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Cloud Run can be configured to have CPU always allocated, whcih allows for background processing. By combining this with a number of minimum instances, one can benefit from always on instances, not request driven, to execute background jobs

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Wow, this is new. Last time I had checked this option wasn't available. Thanks for pointing this out.

Although it seems it won't scale automatically for background processing, a clever setup with some alarms may have a decent mileage. Nice to know.

Yeah. It’s new. They added it to allow web sockets, amongst other things.

Can a single CR service execute requests as well as background tasks? And can requests and tasks have separate timeouts?

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