--- 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: '2026-07-13' 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 find Google App Engine to be **user-friendly and easy to implement** , enhancing their experience and workflow efficiency. (9 reviews) - Users value the **15 GB free storage** on Google Cloud, appreciating its reliability and wide range of services. (7 reviews) - Users value the **enhanced security** of Google App Engine, ensuring their data is well-protected at all times. (5 reviews) - Users value Google's **top-notch customer support** , praising its responsiveness and comprehensive documentation for effective assistance. (3 reviews) - Users value the **management ease** of Google App Engine, appreciating its organization, scalability, and security features. (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 to be **expensive** , with high costs and complex pricing for advanced services and support. (4 reviews) - Users express frustration with the **slow customer support** , affecting their ability to navigate and troubleshoot effectively. (4 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve and pricing complexity** of Google App Engine challenging, especially for advanced services. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex pricing** of Google App Engine overwhelming, complicating their understanding of cost structures for services. (2 reviews) - Users express concerns about **high costs** and complexities in navigating Google App Engine's pricing and services. (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. Fun interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Quick, works with a lot of software, nothing else to add **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** more complicated than it should be to empty the cache. would like the bookmarks to be positioned differently. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** no **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** i work for a software company and it works best with chrome. im constantly testing and working with it in chrome. ### 2. The Age of Efficiency **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2017 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It is my belief that Google has ushered in an age of efficiency. Their tools just work, are simple, and offer great ways to collaborate remotely. Other products are either confusing or just don't work. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** There was a little bit of a learning curve, and I'm sure it's intimidating for people not tech savvy. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Use it! **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting to collaborate remotely. I have been able to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets without needing face-to-face contact. ### 3. Review from open source GAE partner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Quick MVP's & reliable services. GAE is a phenomenal platform as a service that Google used to create their flagship applications. Making that available to the public gave the tools to the public to allow for the development of web and mobile applications with the brilliance of Google. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The downside of GAE is that you are tied to Google cloud. You are indeed locked in and have limited flexibility to solve problems like getting to China, on-prem, costs, etc. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to create applications quickly and efficiently allows getting new and improved products to market quick. That is a huge win. ### 4. Efficient Fast and low cost. to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It is Efficient, scalable. App Engine is nicely integrated to Google Apps It is virtually unlimited scalability and reliability to use right away. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It does not work with all of google applications that are out there. Finding documentation is not always around to help solve an issue. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Amazon Web services. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Platform as a Service (PaaS) and it is a low cost solution ### 5. E-Commerce Merchant who moved business set up from AWS to GAE **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Femina E. | Software Engineer, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2015 **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. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** It's best to trust for E-Commerce Business or any type of businesses. The way we handle matters and impacts our business. I strongly recommend going with GAE and GWT for all type of businesses. Even we do have Mobile Platforms. GAE is the best ..... in all ways. After migrated from AWS to GAE (Since 2012), we feel a peace in our business and growth :) **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 ### 6. Powerful platform, if you're OK with doing things their way **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy I. | Senior Fullstack Engineer, E-Learning, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The automatic scaling works great. You get a lot of services out of the box, and it's fairly easy to get things up and running quickly. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** You're pretty much locked in to the Google ecosystem. If it works for you, then great. If it doesn't, you're kinda stuck. It's often hard to predict how some of the scaling will affect your bill. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting a large-scale web application. The site is solid, and usually fairly fast. ### 7. Use this everyday! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keely Q. | #SocialMediaGuru, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google covers everything and all their products integrate well with one another. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Since I have multiple accounts I occasionally run into situations in which I have to log out of all my accounts in order to do something on one of them. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** DO IT! **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization, team integration. ### 8. reliable and powerful service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Documentation, tools, general reliability, simplicity The ability to quickly develop applications that runs on Google Infrastructure, combined with the support of docker and kuberneties gives an developer a significant advantage **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I initially found the layout hard to find what I was looking for (i was used to the old layout). Once I learned how to find things it makes more sense now. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** please do not hesitate to try the free portions of this platform. I highly recommend Google App Engine to beginners especially who would very quickly want to setup their applications. