Google App Engine New Free SNI SSL service Clarification

Question

In the Google Cloud Platform Live Event, Google announced that App Engine prices are reduced; and in their blog site, they mentioned that App Engine SNI SSL Certificate are free with no charges.

Questions:

1. Does that mean that SSL for App Engine custom domain is free?
2. If so, how can I add it? Currently, Google Apps console requires me to purchase 5 slots for adding SSL.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Okay, to answer my own question, google just updated the page with information about SNI SSL in their developer.google.com page, its still not updated in cloud.google.com page.

Anwer is, A up to five SNI SSL certificate slots per month are offered for no additional charge.

to use it, go to your google apps console-> security-> advanced -> SSL for custom domain-> select appengine id to enable ssl and proceed. done.

Answer 2

Answering only question 1: yes, SSL is (and was) free for appid.appspot.com domains. See https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/webxml#Secure_URLs or https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/configyaml/appconfig_yaml#Java_app_yaml_Secure_URLs to turn it on.

See https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl for question 2.