Adding to what dragonwriter said, we now have an IaaS offering (Compute Engine) that launched publicly in 2013. You get raw virtual machines letting you be agn

Adding to what dragonwriter said, we now have an IaaS offering (Compute Engine) that launched publicly in 2013. You get raw virtual machines letting you be agnostic of Google Cloud's particular offerings. If you're looking for "just run my app" but with a bit more customization / flexibility than App Engine (like running your own RabbitMQ) then yes, Container Engine (https://cloud.google.com/container-engine https://cloud.google.com/container-engine) is our hosted Kubernetes offering. You don't need to manage with the VMs yourself, just choose a cluster size and go. Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine, not really App Engine or Container Engine (but I'm familiar with them all).