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What is Google Cloud CDN Interconnect?

Cloud CDN relies on Google’s global edge network in order to offer content closer to users. This boosts the speed of websites and applications. Furthermore, Cloud CDN uses the global external HTTP(S) load balancer (classic) or the global external HTTP(S) load balancer to serve content to users.

CDN Interconnect allows third-party CDN providers to set direct peering links with Google’s global edge network at different locations. This enables users to direct traffic from VPC networks to a provider’s network.

Furthermore, CDN Interconnect helps us optimize CDN population costs as well as use direct connectivity in order to select CDN providers from Google Cloud.

Sample use cases for CDN Interconnect

• High-volume egress traffic

  If we over-populate CDN with large data files from Google Cloud, we can easily use CDN Interconnect. It links Google Cloud and chosen providers to optimize the traffic and save money automatically.
• Frequent content updates

  Cloud workloads that constantly update data stored in CDN locations can take advantage of CDN Interconnect. This is because the direct link reduces latency for these specific CDN destinations.

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Conclusion

To conclude, our Support Engineers gave us a quick introduction to Cloud CDN Interconnect. We also learned how it optimizes CDN population and saves money.