The Most Underrated Infrastructure Shift of the Year: Google Cloud’s New Serverless

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge Topic: Cloud Run’s new serverless primitives—Cloud Run Instances, Cloud Run Sandboxes, and Ephemeral Disk Storage—announced at Google Cloud Next ’26, plus native integration with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Format: Opinion Piece Introduction: The Announcement Nobody Is Talking About Google Cloud Next ’26 produced 260 announcements [1]. Predictably, the headlines went to the Gemini Ente