ODK 1 on GCP App Engine

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I found this in a 3-year old post on this forum. Is it true that GAE will shut down the instance automatically if it is unused? Does that need to be configured?

@Mitch_S

Google AppEngine is unique in how it manages system resources. If you are
not actively using your application (i.e., ODK Aggregate), Google will shut
it down. Then, upon the next request to access the application, it will
allocate a server, install the application, and send the request to that
application (for ODK Aggregate, this start-up time takes about 27 seconds
to complete). You pay only for the amount of time your application is
active (and for many users, these costs are minimal and less than the costs
to hire staff and maintain their own servers on their own premises).