[octalmage]

AppEngine standard can actually scale down to 0 instances when not in use to save money. Still very different from a serverless architecture though.

[nothrabannosir]

Not the flexible environment iirc. Which is basically the reasonable env to expect, now. Standard env has some aging issues that keep getting worse. most notably jvm 7, if that’s your poison, but just all round crippled env lacking standard libs and with lock in substitutions.

As far as I remember, that is..

[iangudger]

Java 8 is now supported with the full standard library: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/runtim...