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How much of Google's cloud stack are you required to use to apply for this program? If they require you to use GAE for your backend for example, I think it's going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of startups.

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GCE is a more generic/flexible backend service. Run whatever you want on there.

> Run whatever you want on there.

"Supported distros include Debian and CentOS."

Apparently not. This seems quite limited.

"Include" is not "limited to": https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems

You can use GCE. If you embrace the cutting edge technique. You can try to deploy by docker. It seems deploying the docker image to Google is a good choice

Good question! Is Polymer required? Would a different framework but with the new Google UX/UI design be fine too?

You can run your GAE workloads on AppScale on your own infrastructure (or on GCE, AWS or whatever IaaS you choose).

GAE works really well for massive scaling without needing to worry about infrastructure, though it has some pretty weird limitations at times.

For everything that GAE can't do, we have a GCE instance running to handle it.

One thing I like about GAE is that it encourages good practices. Many people cut their high-scalability teeth on it.

Right, but when you rely on other services that that haven't cut their teeth yet, it becomes a problem.

For example, if you're pulling 50 MB from an API that doesn't allow multi-part downloads, you can't do it with GAE because they have a 32 MB limit per connection.

You can use GCE which is essentially EC2.

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