Why use Regions and Zones?
In Google Cloud Platform regions are The Region is a Specific geographical location to host your applications. Each region is designed to comply with specific laws and regulations and to provide low-latency network connectivity to specific geographic areas and zones are small isolated areas of that regions.
Reasons To Use Regions
- If you want your application to be more available then you need to deploy it in the regions and zones and this where actual data centre of the cloud will be located.
- In a region there will be multiple availability zones which are used for disaster recovery purpose.
- The zones which are available in the same region are inter connected with each other.
- The data which is more important to the organization will be stored in the multiple zones of an single region.
Google Cloud Platform Networking Services
Google Cloud Platform offers a suite of networking services that can help you manage and build complex network architectures, reduce network latency, and simplify network administration. To learn more about the GCP Networking Services, read on!
GCP Networking Services offer IP transit service in peering locations around the world. You can also create your own private connection. GCP Networking Services have a rich set of networking tools that allow you to design networks using APIs or Cloud Console or CLI commands for advanced use cases like configuring firewall rules.