App Engine Standard Environment for Go requires billing?

[Agustinus Aryo]

Hello,

I want to create a App Engine in Standard Environment using Go, but why this requires to enable the billing now.

I created several projects in the past using the same setup, and it was doing just fine.

Just need a clarification, is this true that App Engine Standard Environment for Go requires billing?

Because if I select another language like Node.js, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, and .Net, the create billing account popup didn't show up.

Thanks,

Aryo

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Agustinus, 

To deploy your apps, you must enable billing. Your account will not be charged if you stay within your free quota. If your application needs resources that exceed the free quota, you will be charged for the additional usage. Whether your choice of programming language falls on Go or Java, the situation does not change, and you don't attract costs when writing code; costs might be applied once you deploy your app in Standard Environment. You may check the "Managing GCP Projects, App Engine Applications, and Billing" documentation page for related detail. To directly reply to your question, App Engine Standard Environment for Go might indeed require billing at some stage, for reasons just mentioned, if you deploy your app. 

The fact that billing is enabled is not to say that you'll get necessarily billed immediately. Free quota is generous, and you can deploy and test your app at your leisure using the free tier. 

[Agustinus Arya]

OK. Thank you for your answer.

On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 6:13:22 AM UTC+7, George (Cloud Platform Support) wrote:

Hello Agustinus, 

To deploy your apps, you must enable billing. Your account will not be charged if you stay within your free quota. If your application needs resources that exceed the free quota, you will be charged for the additional usage. Whether your choice of programming language falls on Go or Java, the situation does not change, and you don't attract costs when writing code; costs might be applied once you deploy your app in Standard Environment. You may check the "Managing GCP Projects, App Engine Applications, and Billing" for related detail. To directly reply to your question, App Engine Standard Environment for Go might indeed require billing at some stage, for reasons just mentioned, if you deploy your app.