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AppEngine is more like a PaaS and not like 'serverless'

• seangrogg 9y ago
  This. AppEngine assumes an "always on" mentality and is far from "pay for use" unless your "use" is 24/7.
  • octalmage 9y ago
    AppEngine standard can actually scale down to 0 instances when not in use to save money. Still very different from a serverless architecture though.
    • nothrabannosir 9y ago
      Not the flexible environment iirc. Which is basically the reasonable env to expect, now. Standard env has some aging issues that keep getting worse. most notably jvm 7, if that’s your poison, but just all round crippled env lacking standard libs and with lock in substitutions. As far as I remember, that is..
      • iangudger 9y ago
        Java 8 is now supported with the full standard library: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/runtime-java8 https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/runtim...