Question

A media company serves large video-on-demand files from a single-region Cloud Storage bucket in us-central1. Users are globally distributed, and the finance team reports that inter-region and internet egress charges have grown significantly, while playback start times are slow for users in Asia and Europe. The engineering team wants to reduce egress cost and improve latency without re-architecting the application, which references objects via a public download URL. What is the most cost-effective and performant approach?

Accepted Answer

Enable Cloud CDN with the Cloud Storage bucket as a backend bucket so cached objects are served from edge locations close to users.

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Migrate the bucket to a multi-region location and rely on Google's automatic geo-replication to serve users from the nearest region.

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Create duplicate regional buckets in Asia and Europe and add application logic to route each user to the closest bucket.

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Move the objects to the Coldline storage class to reduce at-rest storage costs and offset the egress charges.