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Cloud Run is a great service. I find it much easier to work with than AWS's equivalent (ECS/Fargate.)

AWS AppRunner is the closest equivalent to Cloud Run. Its really not close though, AppRunner is an unloved service at AWS and is missing a lot of the features that make Cloud Run nice.

AppRunner was Amazon's answer to AppEngine a full decade+ later. Cloud Run is miles ahead.

I agree with the unloved part. It was a great middle ground between Lambda and Fargate (zero cold start, reasonable pricing), but has seemingly been in maintenance mode for quite a while now. Really sad to see.

i am biased, but i agree :)

hah. I looked at your comments and saw you were a google VP! I've migrated some small systems from AWS to GCP for various POCs and prototypes, mostly Lambda and ECS to Cloud Run, and find GCP provides a better developer experience overall.

love that you're enjoying the devex. we put a lot of sweat into it, especially in services like cloud run.

Yeah, anyone who uses GCP and AWS thoroughly will agree that GCP is a superior developer experience.

The problem is continuous product churn. This was discussed at length at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614795

I think Lambda is more or less the AWS equivalent.

It's not. Cloud Run can be longer running: you can have batch and services. Lambda is closer to Cloud Functions.

I think Cloud Run Functions would be the direct equivalent to Lambda.

I agree, but in the GCP world, a lot of these things are merging. My understanding is that Cloud Run, Cloud Run Functions (previously known as Cloud Functions Gen2) and even App Engine Flexible all run in the same underlying cloud run infrastructure, so it's essentially just some interface differences that to me now seem more like historical legacy/backwards compatibility reasons than meaningful functionality differences (e.g. Functions can now handle multiple concurrent requests).

FWIW, App Engine Flexible is a different product that runs on GCE VM.

Other products (App Engine standard, Cloud Functions gen1, Cloud Run, Cloud Run Functions) share many underlying infrastructures.

Oh, thanks! I guess I had it backwards - I thought App Engine standard was the one on a different infrastructure.

Oh, you’re probably right.

Eh idk Cloud Run is much better suited to long running instances than Lambda. You would use Cloud Functions for those types of workloads in GCP.

For those who don't know, AWS Lambda functions have a hard limit of 15 minutes.

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