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used Google App Engine to complement Google Apps by using it to replace legacy desktop software with applications in the cloud that can be accessed from computers, mobiles and tablets. ### 9. Great for Business and Team Collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google Apps are excellent for business team work and document sharing. Set up correctly, it can be used as an all-in-one for most business needs. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I do not dislike anything about Google Apps. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make sure to have someone who is willing to set this up and train your team. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly having all needed and shared files in one location. ### 10. Google App Engine is a best of breed hybrid PaaS+IaaS... for the right use cases **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert C. | Director of Platform Architecture and Chief Architect, Liaison ALLOY, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** - Extremely low barrier to entry for a PaaS-like offering - Low effort interoperation with Google Compute IaaS systems and services - Hundreds of readily available service bindings available from Google and third parties - Autoscaling (which can now be more finely tuned by an admin if desired) - Easily customizable scaling options - Integrates easily with Eclipse, InteliJ - Well documented CLI's - Admin console **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** - No ssh access / No systems level access (can be considered an acceptable limitation) - Limited ability to manage VM and JVM specs/settings (this is getting better and better) - No notion of file access (easy to work around but can be a little problematic if using third party code) - Google-modified: JRE (which tends to lag quite a bit behind Oracle/OpenJDK), Log4J, and many others... - Less portable application code due to modified libraries and proprietary access to services **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make sure to compare and contrast your PaaS/IaaS requirements with alternatives like Google Compute Engine, Amazon AWS, Pivotal CloudFoundary. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** ** DISCLAIMER ** I haven't used nor recommended GAE with my current nor any of my previous employers. My employer does use Google Compute Services for dev/test environments, but not GAE specifically. While I've used Google App Engine quite a bit over the last seven years, I've used it exclusively as a tool for low risk projects - simple web apps, prototyping, and low risk micro-services used as stopgaps. It's very easy to work with, and the ecosystem is growing rapidly. In the last few years in fact, it's improved immensely, is starting to become a real contender for larger and more critical projects. ### 11. I have been developing systems in the last 4 years that use GAE as the Back End **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leo S. | Wearable Integration Expert, Semiconductors, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It is very efficient, fast and cheap. GAE is a cool tool box that allow us to design amazing architecture that was almost impossible before. I really like to use the GAE emulators, it allows the developer to use his machine to run and test the app in development. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It is very complex and has lots of tools and environments, there are a slow learning curve.. Each product is simple to use, but integrate them is not so easy and the products need a better documentation, examples and tutorials. The admin console is a little messy and hard to use. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** GAE will change your life, it is simple (after you learn it), fast and cheap, but be careful, when you use the GAE, you will be tied with the Google for years, if you need to change your cloud provider, you will need to rewrite your system **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need to receive thousands of small messages per second from a mobile app, then I need to apply some security algorithms and consolidate the data. ### 12. Good PaaS for a Web Application in Python **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel Y. | Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google's use of webapp2 makes it very easy to develop in Python. The console is great and the native GoogleAppLauncher tool and development server are very easy to use. Google provides good documentation for the platform. App Engine is nicely integrated to Google Apps so we can run company domain email and other features. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Google changes the native libraries and deprecates features regularly. While the pricing is fair, it's sometimes hard to understand the exact usage breakdown. We're so embedded in App Engine specifics it may become difficult to move to another services like AWS. Google's support is very limited for a small company like us. We rely heavily on StackOverflow to handle our support. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Be prepared to learn a lot of App Engine specific knowledge like GQL Google Query Language and other things like their TaskQueue. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We built a web application using the App Engine that leverages the High Replication Datastore. The PaaS model is great for us to pay as we go without much server overhead for down periods. ### 13. Developing and deploying applications to production without having to worry about the platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omer D. | Founder @ OfficeMA Timesheet http://www.officema.co.uk, Human Resources, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I've been developing for and deploying to App Engine for 3 years now, developing a wide range of bespoke applications for clients in the Automative and Food industries. App Engine ecosystem is really comprehensive and works very well with Google APIs and third party RESTful services. Here is what I like best about App Engine Rapid Development: The best about App Engine is the ability to rapidly develop an application and deploy it to production in no time. No need for infrastructure/platform knowledge or setup: There is no need for complex infrastructure/platform tuning and installation, simply develop locally and deploy. Automatic scalability: What I also like about it is the ability to autoscale your applications to deal with high demand using a simple Admin interface, you can also define deadlines for servicing requests. Easy data persistence: Data persistence is also straightforward with the NoSQL datastore, which is ideal for applications that are not transactional heavy, for applications that are transactional heavy it's easy to integrate with Cloud SQL (cloud MySQL). A wide range of services: App Engine also offers a wide range of services from