Google App Engine

Google App Engine is Google's entry to the PaaS market. Developers are able to build applications in virtually any language or framework, and hand their applications off to App Engine. The platform then manages these applications in terms of monitoring, scaling, and releasing security patches.

Google introduced the world to App Engine as a limited developer preview in April 2007. It could be said this marked the beginning of what is now GCP. Over the following years, App Engine (and its dedicated user base) has played a critical role in driving Google's Cloud strategy and entry into the public cloud market.

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As a platform, App Engine's primary function is managing the underlying infrastructure involved in running services on Google Cloud. Users are able to focus on developing applications, leaving the actual process of running and managing the applications to Google. App Engine has expanded its feature set considerably since its inception. In the App Engine standard environment, developers are able to build applications in several popular languages. With the introduction of the App Engine flexible environment and custom runtimes, virtually any language can be used.