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With appengine exposing instances and cloud container facilitating the deployment of software packages, i wonder how long it'll take until the two merge.

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That's basically what App Engine Flexible [0] is. It's yet to reach General Availability, but all you have to do is define a bunch of containers and a dispatch.yaml file [1], and App Engine then takes care of deploying/routing/scheduling it for you.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/how-...

This sounds useful and revived my interest in GAE. The Go example has health check code. It makes sense. Are there equivalent offerings from AWS and Azure? This looks likes a unique GAE feature.

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