identity management to integration with other Google APIs. Notably Cloud Endpoint is an easy to use API that enables the integration of Mobile applications, such that developers can easily develop an App Engine app as a Mobile backend. Builtin security support: App Engine has a very good support for Google Accounts, in particular when locking applications to a particular Google Application domain (enterprise or organisation). OAuth2 support works really well with the various Google APIs such as Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Calendar, Gmail, etc... **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** You need to know what is possible and what is not if coming from a Java background: App Engine runs a customised Java virtual machine so some of the Java builtin functions are not available. For example file access, which means to manipulate or store files you need to use Cloud Storage rather than trying to process them on the server, but as soon as developers are acquainted with what is not possible, development becomes easy. Heavyweight Java stack might not run: Heavyweight Java stack might not run or be really slow. For example Spring Framework is really slow, whilst it's not possible to use Hibernate framework. You simply need to check if the library you want to use does play well with App Engine or not. But once you know what runs you can build a stack that works well. For example App Engine apps work really well with Google Guice for dependency injection (lightweight Spring replacement). Also Objectify library works really well as an Object Relational Mapping (ORM or strictly speaking Object to Entity mapping) to use with App Engine. Tradeoff between response times and cost: You need to spend time to tune your application to reach an optimal setup for both cost and response times, for example how many instances you are going to have idle waiting for requests. What instance types (CPU/RAM) you are going to use, and if they are sufficient or not. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Do your research and shortlist a technology stack that works well with App Engine. Spend time tuning the performance parameters after deployment to reach a good balance between cost and performance. Optimise your architecture using the services (task queues, etc...) provided to reduce the number of instance hours your app consumes. If you set a daily budget limit ensure this is not going to impact the service availability. Avoid trying to re-invent the wheel and write your own code, check the docs first, there might already be a service to achieve your goal. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The clients I've been developing for are not primarily technology companies, hence they don't have/don't want any infrastructure/platform overhead. App Engine cloud based PaaS (Platform as a Service) eliminates the need for any upfront investment on platforms or infrastructure. The ability to scale up and down based on demand also eliminates the need to spend on downsizing or upsizing. For customers on Google Apps it's a no brainer to use App Engine for running enterprise applications which almost eliminates the cost of integration with mail, calendar and identity management backends. The RESTful service-oriented nature of App Engine also makes it really easy and cost effective to integrate with other enterprise systems. ### 14. Focus on the product, not on the infrastructure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan C. | Founder and President, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** - ease of getting simple web-based applications and products into production - implementation using familiar high-level scripting languages - python in my case - eliminates a lot of web-server infrastructure work: installing and maintaining machines, web servers, databases, load-balancing, high-availability, etc - out of the box virtually unlimited scalability and reliability - pricing structure convenient for wide ranges of activity loads, including a free tier - highly evolving PaaS solution - constant flow of new features, improvements, fixes - fairly responsive community-based support - deployment of apps into private corporate clouds appears possible with Google-backed Appscale solution **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** - integration with other Google products is not always simple or even possible - documentation for more complex usage often missing/outdated/misleading - "freezing" the product is not possible, app updates are required when the implementation becomes incompatible with the evolution of the PaaS solution (generous deprecation deadlines are tipically available) - for very heavy use pricing may skyrocket, hybrid architecture (including IaaS) may be needed, even switching entirely to other solution may become attractive - switching to another solution may be quite costly in terms of re-design **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** - check closely the requirements and restrictions of the GAE sandboxing environment, some may be incompatible with your app - be prepared to revisit and adjust your app's architecture - some of the GAE's restrictions may require it - it might help if you don't have SQL expertise (or you're able to "forget" it) - IMHO it's more of a handicap in GAE context **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** - implementing the company's web site - implementing several of the company's web-based products and services ### 15. Pretty good all around cloud solution, with a few quirks due to the nature of cloud computing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean B. | Lead Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** GAE, and now Google Cloud Compute makes it really easy to get a cloud-based system up and running fast. The support for multiple programming languages is great, and the documentation for what you can do in the framework is good. Storing data in a NoSQL format can sometimes result in complexities during design, but the benefits of this data storage format allow for very quick queries, which can be quite useful, depending on your requirements. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** GAE has a few general quirks, mostly to do with data storage (NoSQL-esque), and with timeouts on running tasks. This can quite heavily influence how you design a solution. The admin interface can sometimes make it quite difficult to perform queries on your data, again this is partially due to how data is stored and organised. I can't help but feel that Google could do some work on this to improve user understanding as well as making the process of querying data easier. I would strongly advise that if you are looking into using GAE, you should research it's limitations first as this may either affect your choice of platform, or the design you build! **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use GAE to aggregate music event data from multiple event APIs on a regular schedule. My GAE instance provides a REST API to present this data to an iPhone application. ### 16. Great option **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vik K. | Group Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** scalable, can do code in java, owned by google **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** writing join queries is a pain which are often required in implementing business logic. some of the very basic requirements like knowing the row count in a table is another big pain as there is no way to run a select(*) type queries. This ends up in writing a lot of boilerplate code and often error prone. the building index thing also gets annoying sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** i would definitely recommend it as its great in scalability. No matter how small you are and how big you aspire to be. Google app engine can take care of it. Another great aspect is the company's brand reputation. You will not end up in wasting your entire investment just because company ran out of business etc. On pricing being a non profit, the google was very generous to us and gave good rates. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** we were building a non profit site with features like blood donor management for india ### 17. Crowd sourcing high traffic mobile product! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed A. | Senior IT Architect, Wireless, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Very minimal administration required. Easy configuration for auto-scaling. Google Cloud Endpoint makes it very easy to integrate mobile apps to the server REST APIs. Task queues make it very easy to execute long asynchronous tasks without having to handle queues, it's push queue and the platform handles the execution including scaling up as needed. Mem-Cached is very useful for fast data access. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Some restrictions on what to use in Java such as threading and reflection. Sometimes very difficult or impossible to include some third party libraries. Difficult to debug in local environment using Datastore data. Pricing of datastore transactions and storage sometimes affects coding style while trying to optimize on cost. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Google App Engine helped us a lot in the first 3 years of our startup, if I can suggest something that would be to take care of vendor lock-in as much as possible. This will make it easier and cheaper to migrate if needed. You can start with it at a low-cost high quality hosting solution, once your business becomes bigger, you could move to a more cost effective IaaS solution, Google provides Compute Engine or AWS is a good alternative. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business uses crowd sourcing from mobile devices. The real benefit I see for us as a startup was being able to do quick deployments, multiple a day, while saving the cost of an administration team. As our product grew and we needed more processing power, app-engine (PaaS) seemed not to stand as the best choice anymore, and a IaaS hosting solution made more sense. ### 18. Develop scalable software solutions and let Google manage them for you **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin H. | Senior Infrastructure & Development Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** AppEngine makes the development of scalable software extremely easy to get started with. Even if massive scalability isn't required, it still is easy to create, deploy and manage cloud based systems without having the overhead of managing and running your own servers. Google run the AppEngine platform in such a way that all you need to do is write the core software - you can concentrate on solving your problems, and then when you deploy the application Google takes care of running, monitoring, and scaling the software to meet user demand. There's no real overhead in managing the day-to-day operations. Google offer Cloud Datastore which is closely integrated with AppEngine. It is a NoSQL datastore which is very simple to use and provides great performance even across large datasets. AppEngine provides a choice of language runtimes, including Python and Java. It is incredibly easy to get up and running with a Python program in AppEngine. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** There are some strange 'quirks' to using AppEngine that we have discovered where it doesn't behave as one might expect it to. Some of the scaling behaviours in particular have caused concern for us, and we have had to work around these in the past. This is the downside of a PaaS offering, in that while Google have produced an excellent system that works in 90% of cases, if you do find yourself needing something that is just outside of the tunable parameters then there's nothing you can do about it. The datastore is expensive, as it costs $0.18 per GB to store your data in there, which is 9x the cost of the rest of Googles storage options. On top of that, much of your data is likely to need indexing (for performance reasons) and so this cost adds up quite quickly. Programming the datastore is perhaps one of the trickiest aspects of AppEngine development, as it has certain operational limitations that will prove frustrating sometimes, especially if you've mainly SQL experience. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** The python runtime environment seems to be the easiest to develop for, so if you have a choice of implementation languages this is the one I'd recommend. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have provided many cloud-based bespoke software development projects to clients using AppEngine. Once deployed these systems have required virtually no operational maintenance and their availability has been excellent. ### 19. Amazing. Built numerous scalable and quick to market enterprise applications. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick C. | Director of Software Engineering, E-Learning, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I enjoyed the ease to get setup and running. I thought the SDK was easy to use and convenient to deploy. I like how easy it was to version releases (and roll back). They have an amazing cron service and really easy to use application logs. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I was a little concerned a little bit about pricing, and not knowing how much something would cost. I am not a huge fan of gorm. But I do appreciate its simplicity versus using something like (django-nonrel). We had a lot of issues with aggregations and we ended up having to write our own custom solution to pipe data to a relational database. We then performed a bunch of calculations and pumped the data back . **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were solving small business marketing campaigns. We were able to provide an enterprise message delivery system. The benefits we realized was instant scalability and stable hosting. The cost is reasonable if you have a large enough user base. ### 20. Best PAAS available! