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A global media company is hosting its video streaming platform on Google Cloud. They need to ensure that their content is delivered to users worldwide with the lowest possible latency and highest availability, especially during peak viewing times. They also want to reduce egress costs by caching content closer to their users. Which Google Cloud service addresses these requirements?
- ACloud Load Balancing
- BCloud CDN
- CCloud VPN
- DCloud NAT
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: B. Cloud CDN
Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) is designed to cache content at edge locations globally, close to users. This significantly reduces latency, improves content delivery speed, offloads origin servers, and lowers egress costs by serving content from a cached location rather than the origin.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud Load Balancing distributes traffic to backend services, while it can improve availability, it doesn't inherently cache content at edge locations to reduce latency and egress for static/streaming content.
- C. Cloud VPN provides secure connections over the internet, not content caching or global low-latency delivery.
- D. Cloud NAT allows private instances to initiate outbound connections to the internet and is unrelated to content delivery or caching.
Google Cloud CDN
Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) leverages Google's global edge network to cache content close to users, reducing latency, improving performance, and lowering costs for content delivery.
- Caches content at edge locations globally.
- Reduces latency and improves delivery speed.
- Offloads origin servers.
- Lowers egress costs for content delivery.
Memory trick: CDN is like having mini-warehouses of your content all over the world.