[GCP]GCP Weekly Digest Report

Situation

Had A Working GCP Weekly Digest Running On Google Apps Script For Weeks — Pulls Release Notes And Blog RSS Every Friday, Hands Them To Gemini To Write A Categorized Digest, Emails It Out, Archives A Copy To Google Drive. The Original Plan Was To Leave It Alone Until It Hit A Real Limit. Then A Different Reason To Migrate Showed Up: Wanted To Write This Up Next To The AWS Version As An “AWS vs GCP Serverless Digest Bot” Comparison, And Apps Script’s GmailApp/DriveApp/ScriptApp.getOAuthToken() Assume Every Reader Already Lives Inside A Google Account — Rebuilt It On Cloud Run Instead, Skipping The Original Migration Threshold On Purpose.

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Situation

Want To Deploy vLLM On Cloud Run To Serve An LLM. Two Paths: GPU Mode (For Real Service) Or CPU Mode (For Tiny Model / Architecture Test Only). Both Fully Tested End To End.

Result First:

GPU Mode CPU Mode
Support Level GA Experimental
Tested Model Gemma-4-E2B-it (L4) Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Response Time 6.1s 114s
Build Effort Low, Use Official Image High, ~56 Min Multi-Stage Build
Use Case Real Service, Demo Architecture Test Only

GPU Is About 19x Faster Than CPU. CPU Mode Works, But Don’t Expect Speed.

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Gordon wei

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