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If you fit within the language/runtime restrictions, Cloud Functions and App Engine also both can be invoked with the same scheduler setup. We use Cloud Functions for monitoring all the time (schedule to call a function once per minute or so that scrapes some metrics from a third party API and pushes to a Prometheus gateway). Costs us something like $0.12/month and has been extremely reliable. We also run apps on App Engine when we can and there all you need to do is add a `cron.yaml` and you can invoke endpoints there easily and practically for free.

I've just created a similar setup last week: 1. Cloud function, uses Puppeteer 2. Cloud scheduler for triggering cloud function 3. Cloud storage for data persistence

Costs around 1 Euro a month, I had a similar setup for free in Heroku before.

I love Cloud Run, but can they please tie these two things together for me? It's a radio button that says "On schedule" and an input for the cron syntax.

Also much prefer cloud schedule over AWS version.