Question

A media company streams on-demand video and serves large static assets (images, JavaScript bundles, downloadable PDFs) to a global audience. Users in Asia and South America report slow initial load times and high latency, while users near the primary region in North America experience acceptable performance. The origin is a Cloud Storage bucket fronted by an HTTP(S) load balancer. Business requirements state that latency for cacheable content must be minimized worldwide without re-architecting the origin. Which design change best meets this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Enable Cloud CDN on the backend bucket behind the external HTTP(S) load balancer so cacheable content is served from Google edge locations close to users.

Answer

Deploy replica Cloud Storage buckets in Asia and South America and configure clients to select the nearest bucket via DNS geolocation routing.

Answer

Change the Cloud Storage bucket location from a single region to dual-region storage spanning North America.

Answer

Increase the machine size of the load balancer's backend instances and enable autoscaling to handle the additional global traffic.