No. GAE are two things - a platform and a service. When you launch applications on the Google GAE infrastructure, Google provides an infrastructure maintenance and launch service. In return, you pay them (only if you use more than the free quota). If you decide to install Appscale on your own hosts (it doesn’t matter if they are virtual or not), now you will have to keep things running. In return, you will save the money you would pay on Google.
This is nothing if you had one HTML page that you wanted to serve - you could pay the web hosting company to host it for you, no problem, or you could install IIS or apache on your own computer and do it yourself.
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