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A global media company is hosting its video streaming platform on Google Cloud. They want to ensure that users worldwide experience minimal latency when accessing video content, even during peak demand. They also need to reduce the load on their origin servers and minimize data transfer costs. Which Google Cloud networking service is designed to address these requirements?
- ACloud CDN
- BCloud VPN
- CCloud Load Balancing
- DCloud Interconnect
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Correct answer: A. Cloud CDN
Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) caches content closer to users globally, reducing latency, offloading origin servers, and lowering data transfer costs for static and streaming content.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Cloud VPN creates secure connections to on-premises networks; it does not optimize content delivery to global users.
- C. Cloud Load Balancing distributes traffic across backend instances in regions but does not cache content at edge locations to reduce latency globally.
- D. Cloud Interconnect provides direct, high-bandwidth connections to Google Cloud, primarily for hybrid cloud scenarios, not for global content delivery optimization.
Cloud CDN
Google Cloud's Content Delivery Network leverages Google's global edge network to cache content close to users, improving performance and reducing origin server load.
- Reduces latency for global users
- Lowers egress costs by serving from cache
- Offloads origin servers
Memory trick: CDN: Content Delivered Near you, Fast and Freeing your Server.