Is App Engine Standard environment acts as a CDN?

[Nagaraj Prabhu]

Hi,

       I have deployed a web application in the standard environment in python project. I would like to know whether Google App Engine itself acts as a CDN or if not how can we connect it to a CDN. I have gone through the different documentation but I only able to find documentation to connect Compute Engine and Cloud Storage to a CDN but not App Engine standard environment. So I am not able to understand why there is no documentation given about that. If GAE itself acts as a CDN is it good compared to other CDNs.

Please help me in this regards.

Thank you.

[Tapir]

In my impression, static files are dispatched through CDN, dynamic pages are not.

[Katayoon (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi,

As Tapir mentioned, Cloud App Engine is a cloud computing platform and is not designed to be a CDN. I should note that you can only serve static content directly from your application, host it on a GCP option like Cloud Storage, or use a third-party content delivery network (CDN). You may also take a look at this thread on Server Fault which compared GAE to various CDNs.