[google-appengine] inconsistent daily "frontend instance" costs

Every day, I look at the appengine quota page, an hour before it's about to reset for the day, and it's sitting well below the 28h free-tier limit, yet the next day, I check billing for the previous day and I have ~1$ of charges, which at $0.05/hour, that means 20 hours of extra time. So unless

[google-appengine] Re: inconsistent daily "frontend instance" costs

Hello, maybe it is due to your instance class. If I remember correctly one hour of an F2 is billed as two hours and F4 is billed as 4 hours. I think the base idea is that one hour represents one hour of F1. There is this part of the doc that helped us understand our cost when we are facing the

[google-appengine] Question about dispatch & backends

I have an app with a frontend UX that queries some backend APIs for information. Some of these APIs need more than 60 seconds to complete their work. I *thought* I could solve this by doing the following: 1. Run the code on a B8 instance with a different service name 2. Set up dispatch.yaml to

[google-appengine] Re: inconsistent daily "frontend instance" costs

I don't think so, since again, the billing section on the AppEngine Dashboard generally takes that into account, in my experience. But yes I've also verified that it is F1. Again last night, when I wrote this email at 3am, the counter was at 24.5h

[google-appengine] Re: Question about dispatch & backends

Hello Joshua, I understand that your program uses APIs that need more than 60 seconds to complete but even though you are using B8 instances in App Engine, your program times out past the 60 seconds. I’m assuming you are using App Engine Standard. To find supporting documentation for you, can