As mentioned earlier in this chapter, the App Engine flexible environment is an attempt to find some middle ground between the flexibility of traditional virtual machines and the convenience of the App Engine standard environment. Developers are able to assume control over the underlying infrastructure when needed, and fall back on the more traditional aspects of a managed platform when control is not needed.
The App Engine flexible environment
Benefits of the flexible environment
There are a number of advantages of using the flexible environment over the standard environment. The following are a few of the major benefits, though the list is not comprehensive.
