[halfteatree]

Did you actually use all the cloud vendors before making this comment?

GCP lets you set a max instant count in Cloud Run. It’s in the first screen of setting up a service. It really doesn’t get much simpler than that.

[justin101]

GCP's max instance count is helpful to a certain extent, but this doesn't completely protect you unless from DDOS attacks. If you have 3 nodes that can all handle 1000 requests per second, and those requests are doing something expensive the max instance limit doesn't help you.

Although I guess if you have 3 nodes that can only handle 100 requests each the damage of a DDOS would be much more limited.

[halfteatree]

True, it doesn’t protect you from DDOS. But how is it different from having 3 regular hosts?

[dartos]

Yeah GCP is the friendliest cloud provider for sure.

Still a big, complex platform with tons of features and things to spend money on, but much more friendly than some others (looking at you, AWS)

[twism]

And a billing limit. plus you get a generous amount in the free tier