Question

A media startup is designing a new video-on-demand platform on Google Cloud. Their finance team is concerned about network egress costs, since most of the traffic is streaming static video files to consumers across North America, Europe, and Asia. The architect must design a network and content-delivery approach that keeps monthly egress costs as low as possible while maintaining low latency for global viewers. Which design should the architect recommend?

Accepted Answer

Store video files in Cloud Storage and serve them through Cloud CDN backed by an external HTTP(S) Load Balancer, enabling cache-fill from origin.

Answer

Serve video files directly from a multi-region Cloud Storage bucket without any caching layer, relying on the bucket's global availability.

Answer

Deploy Compute Engine instances in each region running Nginx to serve the video files, with a global load balancer distributing requests.

Answer

Place all video files behind Cloud NAT and expose them through a single regional external IP to consolidate egress billing.