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Google App Engine

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4.2
Market Presence: Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms), Cloud Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Platforms)

Overview

Product Information on Google App Engine

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Google App Engine?

Google App Engine is a cloud-based software that enables developers to build and deploy applications using a range of supported programming languages and frameworks. The software provides an environment for automatic scaling, manages infrastructure needs such as load balancing, monitoring, and security updates, and offers integrated development tools and APIs. It is designed to support web and mobile application development, allowing users to focus on code without managing server hardware or networking tasks. Google App Engine addresses the business need for scalable application hosting, automated resource management, and simplified deployment processes within cloud environments.

Google App Engine Pricing

Google App Engine is a software that uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the resources consumed, such as compute instance hours, storage, and outgoing network traffic, with free tier quotas available.

Overall experience with Google App Engine

DEVOPS ENGINEER
250M - 500M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“A simplified app hosting GCP managed service with auto-scaling and high performance.”

4.0
Oct 6, 2024
Google App Engine is an offering of GCP which is a managed platform as a service that lets us deploy our application without getting worried about the infrastructure management it is completed managed by the GCP. This allows our team members to completely focus on creating and writing better code, building, testing, and deploying applications to deliver high quality applications. It removes all the complexities of managing the underlying infrastructure, scaling resources, load balancing configuration, server upgrades and patching activities from our team and gives us the ability to entirely focus on writing clean code with better system design of an application to build high quality products for our end users and customers.
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

Company Details

Updated 11th November 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1998
Head office location
Mountain View, CA, United States
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
www.google.com

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Performance of Google App Engine Across Market Features

Google App Engine Likes & Dislikes

Like

High quality infrastructure management with enhanced security. Auto-Scaling and Load Balancing to server the users at all times. Multiple environmental support is given like Standard and Flexible that teams can select as per their use-cases.

Like

ease of use performance drive scalable

Like

1. For the deployment of any software, It only requires you to create an app.yaml file and it uses a really easy to understand syntax. 2. It also provide a cron.yaml file that can be used to schedule processes to run at certain time. 3. All the Version of services are shown in a really nice GUI that allows easy maintenance of different versions. 4. App Engine provides easy and fast traffic splitting and switching.

Dislike

Flexible environments offer advanced features but incur high costs to use. Users need time to learn and implement those who are in the new GCP cloud. During the cold start time duration the application are not accessible.

Dislike

customer service expensive spam

Dislike

1. Deployment process takes a lot of time, some times in ball park of 10 minutes. 2. There are times when deployment process fails due to any internet changes. 3. Google app engine version control does not allow you to start of stop multiple version at the same time. You have to wait for around 5 mins for each version to shut down or start up before you can task the next version to do the same.

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Google App Engine Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 40 ratings and reviews for Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms) market. View all 41 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.2

(40 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
55%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • DEVOPS ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    A simplified app hosting GCP managed service with auto-scaling and high performance.

    4.0
    Oct 6, 2024
    Google App Engine is an offering of GCP which is a managed platform as a service that lets us deploy our application without getting worried about the infrastructure management it is completed managed by the GCP. This allows our team members to completely focus on creating and writing better code, building, testing, and deploying applications to deliver high quality applications. It removes all the complexities of managing the underlying infrastructure, scaling resources, load balancing configuration, server upgrades and patching activities from our team and gives us the ability to entirely focus on writing clean code with better system design of an application to build high quality products for our end users and customers.
  • ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Google engine- Reliable or rhetorical

    4.0
    Sep 28, 2022
    google app engine is highly reliable. Its easy to use and performance driven
  • APPLICATION ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Highly Scalable Software for Deployment

    4.0
    Apr 12, 2022
    I have been using App Engine for both my frontend and backend deployment. Besides few drawbacks, there is no issue with downtime, and the Logging functionality helps a lot with status.
  • IT System Admin
    50M-1B USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    A cheap, reliable and fast platform for developers.

    4.0
    Feb 7, 2020
    I have been using this platform for about 2 years. When it first came out, it supported less languages, but java support was especially important to me. We carry out especially the test procedures of our applications here. Obviously it can fulfill our business needs without any problems.
  • Senior QA Analyst
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    "Powerfull tool to manage multiple instances'

    5.0
    Feb 6, 2020
    It Manages my application server in all the language like C# and NodJS we are using docker as engine we can easyly upload the code using google app we use visual studio code IDE we are merging the code using github it creates different version application which is easy for us track Google app engine manages multiple instances with good performance Server Space is more
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