Throttling requests on AppEngine

Question

My service sends messages to users, and I want to throttle on the following criteria; Saying a user A belongs to group G.

1. max 5 messages within last hour to user A
2. max 100 messages with last hour to members belong to group A

The number of messages and floating window size are configurable.

Any recommended options?

• Is Cloud Endpoints an option?
• Apigee is too expensive for our service.

More Background:

• use app engine standard environment python2.7
• the request is internal; a app engine service send request to another app engine service

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use API Gateway with App Engine instead of Apigee or Cloud Endpoints API Gateway quotas, it provides support for Python 2.7 and supports quotas like the ones you need.