Cloud Run Functions: Why It’s Time to Level Up

The old label “Cloud Functions” split the world into two generations.

Jul 31, 2025

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In 2024 Google retired the split and unified everything under Cloud Run Functions to highlight that functions now live on the same container platform as regular Cloud Run services.

One-sentence difference

Cloud Run Function: a fully configurable container workload — memory, CPU, network, GPUs, secrets, you name it.
Classic Function: a simplified runtime wi…

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