Google App Engine Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10

Score

9.2 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Google App Engine are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient Email Servers: Users have praised the email servers for their efficiency in delivering messages promptly, ensuring reliable communication.

Easy Data Upload: Many users find the ability to upload data to web applications effortlessly as a valuable feature that enhances their overall user experience.

Automatic Scaling of Apps: The automatic scaling of apps based on user demand is highlighted by users as a beneficial feature that ensures smooth performance even with increasing usage.

Various Programming Language Support: Users appreciate the platform's support for programming languages like Java, Python, Php, and Ruby, which facilitates development and adds flexibility.

Straightforward Billing System: The straightforward and easy-to-understand billing system provided by Google is appreciated by users for simplifying financial management within the platform.

Project-Based Resource Management: The project-based management of resources by Google is seen as a beneficial feature that contributes to efficient resource allocation and utilization.

Flexibility in Scaling Instances: Users value the ability to scale instances up or down based on business needs, allowing effective demand response while optimizing costs.

Managing Server-less Resources Efficiently: The ease of managing server-less resources and deploying applications efficiently is highlighted as a key strength of the platform.

Cost-Effective Solution for Small Applications: Google App Engine is recognized as a cost-effective and time-saving alternative for running small applications, enabling quick implementation.

Reviews

35 Reviews

Good PaaS Platform with Great Support

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 22, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's one of the best serverless platforms we used so far. We created a small web application on it to use as ATS and also set up an email server which worked very well with good performance and minimal administration. Their support team is superb as they addressed our queries so effectively and fast. It's also very good in terms of integration with other applications and existing infrastructure.

Pros

Email servers are good with email delivery in inbox.
It enables uploading data to web applications.
We're able to manage multiple applications with a single dashboard which has a great UI.

Cons

Some more documentation and tutorials would help a lot.
I would like to see integration with more open source applications.
I would like more options to choose different UI themes.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google App Engine is a great platform to cater to the needs of different size organizations from small businesses to enterprise levels. Due to its great support and the large community, it can be deployed with minimum administration. It is also a great choice for businesses requiring an extra level of security.

Naresh Chaudhary

Staff Engineer in Human Resources at Exarca (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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App creation and management goodness.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization uses Google App Engine for writing, deploying and testing the code as it requires minimal configuration for testing of code and the code gets covered even in production which is a plus point. It helps in mitigating the errors and deploying and testing the code seamlessly to production.

Pros

Apps get automatically scaled based on the users, more users more instances and app runs smoothly.
Debugging and monitoring applications is easy even in production it automatically debugs the code.
It supports a lot of languages like Java, Python, Php, Ruby, etc which adds to the ease of development.

Cons

For beginners, there is a learning curve that can be reduced by decluttering the functionalities.
For much big migrations it takes to a lot of time to deploy which can be reduced.
The scaling of applications based on the user count is not seamless and it requires improvement.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google App Engine is a great tool for app building that provides support for a lot of languages and scalability options when the user base increases by creating parallel instances of the app which reduces the downtime. It automatically debugs the code even in the production as well as sandbox environments which reduces the risk of functionality breaking.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Great for small teams

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using Google App Engine to build and host our web application and backend across the organization. This helps us in building a highly scalable applications on a fully managed server-less platform.

Pros

It's very simple to integrate in the application.
Provides deployment history, so that you can switch back to any instance.
Fully scalable, so that you can add power as needed.

Cons

They can improve on their documentation.
Navigation can be made more simple.
Pricing can be reduced.

Likelihood to Recommend

The fact that it is very easy to understand for a person who is making his/her first step into cloud technology. Auto scalable and managed totally by Google is also a great feature for a small team or a prototype application. So, if you want to get a system up and running quickly then this can be really handy.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Google App Engine - perfect for any app looking to modernize!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have one significant web application. It is used by our entire R&D team across multiple departments as the primary platform for data analysis. We currently have our web application running on Google App Engine flexible as it gives us the ability to run the runtime we need to run.

Pros

Google App Engine is perfect for web applications running a number of services at scale.
App Engine is flexible enough to run any runtime using the flexible edition.
App Engine takes a lot of the work off of supporting and maintaining the application

Cons

App Engine could be a little easier to adopt, but it makes sense given the complexity of web applications.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google App Engine is well suited for a multitude of scenarios. Although it can be harder to adopt then something like a 'lift and shift' approach to Compute Engine and using virtual machines, App Engine is well worth it. It is perfect for application and infrastructure modernization and it's power really comes from its integration with the rest of the suite of GCP products.

Cameron Gable

Software Engineer III in Research & Development at Serimmune Inc. (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Google App Engine lives up to its name!

