> What Google should consider doing is making App Engine "classic" services like Memcached, etc. available to any service running across GCP. Many AppEngine st

> What Google should consider doing is making App Engine "classic" services like Memcached, etc. available to any service running across GCP. Many AppEngine standard services are accessible using the "cloud" versions of APIs/endpoints. You may have to do some more heavy lifting, although on Flex you get GCE self-authentication for free, and most "cloud" API packages know how to recognize and utilize this. Memcache is apparently on the list to receive a cloud API, although it's been in the "pre-alpha" state for over a year now. See: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/java/upgrading#memcache_service https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/java/upgrad...