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I have used google app engine as an intern for building/hosting a web application for our company . It has a very intuitive Administrative console UI where one could easily manage all their applications. It has all the cloud data store/application settings that can be modified as per user's design. It supports memcaching too. The git repository that is included helped me to maintain code well. The Api's provided are very easy to understand and implement. It offers about 10 GB free trial storage which I found was very advantageous to students. On the whole, it is one place where one could do everything needed for development/maintenance of their web based applications. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The number of options available for storage sometimes confuses users in selection. The debugger console attached could be improved to point out issues to be more appropriate. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Google App Engine provides lots of built-in software packages like Rails, LAMP, Drupal, Apache Hadoop etc that can be readily used for setting up/deploying their applications. I highly recommend Google App Engine to beginners especially who would very quickly want to setup their applications. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to overcome server failures with lots of users simultaneously accessing UIs, and the high replication provided by Google App Engine was very much helpful. We also realized that out code repository could be easily maintained in the Google App Engine itself instead of going to a third party repository. ### 21. The best tool for web apps & APIs, from prototypes to production with millions of users **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** • Infrastructure and services that scale without having to maintain any server, provision I/O operations or spend crazy money on security. • Generous free tier than is more than enough to run prototypes for free. • Simplicity and performance. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** • Documentation can be sometimes either hard to find, imprecise or simply incorrect. • The quality of the GAE support has been decreasing over the past 10 months. Getting technical answers and solutions takes time, support engineers clearly don't have the same level which can waste a lot of time. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** • great features (cloud computing, caching service, NoSQL Datastore, Queue service, map reduce service, etc) • great free tier • easy to use • growing community • great new features coming **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** • Connect and discover millions of singers in the world through our mobile apps. • Serve from 30 to 500 http requests / second, depending on the time of the day. • Quickly handle 10x traffic spikes when we send reengagement push notifications. • Build our own video plaform using the most advanced features of App Engine. • Develop our business and product and be able to control our engineering and infrastructure costs. ### 22. Good for rapid prototyping but consider other alternatives first **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kunal B. | Software Engineer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It's sandboxed and comes with very well set of documentation. This makes it extremely simple for rapid prototyping and deploying. You don't have to worry about any infrastructure setup. Just make your web services and host them easily on cloud with just one click. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It's initial load time is very high. For staging server the first request has a cold start which is not a good user experience for in house users. The production server has this same problem as well (not as bad as development server). The overall performance is slow as compared to amazon beanstalk. It does not scale well once you reach for more than few thousand users. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Not very effective for mobile web services. Might be beneficial for hosting background process. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make backend web service for my mobile app. The only benefit of using GAE is rapid prototyping. ### 23. Great solution if you're willing to adjust and commit to their approaches **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt W. | Senior Software Engineer, Online Media, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** It provides a great platform to build a greenfield project in a nicely consistent, highly cost effective and scalable environment. The operational concerns are mostly automatically addressed and support for development is also provided which makes everything straightforward end to end. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** If you have existing code or other constraints which do not map cleanly onto the App Engine way of doing things then it may be a non-starter or uphill battle throughout. If you have preconceived notions or governing forces affecting how you want things to work then you're likely better off looking elsewhere. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used the product for several different consulting projects where it provided a quick way to generate basic Web applications. The readily available use of various pieces of Google infrastructure and other services combined with the straightforward persistence into the datastore significantly reduced integration time. ### 24. Easy to use & scale but you soon hit a wall **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Panos P. | Advisor, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Auto scaling Stability Easiness of Deployment Auxiliary services especially queues **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Datastore management Datastore queries Private APIs (vendor lock in) Not possible to run popular frameworks **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make sure that there is no need to move away in the future. Try to use more traditional services where needed like Cloud SQL instead of datastore and abstract as much as possible. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was running one of the largest GAE apps (bugsense), scaling at 7000 rps, more than 400M mobile devices were posting data to my app. The auto scaling was a life savior as well as the schema-less datastore. ### 25. Good scalable platform. