When to choose App Engine over cloud features?

Question

Sorry if this is a naive question, but I watched a bunch of conversations from Google employees and still don’t understand why on earth I would use AE instead of CF?

If I understood correctly, the whole concept of both of these services is to create a "microservice architecture".

• both CF and AE are stateless
• both are expected to be performed for a limited period of time
• both can interact with dbs and other gcp apis.

Although, AE should be wrapped on its own server. It mainly uses a lot of complexities with the same capabilities as CF. So when should I use it instead of CF?

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