[shaunparker]

A bit off topic, but do you know if there has been any discussion to bring the search API to a standalone service?

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/search...

[thesandlord]

Not sure, and I can't talk about things that aren't public anyway :)

GCP and Elastic did partner to offer hosted Elasticsearch though it's not a fully managed service: https://www.elastic.co/about/partners/google-cloud-platform