They use Cloud Run domain mapping as a free way to connect domains on side projects; for one pet project it avoided a load balancer that would have cost half the project budget.
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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 use GCP mainly because of Cloud Run, and see GCP as the cheapest and easiest of the big three for small teams and individual developers.
They host a small hobby project on Cloud Run with Firestore and a nightly job, and it costs nothing.
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.