Cloud Run Jobs

GCPContainersFree tier available

Serverless execution of containerised tasks to completion on Cloud Run, with parallelism, task arrays, retries, timeouts up to 24 hours, and the same revision / VPC / IAM controls as Cloud Run services — purpose-built for nightly batch, data pipelines, and scheduled work

Jurisdictional exposure

Provider HQ
USMountain View, USA

Subject to CLOUD Act, FISA-702, DPF

Region locations
APACCNEEAEUUKUSOther44 regions across 7 jurisdictions
Sovereign option
Yes — 2 sovereign-flagged regions available

Attributes

Serverless
Yes
Max Duration
24 hours

Sub-services (3)

Executions

Individual invocations of a job that run task arrays to completion

Task Arrays

Parallel task fan-out with deterministic task indices and per-task retries

Scheduled Executions

Cron-driven execution via Cloud Scheduler triggers or Workflows

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

Where this runs

44 regions
28 countries
2sovereign
Sovereign regions (2)
  • T-Systems Sovereign Cloud · FrankfurtT-Systems Sovereign Cloud powered by Google Cloud
  • S3NS Sovereign Cloud · ParisS3NS — Google Cloud + Thales joint venture
Commercial regions (42)

Europe (13)

  • Belgium
  • Finland
  • Paris
  • Berlin
  • Frankfurt
  • Milan
  • Turin
  • Netherlands
  • Warsaw
  • Madrid
  • Stockholm
  • Zurich
  • London

North America (12)

  • Montréal
  • Toronto
  • Querétaro
  • Northern Virginia
  • Columbus
  • Iowa
  • Dallas
  • Las Vegas
  • Los Angeles
  • South Carolina
  • Salt Lake City
  • Oregon

South America (2)

  • São Paulo
  • Santiago

Asia (9)

  • Hong Kong
  • Delhi
  • Mumbai
  • Jakarta
  • Osaka
  • Tokyo
  • Singapore
  • Seoul
  • Taiwan

Oceania (2)

  • Melbourne
  • Sydney

Middle East (3)

  • Tel Aviv
  • Doha
  • Dammam

Africa (1)

  • Johannesburg

Tags

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Pricing

Pricing model:pay-as-you-go