Coming from AWS/cloudfront background I want to know the base domain of google's CDN which I can't find anywhere. In Cloudfront, domain such as xyzid.cloudfront.net available in the list of cloudfront distributions.
I need to store objects in google's bucket and server via google's CDN for better performance. I have read lot of tutorials which explains how to link cdn with bucket via load-balancer. But in the end it gives me only IP address, via which I am able to access the bucket's content successfully.
Since IP will be in a particular location, whereas in case of cloudfront it gives domain such as xyzid.cloudfront.net which resolves to nearest IP address based on the location of user. I am highly doubtful, how using IP as a base domain will give the advantage of 90+ edge locations of google.
I think I am missing something big here.
Coming from AWS/cloudfront background I want to know the base domain of google's CDN which I can't find anywhere.
When you configure a Google CDN, you need to configure a Load Balancer and enable the CDN feature. The address of the CDN is the address of the load balancer. This is the case for caching compute instances and Cloud Storage.
Since IP will be in a particular location, ...
Incorrect assumption that an IP address is tied to a location in GCP. Google supports a global IP address where the IP address itself is global in scope and resolves to the closest (configured) edge location for routing. This technology is called Anycast. The same technology used for Global Domain Name servers.
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There are two types of public external IP addresses. Gobal and Regional. Use a Global IP address for Global HTTP(S) Load Balancers. Regional IP addresses are used for VM instances, Network Load Balancers and most other services.