--- 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. GAE Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I love the semplicity to use and the beautiful UI compared to the competitor. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Prices are too high, and a lack of a free tier like Amazon EC2 **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make it more accessible to startups by reducing cost and give a free tier with minimal spec machine **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Google App Engine we power our business APIs and our Website. ### 2. Amazing application server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jose M. | Software Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App engine is powerful and I can use with eclipse. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes It is slow, when to try deploy **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to use. We could to develop an application faster. ### 3. Google App Engine for Developers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Greatest upside is its reliability. It's easy to leave it once your application has been deployed. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** For development, it's common to have review apps to be automatically created for each pull request made. This process is not straightforward to automate. Its flexibility also leads to a higher entry for access. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product reliability. Always good to have a centralized platform to see the health status of your applications. ### 4. Super easy to use and lots of good examples/tutorials to get you started. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The thing that I like best about App Engine is that it's super flexible and easy to use. Also, there are tons of examples and tutorials available. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The only downside that I can think of is that it was a little confusing at first to differentiate between the Standard environment and the Flexible environment. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Personally, I use app engine to set up quick demo environments and "toy sites". ### 5. App engine seems to be in flux **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Relatively small stack with minimal devops. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** App engine is in flux, which means that I need to migrate a bunch of stuff (appengine apis are gone!). Also we've been relying on datastore for years so we have a lot of code in that appengine.ndb api for datastore, and it looks like that's changing. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Small apps for our R&D team that ingest data and provide some analysis. ### 6. POC to deployment quickly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The ability to deploy code to production without the friction of internal infrastructure and process. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** For today, we have many use cases that require code to be on other cloud providers and/or on prim and we have to do development multiple times. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying POC's to internal infrastructure can be very difficult, with Google App Engine was able to deploy POC in a single day. ### 7. Truly Elastic Computing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Thats the first Google Cloud Platform Service that I used since 2010, I was a early beta user. I really like the fast and predictive response of Google AppEngine, **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Maybe the first versions was language limited to Python and Java, but currently supports a dozen of languages like NodeJS, .NET Core, Ruby, etc **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Well If you truly need power and elastic processing, don't think twice... Appengine is the truly elastic platform that securely fits your needs. Truly linear costs Truly QoS from 1 user to 1M users or more **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well I've implemented Mission Critical Applications that spike up in seconds from 100 users/second to 50,000-60,000 users per second, like presidential and congressional LATAM elections or cuasi-realtime tax paying balance calculations for every taxpayer in our country. ### 8. easy to run a application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jicheng h. | software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** easy to find a platform to run application **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** afraid to make the system broken. I can't make sure my step is correct or not. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** effective ### 9. Best tool for prototyping **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine is incredibly simple and you can build a MVP in a few minutes. The autoscaling features are pretty useful and you don't have to be worried about **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Python ORM for Python 2.7 has been deprecated and you cannot use it anymore on python 3.7. Develop a very simple micro services infrastructure is not so easy and immediate **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** MVP, prototyping ### 10. Simple and Flexible **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** How quickly I am able to get an environment running. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Lack of support for some major frameworks. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make sure you understand how you will connect internal data points to external data sources when building your application. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to build applications rapidly with minimal resource investment until we are sure it will meet the need that we have for the product. ### 11. Scaling made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I love the fact that it scales and I do not need to worry about servers. The free usage level is great too. It rarely goes down and comes up by itself **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Most of the limitations of the old version are gone. No local storage is still a bother sometimes. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can run many systems without worrying about them. ### 12. Simple to deploy on a robust infrastructure. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine made it easy for us to spin up systems during our development processes. We have used it for testing and production deployments. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** App Engine doesn't make me a sandwich yet. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** B2B Customer interaction, providing self-service capability to our customers to replace manual process. Also, used it for small backend applications that are not customer facing. ### 13. Quick and easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App Engine is super easy to use. Just a few clicks and you can have your app up and running. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Navigability could be a little better. I find myself sometimes struggling to find what I am looking for under the menus. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a Google Partner, this has been the easiest engine we have worked with. ### 14. I use GAE every day **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Generally, it makes spinning up compute nodes very easy and cheap **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It is developer centric and not business administrator forward. however since i'm on the former side, it's good for me. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** You should really work towards empowering the business users, especially in marketing. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with marketing data and it helps me minimize dev time ### 15. Just Code, **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Providing managed features for deployment, memcache, datastore, logging et al **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Not enough support , docs and sample, expected so much community support and clear samples... **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Switch for quick development and deployment **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building and deploying our entire systems on GAE, one of the key benefit is that developer can more focus on development rather than infra ### 16. Easy for developers to get stuff done **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** No infrastructure management is required. Scaling, instance growth can all be taking care of automatically. Just write your code and deploy. Simple and powerful. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Billing is a slightly confusing for large deployments. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Just use it!, you will like it. