Question

Your company hosts a global web application with dynamic content served by managed instance groups in us-central1 and europe-west1, plus static assets (images, CSS, JS) stored in a Cloud Storage bucket. You need a single global anycast IP that routes users to the nearest healthy backend, serves static content directly from the bucket, and routes requests based on URL path (e.g., /static/* to the bucket). Which load balancing solution should you configure?

Accepted Answer

A global external Application Load Balancer with a URL map, backend services for the instance groups, and a backend bucket for static assets

Answer

A regional external Application Load Balancer in each region with Cloud DNS geolocation routing between them

Answer

An external passthrough Network Load Balancer with backend services pointing to the instance groups and bucket

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An internal Application Load Balancer with a URL map and a backend bucket for static assets