Google App Engine

Google App Engine was developed as a PaaS for apps and to provide a mobile backend, with the feature of scalability in mind. It is used in cloud computing platforms for developing and hosting web applications. We have two different environments to host a web application: Flexible Environment and Standard Environment. Depending on the features and advantages available for both, any of them can be adopted.

Characteristics of flexible and standard environments

 The following are the features of a flexible environment and a standard environment:

Feature	Flexible environment	Standard environment
Maximum request timeout	60 minutes	60 seconds
Instance startup time	Minutes	Seconds
Background threads	Yes	Yes, but with restrictions
Background processes	Yes	No
Scaling	Manual, automatic	Manual, basic
Writing to local disk	Yes	No
Modifying the runtime	Yes	No
Network access	Yes	Only via App Engine services
Supports installing third-party binaries	Yes	No
Pricing	Based on vCPU and memory	Based on instance hours

 

The application...