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Get products to market faster to allow for a faster return on our investments ### 17. Elasticity and Velocity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The speed with which all my projects can be launched is incredible, the fact that my costs have been reduced and how many more things I[m able to do is remarkable. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The general data availability is still improvable. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically all my on prem apps have been launched into the cloud ### 18. App Engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine lets us focus on development while leaving the heavy lifting of DevOps to Google Cloud. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Takes a while to push new code. Sometimes that makes our deployments slow **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've created microservices that we host on app engine. We don't have to worry about auto scaling or self healing. ### 19. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It is a very easy way to solve specific needs for the company, like creating a workflow for authorizations or work reviews **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I would like to have more resources for non-technical users like me **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've used this tool to create special use workflows like authorizations and content review ### 20. Good product but has potential to be great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The platform is very user friendly and inexpensive. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** My dislike is that in comparison to other providers, such as AWS, it is lacking in features. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using the Google App Engine to work on personal projects and learn how to build apps in a cloud environment. ### 21. No-ops application development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine is my go-to for app backends because it's super quick to create something and requires zero infrastructure management. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It really needs support for ndb and memcache in python 3.x as python 2 will soon be EOL. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalable application backends, short time to value realization. ### 22. Easy and quick to deliver business value **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Requires little 'Ops' effort to deploy working code; much of the heavy lifting is done for you **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Documentation could be better with more examples **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delivered a data management and collection app in about half the time compared with doing it in a more traditional environment ### 23. Very easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Very easy to use and to manages. Enables applications to scale. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes deployments in App Engine flexible can be slow. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** App Engine enables scaling and very fast rollout to multiple regions so it's a very good solution for companies that launch services globally. ### 24. Google App Engine review of multiple company usage **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App Engine allows us to quickly spin up testing environments for our processes **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The onboarding process is a bit clunky and makes it a bit difficult to figure out the first time, **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serverless opportunities and stepping off of bare metal wherever possible ### 25. Easy and efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I can focus on the development part only without manage hardware **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Nothing, I think it's a great solution for all co;panies **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not yet use in production, but it could be a real efficient solution for or customers ### 26. easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** ease of use and quickly deploy, the fact that multiple platforms can run on it **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** hard to figure out how to change configurations once the app is running without a deploy. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** deploying apis and web apps ### 27. So far the journey has been great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Enhances our DevOps capabilities to enable continuous integration and continuos delivery in a fast pace environment **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Haven't found any downsides of Google App Engine. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to build our product based on Google infrastructure ### 28. app engine is magic! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Appengine is basic, especially now that it is possible to run custom libs in app engine standard **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** nothing wrong with it, it is just the bast **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving ai and ml problems with it ### 29. The best elastic platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine show my other word in the programming and administration less **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Is spensive to micro organisations in latiino market **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Be carefuller in the moment to dissing code. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** the performance and user experience ### 30. Agile **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Deploy & Forget about it. No more OS updates, Hard drive failures, power outages to worry about. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Everything looks good so far. No further suggestion. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster design to deployment of production solutions. ### 31. Powerful and cheap engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The scability of the instance and integration with other Google API **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The deployment form exclipse sometimes it is slow **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We build some G-Suite Gmail utilities like signature ### 32. The Ease if Google **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Easy one spot stop for all the tools and storage that I need. I can sign on to multiple computers or even at home and retrieve the same information. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I dislike that docs and sheets doesn't always have as many specialized and fine tuning options especially when it comes to formatting. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** From work to family to home to friends. Google Apps can connect all your needs. I enjoy sharing a calendar with my work and family to increase the ease of communication. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shared files for ease of communication. ### 33. Nice scaleable service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Auto scaling and versioning of the services **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Deployment time too high. It will be great if you guys able to minimize it. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting entire ordering operation ### 34. Warming up to App Engine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It's making more and more sense to deploy applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Getting concise information to get started. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bridging API access from disparate systems. ### 35. already made rec **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** ease of use user adoption easy to learn **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** notta nothing to dislike easy to use power **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** end to end app dev for Fire protection ### 36. The best way to manage your server logic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It's so easy to start a server application, forgetting about maintenance or scaling, and it's free if you don't have so much traffic. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The number of supported languages is limited, the communication only supports http requests, and the logging system is not as easy as local files. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for a microservices arquitecture, allowing us to easily deploy and communicate between each service. ### 37. The Google App Engine provides a great opportunity for App Developers to enhance their features **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harun B. | Business Systems Analyst, Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The engine uses the latest features and java interface for powering the program or the developer while providing the required ram requests so that the application can function with fewer issues. This is especially critical in the Beta phase. