Question

A media startup runs an internal-facing content approval portal that receives no traffic overnight and on weekends, then bursts to a few hundred concurrent editors during weekday business hours. The application is a stateless containerized web service with unpredictable request patterns. Leadership wants to minimize idle cost while ensuring the service scales rapidly during peaks, and the team wants to avoid managing node infrastructure. Which compute platform best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Deploy the container to Cloud Run, which scales to zero when idle and automatically scales out with concurrent requests.

Answer

Deploy to a Compute Engine managed instance group with autoscaling based on CPU utilization and a minimum of two instances.

Answer

Deploy to a GKE Standard cluster with a cluster autoscaler and a fixed pool of always-on nodes.

Answer

Deploy to a single large Compute Engine VM sized for peak concurrency to guarantee capacity.