I work on Google Cloud Platform, and I don't see any of the things you mentioned about App Engine. If you want a larger memory footprint, I suggest you look at

I work on Google Cloud Platform, and I don't see any of the things you mentioned about App Engine. If you want a larger memory footprint, I suggest you look at the Flexible Environment (formerly Managed VMs), which lets you use any size VM you like. We also have new Cloud Platform client libraries for many languages - start at https://cloud.google.com/docs/ https://cloud.google.com/docs/ for Go, PHP, Java, Python, .NET, Ruby and Javascript (Node.js) App Engine hasn't stood still. I'd encourage you to take another look.