u/Puzzled_Law126

Hey guys,

I am the owner of an Foreign owned LLC for the past 5+ years, being using Mercury with no issues. I have Mercury CashBack Credit Card which works just fine, I was thinking recently to get AMEX Business, just for the benefits of it, the issue is they require ITIN or SSN to apply for one.

Does anyone have any experience with AMEX as a non resident owner of an LLC?
Do you have any recommendation for another business card I can apply for?

Hey guys,

I am looking to decrease our costs with GCP and though it will be for the best to ask for help here.

With Cloud Run we have a very simple service that function as simple API, it receives information and output a simple JSON.
The configuration used for the instance is:

• 256 MB memory
• 1 CPU
• 150 Concurrent requests
• 99% of the time, only 1 instance is up

The instance uses <10% CPU and each request take around 15ms.

The issue? This service is being called a lot (by design), in total each month we pay $150 USD only for the CPU of this service ("Cloud Run functions CPU (Request-based billing) in us-central1").

Obviously I can't decrease the CPU to <1 due to concurrency, it seems to me that something so simple should not cost that much, any help would be appreciated.