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Google App Engine

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Spec score 7.5 #11 of 27 in Platform As A Service Paas Software

Spec sheet

Purpose
App Engine is a managed platform for building and hosting server-side rendered websites and web applications.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Security
The product page says App Engine firewall rules can control access and managed SSL/TLS certificates are provided by default for custom domains at no additional cost.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Support
Every Google Cloud customer, including free-trial customers, receives Basic Support with documentation, community forums, billing assistance, and Active Assist.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Founded
2008Read 23 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Diagnostics
App Engine integrates with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Error Reporting for monitoring and troubleshooting.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Environments
Applications can run in either the standard environment or the flexible environment, or use both.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Flexible environment
The flexible environment runs apps in Docker containers on Compute Engine VMs and supports custom runtimes, disk writes, and additional libraries.Read 29 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Intended workloads
Google recommends standard environment for rapid scaling and applications that may scale to zero, and flexible environment for custom runtimes or applications using native code.Read 29 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Languages
The product page lists Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, and PHP as supported languages.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Managed operations
App Engine provides zero server management and zero-configuration deployments.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Scaling
The standard environment can scale to zero, while the flexible environment requires at least one instance.Read 29 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Standard environment limits
The standard environment runs apps in a sandbox that restricts available binary libraries and does not allow writing to disk outside its stated temporary storage behavior.Read 29 Sep 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Versions
App Engine can host multiple app versions for development, test, staging, and production environments.Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com

Plans and prices

Standard environment free tier Free Usage beyond the free tier is billed by resource and instance class. 29 F1 instance hours/day · 9 B1 instance hours/day · 1 GiB outbound network traffic/day · inbound traffic free Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Flexible environment Price not published VM resources are billed per second with a 1-minute minimum. No free tier · vCPU $0.0526/hour · memory $0.0071/GiB-hour · disk and outbound traffic priced as Compute Engine Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com
Standard environment paid usage Price not published Pay for usage beyond the free tier; rates depend on instance class, region, and resource. Instance rates start at $0.05/hour for B1 and F1 · outbound network traffic above 1 GiB/day is charged · related Google Cloud products may incur additional charges Read 29 Sep 2026 · cloud.google.com

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