--- title: Google App Engine Reviews meta_title: 'Google App Engine Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 216 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google App Engine works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 216 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Google App Engine Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 216 ## About Google App Engine Build monolithic server-side rendered websites. App Engine supports popular development languages with a range of developer tools. New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on App Engine. All customers get 28 instances in standard environment free per day, not charged against your credits. ## Google App Engine Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Google App Engine, allowing simple access to documents and seamless collaboration. (9 reviews) - Users value the **15 GB free cloud space** provided by Google App Engine, enhancing their data management experience. (7 reviews) - Users value the **robust security features** of Google App Engine, ensuring safe and reliable data management. (5 reviews) - Users value the **exceptional customer support** provided by Google App Engine, ensuring assistance is always available. (3 reviews) - Users value the **management ease** of Google App Engine, facilitating data organization, billing, and security effortlessly. (3 reviews) - Scalability (3 reviews) - Features (2 reviews) - Flexibility (2 reviews) - Global Access (2 reviews) - Integration Capabilities (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Google App Engine **expensive** , citing high costs and challenging pricing for those with weaker currencies. (4 reviews) - Users report experiencing **poor customer support** , struggling with responsiveness and complexities in navigating Google App Engine's features. (4 reviews) - Users find the **complexity in learning and using advanced services** of Google App Engine to be challenging, especially for beginners. (2 reviews) - Users struggle with **complex pricing** structures that hinder clarity and complicate decision-making for various services. (2 reviews) - Users express concerns about **high costs** with Google App Engine, complicating budget management and resource allocation. (2 reviews) - Poor Documentation (2 reviews) - Difficult Navigation (1 reviews) - Limited Features (1 reviews) - Limited Server Locations (1 reviews) - Security Issues (1 reviews) ## Google App Engine Reviews ### 1. Go Google App Engine - Good Product **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Assures privacy and security of your accounts **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Expensive and Slow. It consumes a lot of time if you use any other browser **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Go for it. Best App free of maintenance and most secured **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** No server configuration is required, no server maintenance is needed. ### 2. Ease of use once implemented. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jake T. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like this software because its implementation process in any digital platform is extremely easy, mentioning the Google documentation is clear and concise, in addition to acquiring extremely extensive terms according to your data center protected in this system, and it does not need a learning curve to learn to manipulate these functions, thanks to its flexibility at a general level, highlighting that it is one of the best complete machine alternatives. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** This software does not provide a full-text search api, in other words we can describe that the documentation in general terms is sometimes deficient, since it is often outdated or simply incorrect when we enter the name of a file to be searched in the data center of this system, not excluding that standard instances could provide better support for more technology stacks. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Google App Engine is great if you want to quickly create and deploy services on a particular website, equally great if the system is in a developer environment, mentioning that it is an excellent search engine based software. Online applications characterized as a medium scale, including in other compelling and recommendable perspectives, that code-centric infrastructure functions are also available. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google App Engine is used in most of our technology training departments to host the websites that we have in the organization, without downtime, in other outstanding aspects according to the subject, which we use it for distribution in the same way of active content for digital publication, as well as analysis and authentication services to obtain a wide range of platforms, mentioning that the problems it addresses in the company are the virtualization of services and the abstraction of the server configuration. ### 3. Great App **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like how it is really easy to navigate Google, and I feel most comfortable using Google for all of my business needs. I used to use Google App Engine, but now I do things more independently. I wanted to feel like I was in control more, and not use the app. I mainly like to stick to doing things on pencil and paper because I feel like I can check for accuracy easier. Overall, great app, but I may want to use it in the future, I am just not sure yet for my companies. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes with Google, I feel as though when there is an update it takes me a few minutes to be able to recognize the new icon, plus new features in the updates. There is nothing wrong with the app itself, but it is a great starter tool for new businesses. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do not think there are any actual problems with the engine, but sometimes the updates make me feel like I am forgetting where things used to be. The updates are great, but sometimes it takes me a minute to remember where things used to be and where they are now. ### 4. Gcp expert **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi T. | S, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like most GKE app and cloud computing most **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Understand the project organization and folder concepts **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Yes, I would like to recommend this product to others as well. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits of microservices hosting feature ### 5. More manageable with google app engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayesh M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Supports every language like java C# and other languages **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** they relatively slow and required little effort to do extensive tasks. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Its easy to use...go for it **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps for easy deployment. It does not require much resources. ### 6. Easy way to deploy simple applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yurii P. | DevOps, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** No need to configure servers yourself, just push your code and guide it with simple configs **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It is limited, but it is understandable. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Of you need to deploy a simple app, you should definitely try it **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting simple apps ### 7. GAE : the good the bad the ugly **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sankul G. | Systems Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The fact that it is very easy to understand for a person who is making his/her first step into cloud technology. Auto scalable and managed totally by Google is also a great feature for a small team or a prototype application. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** GAE ecosystem. Gae comes with its ecosystem and it's very easy to get attached to it. The ease of use of other services such as analytics and stack driver is great but it comes with a cost which can easily go way up. Then there are some versions of languages which are not supported. Gae can stop supporting certain version anytime and you have to keep up with their pace. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you have a small team which is also responsible for development of the product then surely go for it. And if you have a larger team with dedicated person to take care of deployments. Go for cheaper options such as compute engine **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Memes and social media goes hand in hand. Therefore developed a social media platform designed around memes which also provides a comprehensive and powerful tool to create memes from scratch, provide innovative ideas with templates and connect with memers around the world. ### 8. Google app engine makes easier to write scalable, available and reliable applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishva R. | Lead - Software Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The best part is we don't need to buy servers or server space. I don't need to think about maintenance cost. In addition to this it will easily scale and increase the system reliability and availability. Our developers doing the **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** But in fact we have read-only access to the filesystem on App Engine. There are some minor cases, we should have access to the file system when it comes to plug-able architecture. all the components classes should be able to upload to the file system to load it dynamically. That is not possible with the app engine. Sometimes it is not possible to create java threads, I have tested with spring boot and even quarkus frameworks. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** In terms of pricing, google app engine reduces our cost by 50%. Since infrastructure managed by google itself, no need to think about that piece. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Salability, availability and reliability. After all this will reduce cost by 50% in terms of maintenance and devops. ### 9. Great engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Scalable Mobile back ends for mobile app **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Nothing, this is the greatest platform ever. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Great PAAS platform **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability issues were a toss for us so going for a low price solution so we went for this. ### 10. Google Application Engine is the best deployment target for rapid web service development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** - Google Application Engine allows to deploy web services implemented on several languages and frameworks. I used GAE since 2012. My first services were implemented with Python for web2py framework. Now i use java8 Spring Boot because of typed programming language and better framework for robust applications - GAE application is deployed to an environment , sand-box, scalable by default. You get out-of box the same functionality as if you run Kubernet cluster with fully automatic scaling setup at price less by an order of magnitude than Kubernet setup. - since November 2019 GAE applications use full Cloud SDK and Appengine SDK, that was subset of full SDK become obsolete. So now there is no restriction in use any Google Cloud service inside GAE application. In my company we implemented application that uses Dataflow service for data preparation and sharing Datastore service among several GAE applications. - GAE applications are suitable for microservice architecture. Here, each microservice is represented as GAE application. - GAE application deployment is versionned. You can revert back deployed version that serves user traffic in one click. It is life saver measure in disastrous situation. Or it is possible to split traffic between different versions to realize A-B testing, for example. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Honestly there is nothing to improve in Google Cloud Platform. I am just waiting for Google to extend current product portfolio. In my opinion GCP far outperform any existed Cloud platform in sense of usability , price, and features. Note GAE is the first serverless approach platform available for developers appeared in 2012 **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Maybe my view is biased but i think Google products , any of them is the best and trusted. From Google i use also Flutter **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GAE is rapid development tool. Development process is fully automated with CLI utility and thus 100% reproducible. In some cases people who knows nothing about the platform can fix code and deploy it without much instructions. We use GAE to serve customers with data. Each customer has different requirements about the API but the data source is the same. With GAE our customers are isolated from each other and dev team has flexible enough project schedule -- i.e. we run microservice architecture ### 11. Good experience with google integration and analytics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chinmay V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google app engine is very user-friendly. Initially it might take a while to get a hold of it but later it will become easy. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** There so many security issues. Need a little improvement on that. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically, developed all the Web hosting applications powered by Google. The google cloud integration is amazing. ### 12. Smooth and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viktor B. | Owner, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I am using language(s) that I am familiar with. Development environment as well - Eclipse. Deployment is straightforward. Decent documentation is available. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I dislike when platform changes. Upgrading to java7 costed me changing and re-deploying applications that were already working stable for years. The same goes when you dropped support for previous persistence libraries and switched to Objectify. I had to modify otherwise fully operable apps that were tested previously and that run for years without problems. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you plan do develop and deploy a web app using one of the supported languages - just go for it! **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a back end for my android apps. For internal 'backoffice' applications. Now for all web applications in beta phase and beyond. ### 13. Managed Platform Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manan P. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine is a Managed Platform as a Service which supports Java, Python, PHP, Go & Node.js. Deployment in App Engine is straight forward, just need to define App.yaml, run gcloud app deploy command & code is uploaded, infrastructure is ready & service is up and running. Setup of App Engine is very easy & provides lots of option to specify machine configuration. Cron Job feature is also very useful. