App Engine
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Fully managed serverless application platform
Build and deploy applications on a fully managed platform. Scale your applications seamlessly from zero to planet scale without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. With zero server management and zero configuration deployments, developers can focus only on building great applications without the management overhead. App Engine enables developers to stay more productive and agile by supporting popular development languages and a wide range of developer tools.
Open and familiar languages and tools
Quickly build and deploy applications using many of the popular languages like Java™, PHP, Node.js, Python, C#, .Net, Ruby, and Go or bring your own language runtimes and frameworks if you choose. Get started quickly with zero configuration deployments in App Engine. Manage resources from the command line, debug source code in production, and run API backends easily, using industry-leading tools such as Cloud SDK, Cloud Source Repositories, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, and PowerShell.
Just add code
Focus just on writing code, without the worry of managing the underlying infrastructure. With capabilities such as automatic scaling-up and scaling-down of your application between zero and planet scale, fully managed patching and management of your servers, you can offload all your infrastructure concerns to Google. Protect your applications from security threats using App Engine firewall capabilities, Identity and Access Management (IAM) rules, and managed SSL/ TLS certificates.
Pay only for what you use
Choose to run your applications in a serverless environment without the worry of over or under provisioning. App Engine automatically scales depending on your application traffic and consumes resources only when your code is running. You will only need to pay for the resources you consume.
Features
Popular languages
Build your application in Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, or PHP—or bring your own language runtime.
Open and flexible
Custom runtimes allow you to bring any library and framework to App Engine by supplying a Docker container.
Fully managed
A fully managed environment lets you focus on code while App Engine manages infrastructure concerns.
Powerful application diagnostics
Use Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging to monitor the health and performance of your app and Cloud Debugger and Error Reporting to diagnose and fix bugs quickly.
Application versioning
Easily host different versions of your app, easily create development, test, staging, and production environments.
Traffic splitting
Route incoming requests to different app versions, A/B test, and do incremental feature rollouts.
Application security
Help safeguard your application by defining access rules with App Engine firewall and leverage managed SSL/TLS certificates* by default on your custom domain at no additional cost.
Services ecosystem
Tap a growing ecosystem of Google Cloud services from your app including an excellent suite of cloud developer tools.
Solutions and Use Cases
Modern web applications
Quickly reach customers and end users by deploying
web apps on App Engine. With zero-config deployments
and zero server management, App Engine allows you to
focus on writing code. Plus, App Engine automatically
scales to support sudden traffic spikes without
provisioning, patching, or monitoring. Below is a sample reference architecture for building
a simple web app using App Engine and Google Cloud.
Scalable mobile backends
Whether you’re building your first mobile app or
looking to reach existing users via a mobile
experience, App Engine automatically scales the
hosting environment for you. Plus, seamless
integration with Firebase provides an easy-to-use
frontend mobile platform along with the scalable and
reliable backend. Below is a sample reference architecture for a
typical mobile app built using both Firebase and App
Engine along with other services in Google Cloud.
Google App Engine scales automatically to accommodate these spikes, so we don’t need to worry about application performance or crashing due to platform capacity.
Jeffrey Dixon, Corporate Vice President and Chief Software Engineering Officer, IDEXX Laboratories
Our customers
Technical resources
Choosing the right environment
App Engine standard environment
App Engine flexible environment
Install the SDK for App Engine
Java app on standard environment
Java app on flexible environment
Deploying a Java web app on App Engine standard environment
Get started with a simple bookshelf Java app on App Engine
Take a guided tour of the standard environment on the Cloud console
Firebase and Google App Engine standard environment
Firebase and Google App Engine flexible environment
Leverage Cloud Endpoints to connect to your client devices
Pricing
App Engine has competitive cloud pricing that scales with your app’s usage. App Engine runs as instances within either the standard environment or the flexible environment. There are a few basic components you will see in the App Engine billing model such as standard environment instances, flexible environment instances, and App Engine APIs and services. To get an estimate of your bill, please refer to our pricing calculator.
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