Elixir is considered a bad match for serverless because BEAM is relatively slow to start up. I think this just became less relevant with Cloud Run min instances.

One of the great things about serverless is its pay-for-what-you-use operating model that lets you scale a service down to 0. But for a certain class of applications, the not-so-great thing about serverless is that it scales down to 0, resulting in latency to process the first request when your application wakes back up again. This so-called “startup tax” is novel to serverless, since, as the name implies, there are no servers running if an application isn’t receiving traffic.

Today, we’re excited to announce minimum (“min”) instances for Cloud Run, our managed serverless compute platform. This important new feature can dramatically improve performance for your applications. And as a result, it makes it possible to run latency-sensitive applications on Cloud Run, so they too can benefit from a serverless compute platform.
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With this feature, you can configure a set of minimum number of Cloud Run instances that are on standby and ready to serve traffic, so your service can start serving requests with minimal cold starts.

The way I’m reading it, just put your Elixir/Phoenix app inside a container, deploy to Cloud Run, and there you have it, serverless Elixir at low fixed cost + usage. Thoughts?