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It might take sometime to understand App Engine service for other cloud users. Deployment process take comparatively more time in Google App Engine. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Try this service instead of Google Compute Engine. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides managed Platform as a service, so no need to worry about platform setup on machine and scaling. We are deplying our most of the servers on App Engine. ### 14. Google App engine is a true modern day marvel! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Govind A. | Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It is a very low cost and yet efficient tool for web page deployment. Has incredible scaling capabilities too! **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Support functions are sometimes hard to get by, although it's not often that we reach out with support questions. Sometimes deprecations are hard to keep of track as well. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Dont think too much, just go for it! Its the best tool available today for quick and easy web development and deployment! **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** App Engine is a great resource for our teams. We have full control over our app, the way it runs, when it runs, and much more while Google very nicely handles the back-end operations, orchestration, and many other aspects. ### 15. Serverless at your service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Salvatore D. | Analyst Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Requirement are really minimal. All server operation are automagically made by Google, you deploy your code/app and Google do all the rest! Balancing, serving, increase and decrease resources, security... one yaml config file is all you need! **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Easy means that personalization is minimal, and probably you pay something more for this. If you leave that is someone else that configure all of the server operation is obvius that is a service that you have to pay. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** The future of deployment. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** You dont' need System Engineer! ### 16. View, monitor and control your billing budgets using this app **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav B. | A customer of zoom app who loves the service it offers and recommends zoom to all industry people, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** You can see your current month's total cost on the billing page. The app helps you to manage services running on cloud platform directly from your device. Also you can create your own dashboard and see the overview of google cloud platform services **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The app sometimes hangs when you open file from google storage **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Very good with an overview of costs. You can have easy control on your cost through this app **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps your data secure and also maintain privacy. You can trust upon the app. I have saved time since the cloud shell access is provided through this app from your mobile and it is on continous move. Problem related to my project work, any incidents or error can be responded on time since it notifies you on mobile. ### 17. A must have app for all your search needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shruti s. | Tax Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** it is a very fast application which lets us help search anything and everything. It was super smooth and has a very easy to understand interface. I prefer using this application over any other application. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes it does not throw relevant items which i try to search something. It also sometimes provides less info. The depth of information is less sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Get it by any means. You will not remain disappointed after you use Google search engine. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** provides all information which i need to complete my projects and presentations. It throws reliable and detailed information on topics which i need. ### 18. The one stop application for all my needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinay K. | Tax Consultant II - Private Equity, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google app engine helps solving all my professional and personal needs. It has helped me gain insightful knowledge about finance and also helped me clear CFA Level 1 also. I have also started my journey to become an Enrolled Agent. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I have no issues with the app but this should be updated with technological changes. It hangs up sometimes and then it doesn't open for sometime. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** It's a must use app. Please try **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to get a new job. It is an easy and a handy tool and is a very smooth to search anything. ### 19. Run and scale your code painlessly. The best PaaS out there. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google app engine allows you to focus on writing on your code without having to worry about all the underlying infrastructure. This allows for a "code first" mentality. Developers can focus on building applications without having to worry about things like dependencies. App Engine seamlessly connects to other Google services such as data store and cloud SQL. Best of all, app engine can scale as required and can even scale to zero in order to avoid incurring charges. If you want more control over infrastructure, you can switch to app Engine flex and modify the underlying infrastructure as required. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Google app Engine standard requires your code to be written in very specific languages. This feels a bit restrictive and if code would like to be written in any other language, the upgrade to app Engine flex can be a bit steep. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you just want to write your code, have it scale and not worry about the infrastructure overheard, Google app Engine is the way to go. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google app Engine enabled me to simply take my code and deploy it anywhere without having to worry about any infrastructure related issues. This has rapidly reduced development time as before a considerable amount of time would be spent in just preparing the environment for the code. ### 20. review of the google app engine **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App Engine is a good option for developers wanting to focus on coding their applications while not worrying about system administration. Quickly build and deploy applications using many of the popular languages like Java, PHP, Node.js, Python,c++, .Net Ruby, and Go or bring your own language runtimes and frameworks if you choose. Get started quickly with zero configuration deployments in App Engine. Manage resources from the command line, debug source code in production and run API backends easily using industry-leading tools such as Cloud SDK, Cloud Source Repositories, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, and PowerShell. Choose to run your applications in a serverless environment without the worry of over or under-provisioning. App Engine automatically scales depending on your application traffic and consumes resources only when your code is running. You will only need to pay for the resources you consume. