Cloud Run
In plain terms
Google's serverless platform for running containers.
Going deeper
Cloud Run runs stateless containers that scale automatically (including to zero) in response to requests, fully managed. It blends containers with serverless.
Under the hood
Request-driven autoscaling and scale-to-zero; container-based so it avoids FaaS language limits.
Examples
Serverless APIs, microservices, event handlers, containerized web apps.
Think of it like...
Like a venue that opens only when guests arrive and expands to fit the crowd.