What is Cloud CDN?
Cloud CDN is Google Cloud’s Content Delivery Network. The service uses Google’s global edge network to serve content closer to users, accelerating websites and applications. Users receive content from a nearby edge location rather than directly from the origin server.
Core Features
- Global edge network: Delivery through Google’s worldwide edge infrastructure to reduce latency
- Differentiated caching: Distinguishes between cache hits, cache misses, and partial hits for byte-range requests
- Signed URLs and signed cookies: Time-limited, authenticated access to protected content
- Edge and backend security policies: Cloud Armor rules can be applied both before the cache lookup and for dynamic backend requests
- Service Extensions: Customizable request processing at the edge
Common Use Cases
E-Commerce and Web Portals
Fast page load times for global users. Static assets like images, CSS, and JavaScript are served from the edge, while dynamic API requests are optimally routed.
Video Streaming
For large-scale video and streaming workloads, Google Cloud offers Media CDN as a dedicated, specialized service with additional capabilities such as origin shielding.
API Acceleration
Cloud CDN also benefits API traffic: optimized connections to the origin and intelligent routing reduce latency for global API consumers.
Benefits
- Built on Google’s own edge and backbone network
- Easy activation for existing Cloud Load Balancers
- Detailed logs and metrics in Cloud Monitoring
- Usage-based billing with no minimum fees
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud Partner, innFactory supports you with Cloud CDN: cache strategy, performance optimization, multi-CDN architectures, and cost analysis.
Available Tiers & Options
Standard
- Fully managed
- Scalable
- Integrated with GCP
- Pricing varies by usage
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cloud CDN?
Cloud CDN is Google's Content Delivery Network, which uses Google's global edge network to serve content closer to users, accelerating websites and applications.
How does caching work in Cloud CDN?
Cloud CDN automatically caches content at edge locations, distinguishing between cache hits, cache misses, and partial hits for byte-range requests. Cache behavior is controlled via HTTP headers.
Can Cloud CDN accelerate dynamic content?
Yes, through optimized connections to the origin server, Cloud CDN also accelerates non-cacheable dynamic requests, for example via backend security policies applied to cache misses.
How does Cloud CDN integrate with Cloud Armor?
Cloud CDN supports edge security policies applied before the cache lookup, as well as backend security policies for dynamic content and cache misses, letting Cloud Armor rules take effect early in the request path.
What does Cloud CDN cost?
Cloud CDN charges for cache egress data volume, for cache fill from the origin, and for the number of HTTP/HTTPS requests. There are no minimum fees.
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