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** GAE is yet not stable enough. Even Google says that GAE is the same infrastructure of Google self-internal project. And the budget would increase much when your website becomes bulky. Without a native file system read/write access, it is hard to process some data transform with the existing library, and it doesn’t support some native file system base library as well. It does not provide full-text search API. Also, the SDK/Java is unfavorable with Maven. It is unsatisfactory to accomplish lots of external libraries. The SDK/Java depth rest on IDE, and the default project directory structure is some difference with normal web app. It is not easy to process unit test. It cannot fix the root cause and does not support add SSL to the web site. The GAE may be the development for future web application, but it is not equipped for building a modern web site now. It suffers from the inability to tweak server software. The Filesystem and many standard library modules are inaccessible. Only Python and a few runs of Java Virtual machine. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** limited language support: Java, PHP, Python, and Go. - no true RDBMS support without paying a fortune for their scalable MySQL database - Python is locked to v2.7 ... and Python libraries have to be 100% Python, they won't let you use anything that integrates with any C-based libraries (which can limit things like which framework you want to use) **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** GAE has a great UI that includes a record viewer and a data editor. With Azure, you have to catch external viewers/editors for this. Also, GAE lets you have several sorts of your application running on the same data store. You can deploy, test a variety and then set the current ‘live’ version when you are prepared. You can change back anytime if something goes wrong. ### 21. Great experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Best thing about Google App Engine is the cost attached to it which is a little less as compared to other stuffs available in the market, rest I'm not saying it's easily affordable to every big or small organisation, but can be considered as a good option. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Cloud machines are most of the times cumbersome to check for bugs or some deployment related issues which occurs time and again. Good software and system knowledge is required to resolve errors. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our Cloud based systems are deployed on Google App Engines. ### 22. Google App engine for cloud computing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App Engine is a Platform as a Service and cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Bandwidth, but remaining features are simply amazing **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Google App Engine is free up to a certain level of consumed resources and only in standard environment but not in flexible environment. Fees are charged for additional storage, bandwidth, or instance hours required by the application. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google app engine is sandboxed and run across multiple servers.App Engine offers automatic scaling for web applications as the number of requests increases for an application, App Engine automatically allocates more resources for the web application to handle the additional demand. ### 23. How can a good app become better **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SUJIT K. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The top few answers to the query are good. it gives the answer most of the times. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The sponsored choices play spoilsport. Also the suggestions posted by Google become very intrusive long after the original query has been resolved. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Queries regarding my business requirements and tech details of the products. ### 24. Great serverless abstraction for app deployment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Graham A. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App Engine makes it very easy to deploy an application with minimal manifest configuration and a simple CLI command. It "just works" and your app starts running very quickly. The ability to sort through and redeploy past deployments as well as the logging provided for your deployed application is very nice as well. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** App Engine does not make it very clear/easy to deploy multiple applications to the same service, or whether or not that is even best practice. It's definitely possible, but it doesn't feel as clean as it should be. My intuition was that App Engine was restricted to a single Application per GC project, but that is clearly not the case. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make sure that its abstraction level suits the needs of your Application. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use App Engine for some of our smaller web services that don't get used very frequently but did quite seem to fit the serverless function model. ### 25. Good but could be better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google app engine provides an easy to use platform without worrying about the technicality aspects like scaling. It is the best platform as a service on the market and supports all the major languages and libraries required to get your application running. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Google app engine is still restrictive and even though has all the major languages, it still feels lacking. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use, convenient, if you want to create a web application quickly without worrying this is the best tool out there. ### 26. Google App engine is just the best decision you can take **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pal D. | Technical Support Officer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App engine is just the best decision you can take. It simplified my life bitlg time. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I didn't find anything so far I would dislike **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Google App engine I can finish my tasks considerably quicker ### 27. Great services with variety of integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Best service for hosting your app in cloud and develop it in cloud. It helps building app for web and mobile env. Their pricing model is also very great and cheap compared to other providers. They support many languages, versions, security in platform. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Since it's an ecosystem. Downtown by Google affects all other app too. One app goes down and my depending app also starts failing. This causes downtime of whole app. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped monitoring overall system which helped resolve issues before customer impact. ### 28. Not using currently, found difficult to use **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App engine was difficult to configure for me . I tried deploy my app but some issues arrived at each and every step and it was difficult to manage. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Configuration was difficult to manage and understand. Could not find relevant settings to apply and was unable to quickly deploy. