Google Cloud Run is a fully managed platform that takes a Docker container image and runs it as a stateless, autoscaling HTTP service.

The difference between Cloud Run and the first- generation of serverless platforms — such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud functions or Azure functions — is that it allows you to run arbitrary applications serving multiple endpoints, not small functions with a specific interface.

Cloud Run is based on Knative, which means that similar solutions will likely show up on other managed Kubernetes platforms.