I deployed an app to GAE in the Flex environment and after playing around for a while, I stopped the service from serving requests (did not disable the app though). Will I still be charged for anything?

CodePudding user response：

As described in the Pricing Page, App Engine is only billed by running instances. In the specific case of GAE Flex for the VM underneath.

Therefore if the service is stopped it will scale down to zero and its compute resources will get deleted. Therefore it shall not generate any charges as a stopped service has no running instances.

However keep in mind that default service cannot be stopped and to stop that particular service you would need to disable the App.