On: Google’s serverless containers platform Cloud Run is now GA

[_mj78]

By AWS Firecracker microVMs, do you mean AWS Lambda? Cloud Run is a managed service. It wouldn't be a good comparison to compare it to the Firecracker open source project. It would make more sense to compare Cloud Run to AWS Lambda.

[gorbypark → _mj78]

While Cloud Run is a managed service, it is built upon Knative as far as I'm aware, so in theory a self-hosted version could be compared to Firecracker. You are correct that a Cloud Run to Lambda comparison would be more 1:1, though.

[nailer → _mj78]

I read "compute platform" as Cloud Run being the execution engine. Sounds like Google is just using the normal Kubernetes based execution environment.