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is managed services and that is best part if the configuration part becomes easy to understand then this would be best ### 29. Best Cloud solutions that provides 300$ trial **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google give the trial of 300 $ with no hidden charges for complete 1 year **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes i feels latency is a problem other wise Google provide best Cloud solutions with value for money **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Just don't think much go for it **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using it for like compute cloud and other stuff that but mostly compute cloud for creating server's ### 30. Powerful, but still maturing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Not having to manage spinning up additional nodes for applications to optimize cost and performance has been a huge asset. There's a respectable amount of language support, but I would be interested to see that list expand over time **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** While not having to manage your systems under the hood is a huge asset, there's limitations to what technology and control you have. Logging has left pieces to be desired, and many internal errors do not have complete enough information to quickly resolve outages and downtime. Even with the most expedient of processes, having to open an external ticket to resolve time sensitive issues can be fatal. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Evaluate your use cases. Product is great for getting applications out quickly in an accessible format. Reduction of accessibility to developers may end up restricting developers in the long run. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal analytics, real time data tracking, collection and ingestion of external data sources. API services for retrieval of data. ### 31. Flexible and powerful **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine flex is very powerful in orchestrating some data pipelines and handling some regular ML jobs. It allows you to install custom packages and scale the application up and down. Since resources are managed by Google, we don't have to worry about the deployment and backend infrastructure, which allows us to focus on modeling work. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Since there are a lot of different use cases for App Engine flex, Google needs to do a better job in documentation. This helps users to know what is out there and make the connection in between App Engine and real business use cases. Also, its packages like gunicorn and pip3 is sometimes not up-to-date. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We handle a lot of our daily ML jobs in app engine, which is self contained and managed by Google. We also connect other GCP products using GAE, for example, Cloud ML, SQL, Big Query and Storage Bucket. ### 32. Experience with App engine **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App engine lets us deploye the code in few minutes without worrying about the underlying architecture **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Architecture is governed by Google and we have no control over it **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Follow best practices while implementation **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lesser time for code be deployed in infrastructure Excellent service support from Google ### 33. Have used it once **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen E. | Automation Technical Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I have used google cloud once for my test project a java web app. It has a good integration with the source code editor was able to quickly get my project running hassle free . **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I have used google cloud once for my test project a java web app. It has a good integration with the source code editor was able to quickly get my project running hassle free . I havent used much of this feature .But definitely want to use more and check what features it can provide compared against other providers. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster code implementation and deployment . Support all features and all kind of products ### 34. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I have used google app for many years, it's a user friendly. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I have use google app for many years. It's easy as user friendly app Google app is usefull for mai, photos, YouTube, drive and fully secureapp **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Yes **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Yes for search engine i use lot work for ux design work ### 35. Honest feedback **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It's very important tool for searching anything in the current world **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** That if it was also have any software application of its kind **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Computational and mathematics, in excel I am integrating these two and quite happy with the results ### 36. Using it from past 5 years extensively **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** best thing is it soves my problem within a very short interval of time **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** sometimes network creates problems and sometimes search engine does'nt gives results to my native language search. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** some work must be **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** strengthen my skills, whatever i needed at a moment it was there for me ### 37. Fantastic service from Google **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Works well for working on applications while nor t worrying about coding. Ease of use. Once your set up deploying and redeploying is a breeze **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Not stable enough . doesn't support some file systems **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Great product ,easy to access **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inability to tweak server software standard library mods are inaccessible ### 38. Google app engine **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Easy to use with all applications that govern under the Google app engine **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Find to difficult the particular module of the apl **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** All finance and sales related applications ### 39. Easy to use but Expensive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad B. | Real Estate Software Development, Real Estate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Its easy to get started and you do not need to worry about it ever going down. I also love the versioning aspect. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** App Engine Flex is far too expensive. The microservice approach is brilliant but it shouldn't cost my 4x than running all my services on a managed VM. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Do your pricing modeling first so you have realistic expectations **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving my monolith to a microservice and breaking speciality apps into containers. ### 40. great for modern apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mikes s. | Chief Cloud Evangelist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** no datacenters, no networks, no servers, no vms, Infra As Code = IT nirvana **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** for new apps, created "in-house" this works very well BUT even today (8-April-2019) our organization still buys/deploys off-the-shelf products. these software manufacturers requests VMs... lame yes, but a reality. