> The holy grail (for some companies) is really something like Azure AKS + Azure Container Instances. No instances to manage...
Google Cloud have been having that since before it's being called Google Cloud -- I mean Google App Engine. It has all those features, and with its "Standard" environment you don't even need to build docker image.
Cloud Run is even closer. App Engine Standard requires you to use the sandbox, App Engine Flex is tied to VMs, but Cloud Run makes containers serverless:
I can attest that Cloud Run has been great for me. I literally "ported" over some of my apps that were already running in containers by replacing references to my existing env PORT_NUM to GCR's PORT and it just worked. It's been a life changer. Now if it could run non-http workloads, I'd be able to shut down every one of my VMs.
Google Cloud have been having that since before it's being called Google Cloud -- I mean Google App Engine. It has all those features, and with its "Standard" environment you don't even need to build docker image.