Might be an interesting comment except we don't know what you're comparing it to. FWIW this is the opposite of my experience. To try to duplicate what GAE does

Might be an interesting comment except we don't know what you're comparing it to. FWIW this is the opposite of my experience. To try to duplicate what GAE does in other environments, such as EC2, has been prohibitively expensive and difficult to size correctly. You can actually tune your GAE install to reduce costs by literally twisting dials. Very hard to do with "traditional" cloud and not as dynamic with container-based offerings.