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Maxim Ermilov edited this page Aug 31, 2016 · 2 revisions

App Engine is a public web application hosting platform that runs entirely on Google's infrastructure, in Google’s data centers, and is monitored and maintained by Google engineers.

Benefits for Enterprises

  • Scaling to N number of clients is automatic.
    • As your client base grows so does App Engine, automatically.
  • No deployment or management of additional infrastructure in your organization is required.
    • App Engine is hosted entirely on Google's servers.
  • Clients can connect globally using any Internet connection.
    • There’s no need for VPN or corporate network changes to expose services.

What’s included?

  • Web hosting
    • Python, Java, and Go runtimes available.
  • Datastore
    • Built-in, no separate maintenance of a database server required.
    • Automatic replication, failover, etc. and thus highly available.
  • 99.5% uptime SLA
    • High-replication Datastore also means no downtime during maintenance.
    • For more, view the official SLA
  • Admin Console
    • Logs: view web requests, application logs, etc.
    • Quotas: measure and project application hosting costs.
    • Datastore Viewer: UI to access, modify and even delete your data.
    • Permissions: grant others access to administer an application instance.
    • Billing: enable billing, set daily budgets, toggle idle instances to optimize costs, view daily billing history, etc.
    • Much more!
    • Available at http://appengine.google.com or http://appengine.google.com/a/YOUR_DOMAIN_HERE for Google Apps domains users.

How much does it cost?

This is the best part … it’s absolutely 100% free to get started!

Anyone with a Google Account can create an App Engine instance and have an application live to the world in a matter of minutes. You don’t even need to provide a credit card unless you wish to enable billing.

A free instance is likely sufficient for testing and potentially even for small enterprise application deployments. For larger deployments, if you would prefer to be covered by the App Engine SLA, etc., you must enable billing on each instance in the Billing Settings section of the Admin Console. Is there more to learn?

The above is all you should need to know to get going, but to learn more visit the official App Engine page.

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