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GCP PCA · Question 35 · Cost Optimization

A media company serves terabytes of video content globally. They are currently hosting the videos in a Cloud Storage bucket in the us-east1 region. Users in Asia are experiencing high latency, and the company's monthly network egress costs are exorbitant. How should you optimize this architecture?

Answer options:

A.

Replicate the Cloud Storage bucket to every region in Asia.

B.

Change the Cloud Storage bucket's storage class to Multi-Regional.

C.

Place a Global HTTP(S) Load Balancer in front of the bucket and enable Cloud CDN.

D.

Use Cloud VPN to route user traffic directly to the us-east1 region.

How to approach this question

Identify the GCP service designed to cache static content at the edge to reduce latency and egress costs.

Full Answer

C.Place a Global HTTP(S) Load Balancer in front of the bucket and enable Cloud CDN.✓ Correct
Cloud CDN uses Google's global edge network to cache content close to the user. By putting a Load Balancer and Cloud CDN in front of the Cloud Storage bucket, users in Asia will stream videos from an edge node in Asia, solving the latency issue. Furthermore, CDN egress pricing is significantly lower than standard internet egress pricing.

Common mistakes

Choosing Multi-Regional storage (B), misunderstanding that 'Multi-Region' in GCS means a single continent (like US or EU), not global replication.
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