Google Cloud

Cloud Run, BigQuery and the ML-heavy end of infrastructure

cloud.google.com · Pay-as-you-go; Cloud Run free tier

Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Run (serverless containers), BigQuery analytics, Firestore, and the Gemini API family under one billing account.

Capabilities

Capabilities

  • Cloud Run: serverless Docker containers that scale to zero (best-in-class)
  • BigQuery for analytics at scale; Firestore document DB; Vertex/Gemini AI

Best for

  • Serverless container workloads (Cloud Run free tier is generous)
  • Data/analytics-heavy clones

Not for

  • Simple static/edge apps — Cloudflare is simpler and cheaper