Bursty container workloads cost 42% more on AWS Fargate than Google Cloud Run for the same request volume, according to our 12-month benchmark of 1.2 million HTTP requests across 16 vCPU/memory configurations. For teams running event-driven APIs with <100 requests per second (RPS) baseline and 10x spikes, that gap widens to 68% when factoring in idle capacity charges. This isn't a marginal difference—it's the difference between a $10k monthly cloud bill and a $3.2k one for the same workload. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Grok 4.3 (20 points) Auto Polo (29 points) How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (588 points) New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (57 points) For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (493 points) Key Insights Fargate v1.4.0 (ECS) charges $0.04048 per vCPU-hour vs Cloud Run $0.036 per vCPU-hour for x86 instances (us-east-1 vs us-central1, July 2024 pricing) Cloud Run cold starts average…