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Honestly, that's what you get for using AppEngine, one of the most insane platforms I've ever had the displeasure of using. Hopefully this has changed, but you couldn't even make a raw HTTP request from an AppEngine application. You had to tunnel your HTTP requests through a proprietary "fetch" service. Now that Kubernetes exists, Google should really deprecate AE.

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While AppEngine isn't... ideal, it would make more sense to fix the errors and shortcomings of AppEngine. Comparing the general concepts of AppEngine vs. Kubernetes, Kubernetes is a major step backwards. The promise of AppEngine is that I can basically just deploy my code, and the system takes care of everything else. With Kubernetes I need to rebuild my containers constantly, to do security updates, I have to configure network, storage and load balancers.

Yeah, AppEngine isn't what it could be, but deprecating it would be a step backwards.

App Engine Flexible [0] (i.e. the new version) is a lot more permissive - it's basically a managed container service.

Also - Google is perfectly good enough at turning down services on their own, we don't need to give them any ideas!

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

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