We're a SaaS platform running on App Engine and were part of the early-access program. Porting over our Python 3 based platform from App Engine Flex to AE Standard took just a few hours - only tweaks needed were to the YAML config files and rewrite our deployment scripts after creating a new environment and project.
We still maintain a docker-based environment on AWS EBS which we were able to port over as well.
Overall a fantastic experience. The App Engine Standard team provided stellar support too.
We did notice pure CPU performance on AE standard to be less than dedicated AE Flex instances, but on a price/performance ratio AE standard is 10X better for infrequently accessed micro-services which will allow us to migrate some of these to standard for great cost savings - as well as ramp up auto-scale to handle spikes automagically.
With Python 2 becoming officially deprecated in 2020 this means App Engine Standard just got a huge boost in long term relevance. Great for developers who want to deploy without having to deal with infrastructure.
Good to hear that AE standard - i.e. this vision of a 0-effort Python deployment support - is still relevant after all the Kubernetes-related announcements at Google Next.
We still maintain a docker-based environment on AWS EBS which we were able to port over as well. Overall a fantastic experience. The App Engine Standard team provided stellar support too.
We did notice pure CPU performance on AE standard to be less than dedicated AE Flex instances, but on a price/performance ratio AE standard is 10X better for infrequently accessed micro-services which will allow us to migrate some of these to standard for great cost savings - as well as ramp up auto-scale to handle spikes automagically.
With Python 2 becoming officially deprecated in 2020 this means App Engine Standard just got a huge boost in long term relevance. Great for developers who want to deploy without having to deal with infrastructure.
Good to hear that AE standard - i.e. this vision of a 0-effort Python deployment support - is still relevant after all the Kubernetes-related announcements at Google Next.