App Engine Flashcards

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What is the difference between App Engine standard and flexible environments?

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Standard Environment

  • Your application runs in a lightweight instance inside a sandbox that restricts what your application can do
  • Can not write to disk or use non-whitelisted binaries
  • Limits CPU and memory options
  • Best for stateless apps that respond quickly
  • Scales from 0 to thousands of instances quickly

Flexible Environment

  • Runs in a Docker container on Compute Engine
  • Can use any language, write to disk and use any library
  • Can use any compute engine machine type
  • Allows for multiple processes
  • Requires at least one instance, takes longer to scale
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