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You have developed a containerized web application that will serve internal colleagues during business hours. You want to ensure that no costs are incurred outside of the hours the application is…

The correct answer is B. Deploy the container on Cloud Run (fully managed), and set the minimum number of instances to. Cloud Run can scale to 0: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/about-instance-autoscaling And App Engine Flexible can't scale to 0, the minimum instance number is 1: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-environments#comparing_high-

Submitted by dimitri_ru· Mar 30, 2026Planning and configuring a cloud solution

Question

You have developed a containerized web application that will serve internal colleagues during business hours. You want to ensure that no costs are incurred outside of the hours the application is used. You have just created a new Google Cloud project and want to deploy the application. What should you do?

Options

  • ADeploy the container on Cloud Run for Anthos, and set the minimum number of instances to zero.
  • BDeploy the container on Cloud Run (fully managed), and set the minimum number of instances to
  • CDeploy the container on App Engine flexible environment with autoscaling, and set the value
  • DDeploy the container on App Engine flexible environment with manual scaling, and set the value

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    78% (31)
  • C
    8% (3)
  • D
    13% (5)

Explanation

Cloud Run can scale to 0: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/about-instance-autoscaling And App Engine Flexible can't scale to 0, the minimum instance number is 1: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-environments#comparing_high-

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#Cloud Run#autoscaling#cost optimization#container deployment

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