The simplest explanation is that a “cloud region” describes the actual, real-life geographic location where your public cloud resources are located. … But the cloud is just a prettier name for actual devices that process data. They’re data centers, and those data centers live in places.
What are cloud regions and zones?
Regions are collections of zones. Zones have high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections to other zones in the same region. In order to deploy fault-tolerant applications that have high availability, Google recommends deploying applications across multiple zones and multiple regions.
How do you choose a cloud region?
- Latency. The main factor to consider is the latency your user experiences. …
- Pricing. …
- Colocation with other Google Cloud services. …
- Machine-type availability. …
- Resource quotas. …
- Carbon-free energy percentage. …
- Last mile latency. …
- Google frontend and edge POP latency.
