Serverless Done Right
Updated July 25, 2025

Serverless Done Right

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud Run

We use Google Cloud Run to run various applications such as our NextJS front-end web app that is served to public users as well as for running various backend applications that typically perform async tasks or run our API infrastructure. Google Cloud Run helps make it really easy to scale up or down and easily deploy docker images.

Pros

  • Autoscaling instances up or down based on traffic
  • Simple deployment of docker images
  • Enables you to easily trigger applications, spinning up a full application for a certain period and then destroying it easily

Cons

  • Time limits on certain invocation types
  • Lack of insight into how state is being shared across instances of the same application or calls to the same application
  • Inability to easily and reliably kill a running application
  • Enabled junior devs to be able to deploy applications with little infra knowledge
  • Less time wasted managing VMs
  • Saved a bunch of time by not continuously running under utilised VMs
The Goolge docs for their products as well as the UI is a lot nicer than AWS or Azure and in general I found it much easy to work with. We selected Google mainly because of startup credits and the support offered but can confidently say we would choose them again without that added perk in the future.

Do you think Google Cloud Run delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Cloud Run's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Cloud Run live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Cloud Run go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Cloud Run again?

Yes

Cloud run is well suited when you need to spin up a dockerised application or any stateless application like a web app or backend API. Its not so great when you have to run long-running or stateful applications (but I think that's well documented). I would also say its preferred for applications or tasks that don't require massive amounts of computing or RAM. Its better at running smaller applications that are horizontally scaled.

Google Cloud Run Feature Ratings

Container Management
9.3
Security and Isolation
10
Container Orchestration
8
Resource Allocation and Optimization
10
Discovery Tools
8
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
10
Self-Healing and Recovery
10
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
9

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