Andrew Walker
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

Hi Sarah,

Definitely have another look at App Engine. We started in 2011 and it’s a different product now.

Local emulation of the stack is one of the killer features. Setting up production in 20 seconds is another.

Paying only $1,000/mth in total for 100 dev, test and prod environments is the pretty compelling for a CTO too.

But the biggest feature of serverless is that you’re not paying for infrastructure people, Google does that in the hosting price.

Biggest bang for buck is to do new stuff on App Engine, leave old stuff on Amazon. It’s hard to justify a straight port because your existing code isn’t written for PaaS in general (assumption).

If you’re looking for non-developer information (ROI etc) on Google’s Cloud, it’s not easy to find. Hence my point about Google’s marketing. This is what motivated my post. They are investing a huge amount in sales and marketing now though, learning from Amazon. So hopefully it will get better soon.

We are in the process of refreshing our generators, sample apps, videos for our updated stack in the next couple of months. We will release these to the community.

Connect with me on LinkedIn and I’ll shoot you the links when they’re done.

I’m happy to meet up with people and share our experiences. I can structure that up into online guidance if there’s enough demand.

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