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Hey fhoffa, got a second for a GCP question? Am I calculating App Engine Flex pricing wrong? From what I can tell, it starts around ~$40 / mo (1 vcpu, 512 mb ram) which is 5x over comparable Heroku hobby dyno instance?

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No you are not wrong, and we are working on it. It's going to be a lot more powerful (3.7 GB, 1 full core) than a hobby Dyno, but definitely overkill for testing.

Until then, here is my shameless plug: https://medium.com/google-cloud/three-simple-steps-to-save-c...

Thanks for the update! Very excited to get going on App Engine.

Don't they have a free tier for hobbyists?

There's one for App Engine Standard, but not for Flex.

(Disclaimer: I work at GCP.)

What bugs me most for App Engine Standard is that under Java I need a custom ThreadFactory, when I want to use Standard Threads and use a Google Api. I need to copy the Environment into every new thread I create. Can't they fix that somehow? (Currently, if you want to call App Engine APIs (com.google.appengine.api.*), you must call those APIs from a request thread or from a thread created using the ThreadManager API.) (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/runtim...)

Basically the line is even incorrect since I can use my own ThreadFactory if I'm on a Request/Backend Thread and clone the Environment and copy it into each Thread.

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