Python on Google App Engine

App Engine offers you a choice between two Python language environments. Both environments have the same code-centric developer workflow, scale quickly and efficiently to handle increasing demand, and enable you to use Googleโ€™s proven serving technology to build your web, mobile and IoT applications quickly and with minimal operational overhead. While the two environments have a lot in common, they differ in a few important ways.

Choose your preferred environment

  • Optimized to scale nearly instantaneously to handle huge traffic spikes

  • Free tier

  • Ubuntu OS

  • The Python 2.7 runtime is no longer supported.

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  • 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

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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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Try it for yourself

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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