Google App Engine Java 8 Standard Environment documentation
App Engine standard environment makes it easy to build and deploy an application that
runs reliably under heavy load and with large amounts of data.
Your application runs within its own secure, reliable environment that is
independent of the hardware, operating system, or physical location of the
server.
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App Engine sample - Hello World
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App Engine sample - Cloud Datastore
This sample demonstrates how to use the Cloud Datastore API on App Engine standard environment with Java.
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Google Cloud API Showcase: BigQuery & Cloud Monitoring in App Engine standard environment for Java 8
This sample demonstrates how to use BigQuery and Cloud Monitoring on App Engine standard environment with Java.
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Last updated 2025-06-27 UTC.
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