Google App Engine error 500 on Upload to Cloud

Q: I keep getting ‘Error 500’ when I try to upload / deploy to my code to the google app engine via ‘appcfg.py update’ or similar, what’s going on?

A: Most often this error is caused by problems with the Google cloud infrastructure and as such there is nothing you can do to fix the problem except wait and keep retrying every now and again, the problem normally goes away in an hour or 2. Do however check that your various quotas havent run out.

Don’t be suprised if when you view the System Status table, you see that it is all green – in our experience this status grid rarely represents the status of the cloud as experienced by developers and users. You could report the problem to Google here as suggested in the error message however if you were to report every service interruption you wouldn’t be left with very much time to do much else… ;-)