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep M. | Software Engineer, Semiconductors, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The good things about Google App Engine are 1) Unified dashboard for logs and queries 2) Comes with a persistence layer 3) Plays good with Java (has some restrictions) **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The thing I dislike is that I frequently deploy my apps to tomcat server and GAE forces me to use its structure so the code is not 100% reusable which is a sad thing. I also noticed that there is significant latency (at least in the free tier). **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to power my personal micro services. It is effective when latency is not an issue. ### 26. Web app flexibility without hardware headaches **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grant M. | Solutions Architect, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The fact that the App Engine scales automatically on the backend without the need for you to maintain the hardware. It automatically ramps up and also will ramp down when the number of requests are reduced. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Exceeding daily free quotas. This is something that needs to be tracked by DevOps or the developer. In most cases you should enable billing so that if you do exceed any daily free quotas, the application continues to run. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Use other Google Cloud Platform products alongside App Engine such as Cloud Storage or Cloud SQL. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting web applications for businesses without having to know the expected web traffic beforehand. One of the benefits that we realized is that you can use the Google Authentication system to authenticate your users. ### 27. Worth my time **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kandhla c. | Network Engineer, Computer Networking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** if you into development this is your thing. Easy to create and maintain your app. I would recommend this to beginner and experts. its robust and user friendly. its language friendly means you can develop in language of your choice even scripting. From java to python. There is no maintenance cost. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Few things Google app engine needs to improve. 1) Developers have read-only access to the filesystem on App Engine. 2) App Engine can only execute code called from an HTTP request (except for scheduled background tasks). 3)ava applications may only use a subset (The JRE Class White List) of the classes from the JRE standard edition. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I deal with network deployment. So have to seldom write scripts that help with automation. ### 28. Easy to use and study **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Labeeb P. | Application Engineer, Mobile, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** - Easy to learn and understand - A lot useful inbuilt services - customisation and scaling very easy - Easy to configure - Debug with Eclipse is easy - Easy to deploy. Just one click **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** - I used with eclipse, which need a lot of improvement. - Not documented properly **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used this mainly to prototype an idea. Since no administration complexity and all I was able to concentrate on my logic completely ### 29. Review is outdated (used in 2011) - Great platform, but unfortunately with lots of limitations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vasanth A. | Senior Software Engineer, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Documentation, tools, general reliability, simplicity, python support **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I understood the many limitations around the NoSQL, big table model. But I disliked how poorly documented the solutions to common query patterns were. Not everyone is a NoSQL expert and having to trawl through many forum topics to find answers on "so how do I do this" was not helpful. This may have changed since 2011. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was prototyping a server backend for a location aware mobile application. The benefits were instant prototyping with simple tools ### 30. Awesome experience with Google App Engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I really like the possibilities offered by the platform. Working on many languages and be able scale the plateform on demand. Also the reability of the platform is a great asset. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** The only negative point (if we can call it negative) is the high level of customization. Sometime it could take some test to be able to setup the right environment for the app. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Make sure to do some testing of many configurations before expand your setup to optimize it in an awesome cost/efficiency ratio. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solving a major problem using Google App Engine as we don't need to invest large amount of money and time in acquisition and deployment of hardware for testing and running our apps. ### 31. Got Started Implementing Core Behaviour Quickly **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilia A. | Software Engineer III, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** GAE's Google-powered data storage is powerful, fast, and allows developers to quickly get started with persistence for their applications. Most importantly, its quirks and constraints are well-documented. Furthermore, GAE provides a fairly streamlined way to develop and deploy your application. Best practices are defined so that you can have accurate expectations as to how your app will behave and perform, for example asynchronous scheduled tasks. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Some types of basic mechanisms that developers may be accustomed to using are not available in GAE. Most significant of these is perhaps the inability to write to a file system. While the datastore deals with most persistence needs, not having the option to dump things in files may mean that once-common tasks have to be rethought. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Research its constraints thoroughly before starting. Some of the absent features could be a deal-breaker for your domain, and you want to know this before you've invested your time and money. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The domain in question was an online auction system with fast response times. My basic need was the ability to quickly move forward with developing demonstrable behaviour, and GAE's plethora of features out-of-the-box suited this perfectly. ### 32. I used the software three years back and hence there google might have fixed some of the issues **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Seamless integration with the google cloud. For simple programs, it was quite easy to create a database and integrate it with the application. Another thing that impressed me was the increase in performance and the scaling. If you have little knowledge about Platform Of Service and how google bigtables work, we can optimize the application to utilize the full power of google architecture **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I understand that since the database are cached, its hard to do join operations and delete operations. The new way of thinking is interesting and quite powerful. But if you want to move an existing software to google app engine and if you have a relational database, it was not straight forward to move to Google Big Tables. