GCP Cloud Run is like the best of both worlds between AWS ECS Fargate and AWS Lambda. (Yes, the comment is in the context of containers. Sort of.)
* Like Fargate, Cloud Run hosts containers and takes care of figuring out where they actually live. Unlike Fargate, you don't have to say exactly how many containers you want running at once; GCP will automatically scale the # of containers up and down based on HTTP load and will scale down to 0. This should make Cloud Run cheaper than Fargate. (If you want to hook up Fargate to a webserver and you don't have autoscale figured out, you'll have to keep a lot of workers alive doing nothing.)
* Like Lambda, Cloud Run bills by the amount of time spent processing at least one request. But unlike Lambda, Cloud Run lets one container handle more than one request at a time (it sucks to have to spin up a lot of Lambda invocations that do a bunch of IO). Web servers that are good at concurrency shine here. This should save money.
* Cloud Run has more generous limits in many respects than Lambda. Cloud Run lets you set up SIGTERM hooks, so you can do some cleanup logic in your container (to e.g. write performance data to a timeseries table or whatever).
That's Cloud Run. On the database side: GCP Firestore is very interesting and we're going to build a big feature around it. AWS has nothing like it. On the queue side of things: We're planning to build around GCP Cloud Tasks; We've more or less built Cloud Tasks ourselves using a mix of MySQL and AWS SQS (and it was hard and we haven't done a good job).
I'd love to start a Discord or something to discuss these thoughts more. It's so hard to get good practical information for system architects/CTO types who just need to hammer stuff out.
