Google App Engine is Down

Hi all, I'm Zafir from the App Engine team. We're trying to resolve these issues as quickly as possible. For updates, you can follow @app_engine on Twitter or the thread we are updating on Google Groups: <a href="http://goo.gl/wur3v" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/wur3v</a>

Note that the static web serving is working normal, it's the back-end functions that seem to be affected.<p>It's good practise generally to make your web app statically served and be fault tolerant to the back-end not being available, this is certainly required if you want to implement an offline mode.

Today there's an outage, what would happen if tomorrow they decided to terminate all services?<p>Use an open-source PAAS like OpenShift or CloudFoundry to avoid vendor lock-in and give yourself the ability to run your application on your own servers if necessary.<p>Same thing applies to Heroku et al.

Looks like Google's reporting the issue resolved as of 12:06 PM PST. Our backends are working again, so I believe them :).<p>If you run things on App Engine, I highly recommend subscribing to the downtime notify list -- it's much more responsive and accurate than the App Engine status page in my experience.<p><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/google-appengine-downtime-notify" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/google-a...</a>

Seems to be quite minor issue, all of my services are currently fully working. (No errors), maybe bit slow. But that's life.<p>From status page: Elevated error rates and increased latency for some applications – Python, Python: Dynamic Get, Python: Dynamic Get: Latency, Python: Dynamic Get: Error Rate, Java, Java: Dynamic Get, Java: Dynamic Get: Latency, Java: Dynamic Get: Error Rate Jan 15 2013, 07:50 AM - Jan 15 2013, 08:10 AM

My hobby game I'm making on App Engine seems to be up and running fine - Localized fault?<p><a href="http://2.gloopsh.appspot.com/Admin.html#com.rc.gloopsh.admin.AdminWorldMap$AdminWorldMapPlace" rel="nofollow">http://2.gloopsh.appspot.com/Admin.html#com.rc.gloopsh.admin...</a><p>Still got a long way to go, but you can scroll around a bit by holding down the left mouse and dragging. Mousewheel to zoom in and out...

not for me