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'''Google App Engine''' (often referred to as '''GAE''' or simply '''App Engine''') is a [[platform as a service]] (PaaS) [[cloud computing]] platform for developing and hosting [[web application]]s in Google-managed data centers. Applications are [[Sandbox (computer security)|sandbox]]ed and run across multiple servers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html |title=Python Runtime Environment - Google App Engine - Google Code |publisher=Code.google.com |date=1999-02-22 |accessdate=2012-02-14}}</ref> App Engine offers automatic scaling for web applications—as the number of requests increases for an application, App Engine automatically allocates more resources for the web application to handle the additional demand.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sanderson |first=Dan |title=Programming Google App Engine: Build and Run Scalable Web Apps on Google's Infrastructure |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-596-52272-8}}</ref>
Google App Engine is free up to a certain level of consumed resources. Fees are charged for additional storage, [[bandwidth]], or instance hours required by the application.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas |title=Quotas - Google App Engine - Google Code |publisher=Code.google.com |date=1999-02-22 |accessdate=2012-02-14}}</ref> It was first released as a preview version in April 2008 and came out of preview in September 2011.
==Supported features/restrictions==
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