Choose your preferred environment
Standard environment
Support for Node.js 8, and Node.js 10 (beta).
Free tier.
Application can scale to 0 instances when there is no traffic. Most cost-effective for applications that have significant periods where they are not serving traffic.
Fast deployment time.
Runtime image cannot be customized.
Ubuntu OS
Flexible environment
Supports any Node.js version.
No free tier. Application always has a minimum number of running instances. Most cost-effective for applications that serve traffic continuously.
Longer deployment time.
Runtime image can be customized.
Use custom machine types to configure CPU count and memory size.
Debian OS.