GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question
Your team needs to deploy an HTTP microservice that performs on-the-fly document conversion. The service is already packaged as a Docker image that relies on custom native libraries. It should automatically scale from zero to thousands of concurrent requests, bill only while requests are being processed, and require no Kubernetes or VM management. Which Google Cloud service best meets these requirements with minimal operational effort?
Cloud Run is designed to run stateless containers provided as OCI-compatible images, so it can execute a Docker image that includes custom native libraries. The platform is fully managed-there are no clusters or instances to administer-and it automatically scales down to zero when idle and up rapidly in response to traffic. Billing is per-request and per-resource-second while requests are handled.
Cloud Functions does not offer the same flexibility for arbitrary container images in all regions and has stronger runtime constraints. App Engine Standard supports only specific language runtimes and does not accept arbitrary containers. GKE Autopilot still requires managing Kubernetes objects and incurs per-pod charges even when idle, so it does not meet the strict "scale to zero with no cluster management" requirement.
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