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deployed Moodle(LMS) and Odoo(ERP) applications on Google App Engine using Marketplace available configurations from Bitmani. We are using App Engine to host such client applications. The Google Marketplace saved us many hours of trying to configure these large applications ourselves.

Pros

Google's Marketplace is a great resource. I did not find this on other cloud services.
Google's billing system is easy and straightforward to understand.
Google's project based management of resources is good.

Cons

Google dashboard is not so helpful. It does not give a summary of the resource like in AWS.
Google console should have something like "Recently visited services" of AWS.
It is hard to install Google Cloud SDK.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google App Engine is great for Kubernetes, since it's very stable and new releases come quickly. Google Marketplace saved a lot of time if standard open sources applications like Moodle has to be deployed and tested quickly.

Google App Engine is not good for beginners in cloud hosting, since it's hard to configure.

Rudolph Pereira

Team Lead in Information Technology at Avalon Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Google App Engine - Easy deployment with no manageability

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

April 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Google App Engine] was used by one department for serving various backend APIs.

Its portability and scalability were the main reasons we used it.

The app-engine manageability was totally on Google

Pros

Fully Managed by Google
Completely auto-scalable
Easy to deploy and monitor

Cons

We need to be careful while deployment, there are some drops of requests
Time in deployment is slightly high
Exceptions during deployment

Likelihood to Recommend

If we have lightweight APIs with simple database interactions then app-engine is best suitable.

No manageability, just write code and deploy

Manjeet Singh

Senior Manager - Engineering in Engineering at Hike Messenger (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Google App Engine - For companies that don't have time to admin machines

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 22, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Google App Engine in production environment for some applications from our health care insurance model. It allows us to focus on developing applications while Google App Engine handles hosting. It is easy to deploy and run.

Pros

Serverless is easy to manage and scale up and down resources.
Ease to deploy.

Cons

Monitoring and troubleshooting are not so easy.
Creates vendor lock-in

Likelihood to Recommend

Google App Engine is recommended for small and fast applications that scale, because of some lack of monitoring, it's not a better choice for critical applications with complex scenarios and integrations.

Kadu Barral

SRE in Information Technology at SulAmerica Seguros (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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A good alternative for application deployment, Google App Engine

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 12, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We at our organisation use Google App Engine to test and deploy dynamic internal contents. As Google App Engine is able to work with multi language support, it is beneficial for small to large tasks wherever we require serverless infrastructure. It is easy to deploy and run comparing to full machine infrastructure, as Google App Engine is part of Google Cloud services, we can use it separately along with VM instances as well wherever required.

Pros

It is one of the best alternatives of full machine for small applications.
It takes less time to implement/deploy or run applications on GAE.

Cons

According to me, worst thing with GAE is it's very expensive when we compare with regular implementations.
It has fewer tutorials or documentations, so a little bit hard to implement at the first time.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google App Engine is well suited for small applications where full customization like in regular machines is not required. It takes much less time to deploy and run in Google App Engine. It is auto-scalable, so Google App Engine could be used for applications which require less or high computing. It is not suited in most cases if the budget is low.

Lokesh Meena

Project Manager in Product Management at FlipPaisa (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Awesome experience on Google App Engine

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Google App Engine as a primary backend of our location-based application. We developed a mobile application to track our company cab live location tracking. So we were planning to store the data to the Google App Engine. From there, we fetch and show the data as reports in the other admin application.

Pros

It helped us to maintain mass data like live location data.
They offered some free quota as well.

Cons

We noticed that sometimes the backend returns the connection exception, but the data is inserted successfully in the database. This needs to resolve as per my experience on this.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable backend engine for handling mass data insertion like live location tracking data of our office cab. This is the well-suited scenario of the Google App Engine in our application.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Serverless Web app platform that includes auto scaling for simpler web apps

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 23, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google App Engine is used in the IT department to host the organization's website, manage the scaling as well as ongoing maintenance and updates, and to build the web application in PHP and Python, serverless, without the inhouse management of the website's underlying infrastructure and platform.

Pros

Google App Engine APIs to build and deploy the web app was straightforward and very easy.
Since Google App Engine is fully managed and serverless, the web app auto scales up and down based on the workload.

Cons

Google App Engine is expensive in the long run and cost adds up pretty quickly.
Since it is fully managed and serverless, you have no access to underlying infrastructure and OS that may be needed for some fine tuned and complex web apps.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a great 'startup' web application platform where you are looking at building a not to complex website that is fully managed without much internal IT staff. It is less appropriate when the web application is complex and you expect large database query sizes/index or workloads that needs a lot of compute, memory and network resources since it is expensive, being fully management and serverless.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience