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Google Cloud Platform Administration

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform Administration Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on GCP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624350
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ranjit Singh Thakurratan Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Google Cloud Platform Compute 3. Google Cloud Platform Storage 4. Google Cloud Platform Networking 5. Google Cloud Platform Containers 6. Google Cloud Platform Operations 7. Google Cloud Platform Identity and Security 8. Google Cloud Platform Billing 9. Google Cloud Platform Tools 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Google Cloud CDN

Cloud content delivery network (CDN) stores content locally at certain edges and works with the HTTP(s) load balancing service to deliver this content to users. Google makes this happen with its global points of presence that are geographically located allowing content to be cashed closer to users. When a user requests content from a site hosted on GCP, the request arrives at an edge location of Google's network that is typically closer to the user. Cloud CDN caches at these locations, which improves the response times for the user should they request the same content again (before the CDN timeout expires). This is the CDN logo:

It is important to remember that not all data will be stored on the CDN. Whenever a user requests some content for the first time, the cache cannot fulfill the request. The cache might attempt to look for this content in a nearby...

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