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A company is designing a global web application that needs to serve users with the lowest possible latency, regardless of their geographic location. They want to ensure that content is cached close to users and distributed efficiently. Which Google Cloud networking service is primarily designed for this purpose?
- ACloud Interconnect
- BCloud VPN
- CCloud CDN
- DVPC Network Peering
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Correct answer: C. Cloud CDN
Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) is designed to cache web content at Google's edge locations worldwide, serving content closer to users to reduce latency and improve performance for global applications.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud Interconnect provides a dedicated private connection to Google Cloud, not for global content caching and delivery to end-users.
- B. Cloud VPN creates private tunnels between networks, not for global content delivery and caching.
- D. VPC Network Peering connects two VPC networks privately, not for public content delivery.
Cloud CDN
Google Cloud's Content Delivery Network (CDN) that caches web content at Google's global edge network locations. It accelerates content delivery to users by serving data from a location geographically closer to them.
- Caches content at edge locations
- Reduces latency for global users
- Improves website performance
- Reduces origin server load
- Integrates with Google Cloud Load Balancing
Memory trick: Network services: Get your data where it needs to go, fast and secure!