Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer on Google Cloud SQL, not on App Engine, I'm not senior management and I don't have any particular visibility into App Engine

Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer on Google Cloud SQL, not on App Engine, I'm not senior management and I don't have any particular visibility into App Engine that other Googlers don't. App Engine is very far from dead, either in the "time to turn off the service" or the "it's destaffed but the servers still run" use of the term. App Engine is well-staffed and, AFAICT, is actually growing. They're working extremely hard on getting system reliability to a place where they want it to be. [1] seems to indicate the fruits of that labor, paying off in the last month or so. Now, reliability means reliable for _all_ their customers, from the one person bedroom coder to SnapChat. They have had a big task meeting the requirements of everyone. I can't talk to the bug triaging system of App Engine nor their future plans. That said, work continues apace to get Managed VMs [2] out of beta, and it seems like a pretty exciting new road which may be a custom better fit for larger companies. [1] https://status.cloud.google.com/summary https://status.cloud.google.com/summary [2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/ https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/