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you are newly developing an app, you can try app engine, but still I would recommend to try EC2 with MEAN stack or something if feasible. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to host an existing platform as a service on top of google as goole lacks a powerful application creation tool to create business application. We had issues with porting out database ### 33. App Engine Usage **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manu C. | Channels Sales - India & SAARC, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** App Engine gave me option to work for my new work **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Nohting, all is well, product works well **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a Chanels Sales App ### 34. Good to start for simple project **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georgi P. | Mobile Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like mostly the ease to start new project. It takes few minutes to create and upload a project. You can see the sample page right away online. The other thing I love is the free quota you have, so some projects that doesn't have traffic can stay online and you don't need to pay for it. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I don't like the limitations the platform has. You can't create Threads for example. The problem is that once you start using their custom implementation of storage, Tasks (instead of Threads) etc. You are stuck with the platform and the migration will be difficult. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Just be sure you are aware of the limitations of the platform before you start. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the problems solved is that I don't need to support a server that holds some small websites that needs to be online, but doesn't need to have big infrastructure. ### 35. I have used App Engine for demos and proof of concepts **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I having to spend hours managing hardware or having to manage OS updates. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Feel somewhat limited with languages available. In the python library adding third party modules could be easier. The lack of a good workflow on how to handle secure credentials inside of app engine is the biggest show stopper for production use. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** A better documented workflow on handling credentials in App engine is needed. This is also a problem with Docker. Being able to use a VPN tunnel to access resources in our existing data center would also be a big win. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick placed to step and run a app without a lot of overhead managing a server ### 36. Powerful but need to reduce pricing **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** GAE works for all cloud applications esp the ones that are data-led. It gives you a sense of peace knowing that GAE will sale up or down based on demand. Applications don't crash. I don't want to worry about load balancers and redundancy - GAE will handle everything and I pay for the resources I use. Also love that I can run python and Cassandra without any issue. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Setting up billing is a little not straight forward - there is no 1 master account.. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Offer better support Offer better pricing admin tool - 1 master account **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Processing log files in near-real time. Data is stored in Cassandra. GAE takes care of the nodes and replication of data. Pricing depends on resources used. ### 37. Built several GAE applications over the years. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** The ability to use Java and Python out of the box. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I disliked the sandboxed versions of Java that preventing me from using the full language or libraries I had long utilized. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** If you must use Google, then use Compute Engine. App Engine is just too limited if you intend to live outside the Google ecosystem. Applications today need to be environment agnostic. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** My first GAE application was trying to enable customers to get a daily stream of data. I had originally architected my solution to run on Tomcat, and I changed the architecture to run on GAE. ### 38. Easy to get a service up and running **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mircea T. | Lead Solution Architect, CPQ (BigMachines & Salesforce), Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** GAE is a great product for robust apps that have a lot of traffic. It's great for micro-services. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** We were programming in java and there are some restriction to some java libraries and core methods. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Get your MVPto the market as fast as possible with GAE. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to assure availability of 99.99% on our services. ### 39. Google App Engine **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveed H. | Big Data (Hadoop) Team Manager & Tech. Lead - UK&I Region, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Following are the Pros: 1. Ease of Deployment 2. Ease of Management and Administration 3. Ease of Monitoring 4. Scalability Out of The Box 5. 95% uptime 6. Decent Documentation and support **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** 1. Vendor Locking 2. Lesser support for the full stack JavaEE 3. No external tooling support 4. fewer ways of ETL integration 5. sparse eco-system of projects requires custom development for most of the components as per every need mostly for which other platforms have much richer support **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Please provide more detailed implementation of full blown Java EE stack. And also provide support for other NoSQL stores out of the box. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was Event Management CMS. and Cloud based auto-scaled environment were realized ### 40. Awesome for beginner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Google App Engine is an awesome choice for a beginner like me to learn hands-on Python. The best part I like is the free quota that has been enough for my needs so far. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Unfortunately Google App Engine is not an open-source technology. I bet I will need some support and guidance but I believe it will not be free to certain extent. