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A digital media company wants to distribute its video content to a global audience with low latency and high availability. They need to cache content close to users and protect against DDoS attacks. Which Google Cloud service should they use?
- ACloud Load Balancing
- BCloud Storage
- CCloud Armor
- DCloud CDN
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Correct answer: D. Cloud CDN
Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) is designed to cache content at edge locations globally, reducing latency for users and offloading origin servers. It integrates with Cloud Armor for DDoS protection, making it ideal for global content distribution.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud Load Balancing distributes traffic but doesn't cache content at edge locations for global low-latency delivery.
- B. Cloud Storage stores objects but doesn't inherently provide global caching for low-latency content delivery.
- C. Cloud Armor provides DDoS protection and WAF capabilities but doesn't handle content caching and distribution on its own.
Cloud CDN
Cloud CDN leverages Google's global network of edge points of presence (PoPs) to cache content close to users, delivering it with low latency and high availability.
- Reduces latency by serving content from edge locations.
- Decreases load on origin servers.
- Integrates with Google Cloud Load Balancing and Cloud Armor.
Memory trick: CDN delivers your content to the closest user, fast!