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Return on Investment

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Users consistently praise the ease of use and scalability of Google App Engine, highlighting its ability to simplify application deployment without the need for extensive infrastructure management. Many appreciate the platform's integration with other Google services, which enhances functionality and efficiency. However, some users note that it can be expensive for high-traffic applications.

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Gaurav B.
GB
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Google app engine"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

1. Scalability: App Engine can automatically scale up or down to handle traffic spikes or drops, making it easy to manage server resources.

2. Easy deployment: App Engine allows developers to quickly deploy their applications without worrying about server configuration or maintenance.

3. Cost-effective: App Engine offers a free tier for small applications and charges only for the resources used beyond that.

4. Multi-language support: App Engine supports several programming languages including Java, Python, Node.js, and Go.

5. Integration with other Google services: App Engine integrates seamlessly with other Google services such as Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

Some potential cons of Google App Engine include:

1. Limited flexibility: App Engine has a specific set of supported languages, frameworks, and tools, which can limit the flexibility and customization options for developers.

2. Vendor lock-in: Since App Engine is a proprietary platform, developers may be locked into using Google's services and may face challenges if they want to switch to a different platform in the future.

3. Pricing: While App Engine offers a free tier, it can become expensive as usage increases, especially for larger applications or those with high traffic.

4. Performance limitations: App Engine's performance may not be suitable for all types of applications, especially those that require low latency or high throughput.

5. Limited control over infrastructure: Since App Engine is a managed platform, developers have limited control over the underlying infrastructure, which can make it challenging to optimize performance or troubleshoot issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"App Engine Use for Conversions API Setup"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

The app engine is particularly useful in setting up a server-side URL for sGTM. The app engine is also fairly advanced and can process a large volume of data requests of over 100 million per month. We used this feature while setting up the Meta conversions API and it has worked very well with ease of implementation and creating the tagging server for sGTM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

The setup is fairly elaborate and takes a lot of manual steps, however, the documentation provided by Google and other blog articles is very robust in detailing the steps involved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment
UE
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"An easy to use application hosting platform"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

It's super easy to use and the lerning curve is very small when it comes to Google App Engine. Onthe other hand, the lerning materials and community is vast and there is no room for getting stuck in a problem without being able to go foraward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

Google Cloud Patform itself provide several competetive colutions like Cloud Run and Compute Enginers which is kind of makes things harder to choose what is the best solution for each individuals' need. I wish ther was better way, like a wizard, which helps the users through a setp by setp guide to pick the best solution based on their needs, which will help users to compare the features in each solution and how easy the implementation is using App Engine compared to other options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robin S.
RS
Staff Software Development Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Used for hosting standalone dockerized web application."
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

The tool approach is cloud agnostic. Doesn't require you to know any jargons and jo learning curve is requird to be able to use compite emgine. These are pure Virtual machines which can be in mint condition for setting up required infrastructure for your application. specially favorable during development and initial release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

It can provide more prebuilt configurations based on pipular tech stacks to fast track development deployment process. It takes good amount of time for initial setup which can be part of prebuilt configurations. This can i clude pre available servers based on popular tech stacks eg node java to name a few. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit Pratap M.
AM
Associate Software Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Google App Engine Best platform-as-a-service(PaaS)"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

Automatically handling varying loads without any manual intervention. Multiple Programming language support. Provide the best security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

The test environment is not able to replicate the production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nilesh P.
NP
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Google app Engine | Eazy deployment"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

As per my experience App engine is most beneficial for fast and eazy deployment. Also the scalibility part very responsive. As compare to competitors, we don't have to manage anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

CPU intensive operations are slow and its cost is high as compared to competitors. Also observed that Java application could not be able to create new thread in multithreading application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NJ
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Fully managed infrastructure for your application"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

Google app engine is fully managed infrastructure by google cloud. It helps you build your application without worrying about environments. It supports multiple programming languages, highly available, highly scalable and secured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

Documentations needs to be updated and customer support should be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jay B.
JB
Programmer Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Google cloud review"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

It has user friendly console and APIs, it is reliabl, it provides security feature, It has wide range of services.it is very scalable and pricing is also very competitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

For beginners it is complex to learn and use,some of the services are expensive and it's customer support response is slow sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Wonder application"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

It easy to use, implementation where customer support is also available and frequency of usage is high. Number of features are more, very ease of interigation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

As there are so many features can imaplement more changes to use more frequent and maki more user freaindly so that it could be reached by more and more to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Max C.
MC
Senior Software Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Awesome for software developers"
What do you like best about Google App Engine?

Most of the infrastructure details are abstracted in such a way that you don't need to care or know about them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google App Engine?

The language support is limited. You can use the flexible version but it follows a different pricing strategy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

11 months

Average Discount

26%

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