Hey Lawrence, When you deploy your code to any Cloud it is run on virtual machines (VMs). It is the capabilities of these optimized VMs, and how they can scale to handle any traffic load to your app that makes App Engine <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/> stand out.
App Engine Standard uses lightweight pre-built VMs that run Python 2.7, Java 7, PHP 5.5, and Go 1.6 runtimes. App Engine Flexible on the other hand allows you to create your own runtime using Docker so that you may deploy an application coded in any language to App Engine <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/>. You can find out more information about the differences between App Engine Standard and Flexible by selecting a language on the App Engine page <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/>. Note: if you are instead referring to the older App Engine 'Managed VMs', this was indeed updated to become App Engine 'Flexible' last year. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/ec962a4e-c0bc-429e-a14f-0c87d0b1b338%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
