Python on Google App Engine

App Engine offers you a choice between two Python language environments. Bothenvironments have the same code-centric developer workflow, scale quickly andefficiently to handle increasing demand, and enable you to use Google’s provenserving technology to build your web, mobile and IoT applications quickly andwith minimal operational overhead. While the two environments have a lot incommon, they differ in a few important ways.

Choose your preferred environment

Flexible environment

  • Open source runtimes capable of running any framework, library, or binary

  • Greater CPU and memory instance types

  • Can access resources in the same Compute Engine network

  • No free tier. Application always has a minimum number of running instances.Most cost-effective for applications that serve traffic continuously

  • Ubuntu OS

Choosing an environment

You can run an App Engine application in two environments, the standard environment and the flexible environment. See a summary of differences between the two environments.
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If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how App Engine performs in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

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