Google App Engine - For companies that don't have time to admin machines
February 22, 2020

Google App Engine - For companies that don't have time to admin machines

Kadu Barral | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google App Engine

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
  • Fast MVP delivery.
You can create and scale Kubernetes clusters quickly, but you have to keep an eye on that cluster. In-App Engine, you don't have to worry about infrastructure, but in some scenarios, Kubernetes fits better.
Google supports fast to answer, and the documentation is rich and always up to date.

Do you think Google App Engine delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google App Engine's feature set?

Yes

Did Google App Engine live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Google App Engine go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google App Engine again?

Yes

Google App Engine is recommended for small and fast applications that scale, because of some lack of monitoring, it's not a better choice for critical applications with complex scenarios and integrations.

Google App Engine Feature Ratings

Ease of building user interfaces
9
Scalability
10
Platform management overhead
8
Workflow engine capability
7
Platform access control
6
Services-enabled integration
7
Development environment creation
9
Development environment replication
9
Issue monitoring and notification
5
Issue recovery
6
Upgrades and platform fixes
8