Coming from a stronger AWS background, I decided to stop comparing cloud providers from documentation and instead build something end-to-end on Google Cloud Platform. The objective was simple: Build a secure serverless architecture using: Terraform Cloud Run Cloud Armor Global Load Balancer Cloud Logging Cloud Monitoring The actual experience turned out to be much more interesting than I expected. The Original Plan My initial architecture looked like this: Internet --> Global Load Balancer -->Cloud Run Simple Deploy infrastructure. Validate connectivity. Write a blog. Done. That lasted about 30 minutes. First Reality Check: Cloud Run Isn't AWS Lambda One mistake I made initially was trying to think in AWS patterns. In AWS, my instinct would be: CloudFront │ WAF │ ALB │ Lambda Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode GCP approaches this differently.…