Hi, Both environments of App Engine support automatic scaling. The steps on setting up the scaling will depend on the environment you are using and the language. The documentation here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/flexible-for-standard-users#scaling_characteristics> defines the scaling characteristics of both environments.
In regards to your specific inquiry of automatic scaling, our App Engine: flexible scaling parameters are defined in the app.yaml. You may refer to the following documentation here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/reference/app-yaml#automatic_scaling> for the available settings you can use with Python for flexible. (i.e: min_num_instances, max_num_instances, cpu_utilization, etc) As for App Engine: standard, when you upload a version of a service, the app.yaml file specifies the *scaling type* and *instance class <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/about-the-standard-environment#instance_classes>* that apply to every instance of that version. The *scaling type *controls how instances are created while the *instance class *determines the computing resources. You may find further details of how instance scaling works for standard here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/how-instances-are-managed#instance_scaling> . Also, I believe understanding how your applications are structured on App Engine will provide some insight into the scaling you wish to achieve. The following diagrams for flex here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/an-overview-of-app-engine> and standard here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/an-overview-of-app-engine> illustrate the hierarchy of an App Engine app running with multiple services. I hope this clarifies the automatic scaling behavior for both App Engine environments. -- 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/cbb92b70-6130-48df-9e6a-1c92ae5c6603%40googlegroups.com.
