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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #221
You are implementing the infrastructure for a web service on Google Cloud. The web service needs to receive and store the data from 500,000 requests per second. The data will be queried later in…
The correct answer is B. Cloud Run and Cloud Bigtable. The requirement is to keep cost low - the quizzer says explicitly that there will be periods where the web service will not receive any requests - my impression is that the quizzer wants by using that statement to point on a solution that can scale to zero.
Submitted by packet_pusher· Mar 30, 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
Question
You are implementing the infrastructure for a web service on Google Cloud. The web service needs to receive and store the data from 500,000 requests per second. The data will be queried later in real time, based on exact matches of a known set of attributes. There will be periods where the web service will not receive any requests. The business wants to keep costs low. Which web service platform and database should you use for the application?
Options
- ACloud Run and BigQuery
- BCloud Run and Cloud Bigtable
- CA Compute Engine autoscaling managed instance group and BigQuery
- DA Compute Engine autoscaling managed instance group and Cloud Bigtable
How the community answered
(29 responses)- A21% (6)
- B66% (19)
- C7% (2)
- D7% (2)
Explanation
The requirement is to keep cost low - the quizzer says explicitly that there will be periods where the web service will not receive any requests - my impression is that the quizzer wants by using that statement to point on a solution that can scale to zero.
Topics
#Cloud Run#Cloud Bigtable#high-throughput ingestion#cost optimization
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