CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER · Question #396
An organization has a small development team that has created a web application which runs in a single container. They need a simple, serverless, and scalable way to host their container. Which…
The correct answer is D. Cloud Run. Cloud Run is Google's fully managed serverless platform that runs containerized applications and scales automatically, including to zero.
Question
An organization has a small development team that has created a web application which runs in a single container. They need a simple, serverless, and scalable way to host their container. Which Google service should the organization use?
Options
- ACompute Engine
- BApp Engine
- CKubernetes Engine
- DCloud Run
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A3% (1)
- C3% (1)
- D95% (36)
Why each option
Cloud Run is Google's fully managed serverless platform that runs containerized applications and scales automatically, including to zero.
Compute Engine requires provisioning and managing virtual machines, which is not serverless and adds operational overhead for a small team.
App Engine is a PaaS that abstracts infrastructure but is optimized for deploying application code directly, not arbitrary containers, and has more opinionated constraints.
Kubernetes Engine (GKE) requires managing a Kubernetes cluster, which is significantly more complex and is designed for orchestrating many containers at scale, not a simple single-container app.
Cloud Run is purpose-built for deploying stateless containers in a serverless, fully managed environment. It handles all infrastructure provisioning and automatically scales based on incoming requests, making it ideal for a small team that wants simplicity without managing servers or clusters. It charges only for actual usage, fitting small teams with variable traffic.
Concept tested: Cloud Run for serverless container hosting
Source: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/overview/what-is-cloud-run
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