App Engine

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Makes deployment, maintenance and scalability easy
• Build scalable web applications and mobile webends

Services

• NoSQL
• Authentication
• Load Balancing
• Logging
• Health Checks

App Engine Standard Environment

• Easily deploy applications
• Autoscale workloads
• Economical (Free daily quota)
• SDKs for development, testing and deployment

Requiements and Constraints

• Runtimes for Java, Python, PHP and Go
• Sandbox Constraints
  • No writing to local file system. Only to database.
  • Request timeout 60 seconds
  • Limited third party installations

App Engine Standard Workflow

App Engine Flexible Environment

• Build and deploy containerized apps with a click
• App runs inside docker containers in compute engine
• No sandbox constraints
• Can access App Engine resources
• Standard runtimes: Python, Java, Go and Node.js
• Custom runtime support: Any language that support HTTP requests

	Standard	Flexible
Instance startup	Milliseconds	Minutes
SSH access	No	Yes
Write to local disk	No	Yes
Support for 3rd pary binaries	No	Yes
Network access	Via App Engine services	Yes
Pricing model	After free daily use, pay per instance class	Pay for resource allocation per hour

Deployment

	Kubernetes	App Engine Flexible	App Engine Standard
Language Support	Any	Any	Java,Python,Go,PHP
Service model	Hybrid	PaaS	PaaS
Primary use case	Container-based workloads	Web and mobile applications, container based workloads	Web and mobile applications

Cloud Endpoints and Apigee Edge

An API provides a clean, well defined interface to a complex, changeable implementation.

Cloud Endpoints

• Distributed API management through an API console
• Expose your API using a RESTful interface
• Cotnrol access and validate calls with JSON Web Tokens and Google API keys
• Generate client libraries

Supported Platforms

Runtime	Clients
App Engine Flexible Environment	Android
Kubernetes Engine	iOS
Compute Engine	Javascript

Apigee Edge

Focus on business problems

• A platform for making APIs available to your customers and partners
• Contains analytics, monetization, and a developer portal.