Question

A media company is launching a stateless HTTP(S) web application that will serve users across North America, Europe, and Asia. Requirements: a single global anycast IP address, TLS termination at the edge close to users, automatic routing of each user to the nearest healthy backend region, and the ability to serve cached static content from Google's edge. Which load balancing option should you choose?

Accepted Answer

Global external Application Load Balancer with Cloud CDN enabled on the backend service

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Regional external Application Load Balancer deployed in each region, with Cloud DNS geolocation routing policies pointing to each regional IP

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Global external proxy Network Load Balancer with backend services in each region

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External passthrough Network Load Balancer with a global static IP and Cloud CDN