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** the Newer you culture & applications are, the easier it is to adopt **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** SSO. E.g. G-Suite, Custom portal written in Java & PHP mainly ### 41. I wanted to do something yesterday, and I worked on it all night, and I managed. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** And Google App Engine was part of that. The step by step tutorials are really useful, and there is pretty much anything one can do.\ **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes the errors and possible probelms weren't explained. Also it was sometimes hard to navigate the very similar docs for ie python 2 compared to python 3 **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am doing a mail recipient reader web app, basically to read the address of people with ocr, and I had it working from my terminal, but wanted to make an app so that people can get it to work for themselves too ### 42. App Engine is scalable and easy to get started with. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sri R. | Data Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like not having to manage resources, specifically with App Engine flex. It reduces devops work and allows me to focus on writing code. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I think the process of debugging issues when trying to deploy an app is difficult. Stackdriver logs aren't always helpful, and sometimes in the console the error it throws lacks context. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delivering real time recommendations to customers online. ### 43. A solid cloud function offering with years of reliable service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** For multiple years a periodic function has run in this environment. Across multiple major and minor version updates it hasn't missed a beat. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Some of the resourcing requirements and implications are a little opaque. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has been set and forget. For a service with a simple database backend and remote web api access it has been solid and reliable. ### 44. outstanding with Appengine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinivasan B. | Srinivasan B - Manager IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** A developer can only concentrate on developing the app rather than thinking about the env, appenine make a developer life more easy, with its auto scaling and ease of deployment **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** running the native env apps are not supported, though with the introduction with flexi its still a complicated process.. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** auto scaling and reducing the infrastructure maintenance teams.. ### 45. Serverless with vitamines **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like how easy is to deploy a full app in gae, you have security, access control, multiversion and do not to worry about scale and ops. The best is the free tier so you can innovate at not cost. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Not ruby support at the moment, the flexible is not good as the normal one. another think i dont like is that take some time to upload your code **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** we develop more that 10 solution everyyear using gae. Almost all problem can solve using google app engine ### 46. Director Sales **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kai r. | Director Sales , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It is smart and simple. Comp. to AWS and Azure for me it is simple to sell. Easy to use and simple to create things **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** i like the product therefore i realy have something bad to saz **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smart, Simple and very fast to use. I sell this often ### 47. looks good **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** power is look so difficut.\\ an vvisal is aloso hard to disgn Need more information in your manual Function is so many We need more information about your function WE need more information about each functions\ Aoso debug function betweem it is easy to view your diagrams But each function is not **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It not visible ABout your help is hard to understaning for our designer Nee more speed between S3 to S3 debug function is not easy **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need big space in our disk ### 48. App engine deployments **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The CLI and its features, easy deployment and local server **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes documentation and howtos are not completely up to date **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Good comparison to other cloud providers **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We migrated a lot of Java applications for our client in the Netherlands from onpremise tomcat environments to Google App Engine ### 49. Granddad Serverless Environment Still Worth a Look **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian I. | Engineering Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine has allowed our small team to execute at a way higher level than we could building and relying on our own infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Older sandboxed environments exhibit the worst of vendor lock scenarios. Price gets quite high past a certain scale. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** IoT, REST APIs ### 50. Google App Engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** richard o. | IT Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Love the functionality to pull from API. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I would not say that I dislike the product since I do not have an extensive exposure to the tool besides using it to power the BetterCLoud app **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improve functionality of the apps we build ## Google App Engine Discussions - [why it does not provide full-text search API](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33508-why-it-does-not-provide-full-text-search-api) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Google App Engine pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-app-engine/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-10+12%3A48%3A09+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8d5b366f-a6cb-45ec-b3d3-231a3288bb22&secure%5Btoken%5D=c707676fd64f7f475ff5206f7ea03d5ef318508f8057709a83161ab9835a2163&format=llm_user) ## Google App Engine Integrations - [Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-identity-aware-proxy/reviews) ## Google App Engine Features **Development** - Application Deployment - Development Tools - Development Environment - Language Support **Database** - Analytics - Backup / Recovery - Storage **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security ## Top Google App Engine Alternatives - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (927 reviews) - [Agentforce 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,784 reviews) - [AWS Elastic Beanstalk](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-elastic-beanstalk/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (177 reviews)