One of the key benefits of  Cloud Run is that it lets you pay only for what you use, down to 100 millisecond granularity. This is ideal for elastic workloads, notably workloads that can scale to zero or that need instant scaling. However, the traffic on your website or API doesn’t always need this kind of elasticity. Often, customers have a steady stream of requests, or the same daily traffic pattern, resulting in a predictable spend for your Cloud Run resources.

To help address these use cases, today, we’re introducing self-service spend-based  committed use discounts for Cloud Run, which let you commit for a year to spending a certain amount on Cloud Run and benefiting from a 17% discount on the amount you committed.

After you purchase a Cloud Run committed use discount, it automatically applies to all aggregated Cloud Run CPU, memory, and request usage in a region, across all projects in your billing account.

An example

How do committed use discounts for Cloud Run work? Let’s take an example.

Assume that you’re running a few services on Cloud Run in Oregon (us-west1), serving user requests with a consistent daily traffic pattern, resulting in a predictable pattern on your bill:

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