I completely agree with your explanations on the current differences between App Engine Standard and Flexible, and why these differences of offerings between the two App Engine environments cause a desire for a type of feature unity to make Flex more like Standard (or vise-versa).
We are very aware of all of the above mentioned discrepancies, and our teams are very hard at work on evolving the App Engine Environments into a state that posses these much needed solutions. 2018 is a year of evolution for App Engine, with such features as the Google Cloud Client Libraries <https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/cloud-client-libraries> becoming more prominent and stable. Our engineers are also working hard on a possible scale-to-0 solution for App Engine Flexible, and are investigating possible solutions for Free Tiers for GAE Flex just to name a few (note that there is currently no ETA for these at this time). Know that we listen very intently and are very aware of the much desired features for our products. We are constantly working hard to fulfill these desires and evolve App Engine and the Google Cloud Platform to be the absolute number one competitor in cloud computing. - If you would like updates on any of these feature requests it is recommended to officially request them in the Public Issue Tracker <https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers> where the engineering teams responsible will be notified. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/6abe79e8-2a32-4873-804a-91de988b27bf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
