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A global media company is moving its content delivery platform to Google Cloud. They require a solution that can handle extremely high volumes of concurrent users accessing video content worldwide, with minimal latency and high availability. The solution must also be cost-effective for static and dynamic content delivery. Which Google Cloud service is primarily designed for this purpose?
- ACloud Run
- BCloud Spanner
- CCloud Storage
- DCloud CDN
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Correct answer: D. Cloud CDN
Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) is specifically designed to cache content close to users globally, reducing latency and offloading origin servers, which is crucial for delivering high-volume video content with minimal latency and high availability.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud Run is a serverless platform for running containerized applications, not primarily for static content delivery.
- B. Cloud Spanner is a globally distributed database, not a content delivery service.
- C. Cloud Storage stores content, but doesn't inherently optimize global delivery with low latency.
Cloud CDN
Google Cloud's Content Delivery Network service that caches content at Google's global edge network locations.
- Reduces latency for global users by serving content closer to them.
- Offloads origin servers, improving performance and reducing costs.
- Supports both static and dynamic content delivery.
Memory trick: CDN makes content zoom across the globe.