Like many Google Cloud customers, you probably use Global Load Balancing platform to get benefits such as high availability, low latency, and the convenience of a single anycast IP to front-end your global load balancing capacity. But did you know that by adding Cloud CDN and Google Cloud Armor to your existing Global HTTP(S) load balancer deployment, you can get improved web protection and faster web performance. Read on to learn more.

Accelerate web performance by enabling Cloud CDN

At Google we are committed to making the web faster. For example, Cloud Load Balancing supports modern protocols such as Google QUIC and HTTP/2, which improve performance and reduce latency, especially for users on mobile networks.

Then there’s Cloud CDN, which runs on our globally distributed edge points to reduce network latency by caching content closer to your users. Whenever a request is served from the Cloud CDN cache, the load balancer doesn’t need to retrieve content from the backend infrastructure. This allows you to scale seamlessly and easily handle large spikes in demand (e.g., from holiday shopping). As static web elements such as images, videos, etc., can be served from Google’s global edge instead of your backend systems, your users can enjoy faster page loads and a smoother web experience. Finally, Cloud CDN helps you optimize and reduce the cost of delivery: it keeps load off your web servers, keeping down compute usage, and content served out of Google’s edge cache is billed at a lower egress cost.

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