson
Product Design/Development Engineer
ACCEO Solutions (Real Estate, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios where Google App Engine is well suited:
  • Allows endpoints for automatic email retrieval process which acts as long running jobs processes
  • "Cron" like web process launchable through simple endpoint URL
  • Java Spring MVC web application or RESTful web services integrated with single page applications (SPA)
Scenarios where it is less appropriate:
  • If your web application requires a short starting time GAE does not perform fast startups. However once started the web app has constant and stable processing speed
  • If the development team is looking for very well integrated product suite (like IDE well integrated with the backend server) then GAE requires much more improvements
April 18, 2016

Good start point for your application

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Google App Engine is well suited If you want to use simple deployment for your Django application and if you want to change to an old version of your application when you get a fail on your application without any extra effort. This is really good scenario for developers. You don't need any system engineers to control your application. I like that.
October 20, 2015

Try GAE for a change!

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Business Supplies and Equipment Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
A scenario where Google App Engine is well suited is when you want to develop a quick prototype and you don't have servers as an infrastructure option and you just need to have something running quick. Also make sure the app doesn't need to create new threads, write to the file system, or use Java classes outside of the JRE class whitelist.
October 09, 2015

Good App Engine (GAE)

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
March 18, 2015

Google App Engine: The powerful, predictable, pay-as-you-go Platform-As-A-Service

Verified User
Consultant in Research & Development
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
App Engine is well suited for most web applications, especially when you are unsure about the amount of traffic you are expecting to have. Knowing that App Engine will scale up and down automatically gives you a peace of mind that your application will not crash if demand suddenly increases! And you don't need to worry about paying for a high end solution with redundancy and load balancing built in - as App Engine handles all of that - and you only pay for the resources you actually use.
June 16, 2014

My thoughts on Google App Engine (from a usage perspective)

Paul Ford | TrustRadius Reviewer
Paul Ford
Senior Principal
Trexin Consulting (Management Consulting, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
  • Learning curve is relatively short.
  • Integration to Eclipse is awesome.
  • Integration with standard frameworks is getting better - I would not recommend loading entire spring framework on it, but aspects of it are more useful.
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