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** There weren't many issues the company and myself conquered during the test phase. The main issues lied with the developer options which were not as advanced as we thought, as well as, the debugging tools which gave errors a few times during testing. We send crash reports to resolve these issues. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Although my company is currently not in use of the Google App Engine in the Cloud, the feature surely enhances the capabilities of the program by creating the instant availability for any user in the company. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Google App Engine provides great tools to a company looking for a simple yet powerful tool to enhance their application U/I or program. It provides enough assistance to resolve most major issues that may occur during the testing phase. Backed by Googles power-house support system, the program can satisfy the needs of the developers and users. ### 38. Good for quick start up time on a new webapp **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The management of servers so we don't have to is the primary reason we use App Engine. The ease of set up means you can launch a new webapp from scratch fairly quickly without the overhead of needing to understand anything about servers and setting up scaling groups. It also handles spikes in traffics for you which a big plus if you may have irregular traffic from sources. It's also linked to db/datastore services that are decent and easy to set up and link. The free quota is also great for testing an idea website without needing to spend much, if at all. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Google seems to have abandoned this project at some point but left it alive to dwindle on meaning, the any issues and bugs you find won't get fixed. Support help for it is minimal and not very helpful. Documentation is old and lacking. Costs can also add up if you start getting more and more traffic particularly with reads and writes. When the servers go down, which they do, there's nothing you can do but wait because it's all handled by App Engine. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** There are newer technologies out there that you might want to research and explore with better support and features. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Google App Engine as the main host for our e-commerce website. It's great for handling the server up times and auto scaling. ### 39. Developing services with google app engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pierluigi S. | Consultant, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** You can focus just on programming your application, forgetting questions connected with configuring and dimensioning the server **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** documentation very big and not well structured; some crucial info not easy to find **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** No configuration required, just programming Pay for use, no need to own infrastructures Robust environment **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** developing and putting on line services for limited, paying only for used resources ### 40. Feedbak **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Ease of use and the speed that it make to develop the applications. So getting the much required time to market. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** No issue found as it is ease of use and the speed that it make to develop the applications. So getting the much required time to market. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster time to develop. ### 41. You can test any service and developer platform you want **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xin S. | Architect, Human Resources, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** free, full contral, easy to setup, quick install I can deploy my app fast and reward and rolling back as I want **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Can't across the GFW. I must use vpn to acces it. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** fast test our proto free outside bridge ### 42. Time Tested, No Hassle Application Server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prayash M. | Founding Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The simplicity of using the platform and managed scalability are standard now. I love the fact that my appengine application which I started 5 years ago is still running now. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The pace of new features into this product hasn't been impressive. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** WebApp Hosting ### 43. G App Engine **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** GUI with speed is good for working and help to understand scenario **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** process part is really slow to start a new setup **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** To involve more robutness and mapping to security tabs **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** testing small POCs ### 44. User friendly and smooth dev experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** - Accessibility - Easy to Use - Scalability **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** - more training and pre-requisite information should be provided **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** - It was easy to migrate the app using Google App engine ### 45. Marketing and Sales Professional **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melanie C. | Sales Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** * First of all, Google's * Stability and Scaling * No Head Ache or person required to monitor site even on Heavy traffic. * Speed and Suggestions * Dashboards and renovated designs * Multitasking and Memcache * Documentation **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** * Datastore Query and Log System * Sudden downtime and Task Queue Failures. * Tickets raising & resolve - very slow and so many questions before checking details what we shared already. * More Library and jars. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** * E-Commerce * Giant E-Shop Site with Huge number of valuable customers * Low Price with huge services * GAE - Ease our business and genuinely helping us ### 46. Best product of Google **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It's best product which i have not seen as of now. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** nonething i have been used so for but i will in future **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migration if existing app ### 47. Still way to go **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google app engine is good and will take your server management headaches away. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Still, it is not as close as elastic beanstalk by AWS. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you are AWS user you are not coming on this. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was building an application with it. Summary as a Service ### 48. User friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** easy to use and very much user friendly. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** more trainings should be provided to new users **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** we have migrated our old apps. ### 49. experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Good Stable and environemnt is good for the business **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** There is nothing major all good all working fine **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** NA ### 50. Google App Engine review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Pricing is affordable for the scale of web application that we're running and we've been able to centralize the backbone of our software product on this service. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Nothing really yet, haven't had issues with GCP. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** n/a **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed to migrate our server needs to due escalating costs. ## 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=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-07+14%3A47%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=94269585-4064-481b-9ca4-d470db668330&secure%5Btoken%5D=7ab1052801b215352d5040e6937df6f52b727123a4ddbd9fb95670a9058bc3a3&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 (3,782 reviews) - [AWS Elastic Beanstalk](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-elastic-beanstalk/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (177 reviews)