- A specific geographical location to host your resources
- Google provides 20+ regions
- ADVANTAGES OF HAVING MULTIPLE REGIONS:
- High Availability
- Low Latency
- Global footprint (can easily create global applications)
- can adhere to government regulations
- To achieve high availability within the region
- Google provides atleast 3 zones to each region
- Each zone has one or more discrete clusters/ data centers
- Zones are connected via low latency links
- ADVANTAGES OF HAVING MULTIPLE ZONES:
- High availability
- Fault Tolerance