If the ease of deployment was the only feature App Engine had it would still be worth it. Running "appcfg.py update path_to_app/" to deploy your Python app beat

If the ease of deployment was the only feature App Engine had it would still be worth it. Running "appcfg.py update path_to_app/" to deploy your Python app beats all other options. And anyone complaining about static files and cron jobs doesn't understand that those don't belong on your application server anyway. Google is providing scaling for the application server and the data storage. Static files and cron jobs can be easily scaled. Database servers not so much.