You are designing a stateless, containerized web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. You want a fully managed serverless environment that scales to zero when there is no traffic. Which compute service should you choose?

Answer options:

Compute Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Cloud Run

App Engine Standard

How to approach this question

Identify the service that supports containers AND is serverless (scales to zero).

Full Answer

C.Cloud Run✓ Correct

Cloud Run

Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables you to run containers that are invocable via requests or events. It abstracts away all infrastructure management and automatically scales up and down to zero almost instantaneously.

Common mistakes

Choosing GKE because containers are mentioned, ignoring the 'serverless' and 'scale to zero' requirements.

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