[hn_throwaway_99]

> App Engine is nothing like Cloud Functions/Run.

This isn't true. App Engine Flexible is in fact very similar to Cloud Run, and my understanding is that it runs on the same infrastructure. In fact, App Engine Flexible "Custom Runtime", which lets you load a docker container in App Engine, is very similar to Cloud Run.

FWIW, though, as a user of App Engine Flexible for Node, I'm very glad this Cloud Run option now exists.

[patwolf]

I've switched newer projects from app engine flexible to cloud run. I do think the underlying infrastructure is slightly different but for the better. If I remember correctly, app engine was using VMs vs pure containers. Deploys to app engine took me 10 min start to finish, but cloud run is around 3.

I used to use a combination of app engine standard and flexible depending on requirements, but I feel like cloud run gives me the benefits of both.