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** For programmer beginners, please do not hesitate to try the free portions of this platform. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am still in the learning curve for developing my project using python. The immediate benefits I am seeing are the ease and the freebies. Thanks to Google. ### 41. Great, but somewhat disappointing due to JAVA image package **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** GOogle cloud storage, free space to store image.. integration of Google API in 1 click and testing them online. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Java image package doesn't exist. I created my image processing algorithm so that i can make it available online. However, Java which runs on GAE doesn't support java.BufferedImage. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Please include Java complete package **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating a Web based image application. Free space to store my images ### 42. Simple and easy at first, got harder after the layout changes but now easier again. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like the layout, the ease of deploying an app, the integration with git hub. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I initially found the layout hard to find what I was looking for (i was used to the old layout). ONce I learned how to find things it makes more sense now. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** try it. It is simple to deploy. simple to administer and gives you a view of what out of your quota you are using and a cost associated with that use. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** One problem we solved was the hangouts limitation of 15 participants. We created a chat room app using the channel api and it works great. ### 43. Great platform for building applications in the cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** How easy it is to get an application running and not having to worry about scalability or hardware. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** I would prefer more robust reporting features. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** I would recommend taking the time to work out what you need from a PAAS solution. Google App Engine should be a strong contender but it does depend on how your requirements align with the functionality on offer. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used Google App Engine to complement Google Apps by using it to replace legacy desktop software with applications in the cloud that can be accessed from computers, mobiles and tablets. ### 44. Great variety of services, reliable but ducumentation is boring **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** They have specialized services for each usecases. Like Sql, Nosql, WebApp hosting, Mapreduce and all these are reliable, fast than any other services. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Documentation and boring tutorials and I think we need to write a lot of code just to get it connected with Google App Engine in Java(Heard it's relatively easy using Python). **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Very likely based on their history to make the products better **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I tried hosting the backend of my mobile application but couldn't get it up and running fast compared to how fast we can get up and running using Heroku. ### 45. I've developed several applications with Google App Engine. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I like the ability to quickly develop applications that runs on Google Infrastructure, combined with the support of docker and kuberneties gives an developer a significant advantage. You don't have to worry about support infrastructure and exclusively focus on the development of your application. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** They aren't on java 1.8. But with Docker, this is a none-issue. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** I love google app engine for prototyping. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a SAAS cloud engineer, so I work in this space. The ability to off load the ability to manage these systems is a great advantage to me. ### 46. I have been using Google App Engine since it preview and it just works. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I am a programmer, primarily Python, and Google App Engine allows me to concentrate on the programming and they take care of the hardware and infrastructure with just a few clicks. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Sometimes I find it difficult to find the specific documentation I am looking for, it's there but I tend to find it through a Google home page search rather than through the documentation search. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** The typical web interface to access the database back-end with the bonus of having the full-text search functionality built in. ### 47. Feedback on App Engine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** - Easy to deploy - Do not have to worry about server/scaling issues **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** - Tightly coupled with Google Infrastructure - Unable to use common frameworks like Flask, Django etc with ease. **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been trying to make social applications. ### 48. Rapid deployment of apps using GAE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles R. | Vice President, Principal Cloud Architect, Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** I love the fact that as a developer you don't have to worry about any of the scaling as my site gets increased traffic, this is all done for me automatically **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** the training material is a bit cumbersome and there should be more templates to create my apps with **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploy POC apps very quickly to a cloud environment ### 49. Excellent experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Its much easy to use because there are already preconfigured deployment environments. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** It could be a restrictive in terms of flexability. **Recommendations to others considering Google App Engine:** Its a great tool for deploying varius kinds of applications **What problems is Google App Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed hadoop cluster setup and batch application ### 50. Midelware platform made by GAE on Java **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2015 **What do you like best about Google App Engine?** Crons, schedualed tasks are most of the things I liked most. **What do you dislike about Google App Engine?** Quota system limited my TESTING phase. 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