Google App Engine (GAE) is a platform that allows developers to build and host web applications in Google's infrastructure. Key points:
- GAE provides scalable hosting for web applications built using Python, Java, and other technologies.
- It offers APIs for common services like data storage (BigTable), user authentication, mail sending, and image processing.
- Applications can scale automatically based on traffic and are subject to resource limits of 500MB of storage and 500 concurrent requests.