They ship faster on Cloud Run and avoid the works-in-dev-not-in-prod issues they had with Lambdas.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
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They build API backends and websites mainly on Cloud Run and find the Google ecosystem smooth compared to over-engineered AWS setups.
They migrated code from their own website to Cloud Run and found it very easy.
They gave up on a long Fargate setup, tried Cloud Run and have not looked back.
They use Cloud Run daily at work, starting with services, then jobs for CLI workloads, with Worker Pools coming next. They rate it as one of the best parts of GCP.
They like running arbitrary Docker images on Cloud Run without managing infrastructure, with autoscaling to zero and no Kubernetes management.
They say Cloud Run just works smoothly and wish other clouds had an equivalent.
Cloud Run made the difference for their team, letting them deploy a REST API on GCP in a few hours.
They use Cloud Run for most of their apps and love how easy it is, connecting straight to a GitHub repo for FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit and NextJS apps.
As an AWS solution architect they were surprised to conclude GCP has the best developer experience, loving Firebase and Cloud Run.
They find Cloud Run dead simple to use and say it runs their app really fast.
Common questions about Google Cloud Run
Is Google Cloud Run worth it?
Of the 21 reviews with a clear verdict, 67% are positive, 14% mixed and 19% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is resource limits.
What do people like about Google Cloud Run?
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (8 reviews), great value (2 reviews) and easy migration (1 review). For example: Cloud Run made the difference for their team, letting them deploy a REST API on GCP in a few hours.
What are the most common complaints about Google Cloud Run?
The complaints reviewers mention most: resource limits (2 reviews), slow (2 reviews) and outages (1 review). For example: Dropped it for self-hosting n8n because environment variables are plaintext and viewable, and scale-to-zero means scheduled background workflows will not run.
What does the signal score of 64 mean?
It's how well reviewed Google Cloud Run is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Google Cloud Run?
Category: Cloud platform. Free plan: Yes.
Where do these Google Cloud Run reviews come from?
35 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.