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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #356

You need to build and deploy a containerized web application to Google Cloud. The application is very write-heavy and requires a relational database as its data store. The application needs to be…

The correct answer is B. Deploy the application to Cloud Run in multiple regions behind a global HTTPS load balancer. Deploying the containerized web application to Cloud Run in multiple regions behind a global HTTPS load balancer provides multi-region high availability with minimal infrastructure management. Using Spanner delivers a fully managed relational database with strong consistency…

Submitted by cyberguy42· Mar 30, 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

Question

You need to build and deploy a containerized web application to Google Cloud. The application is very write-heavy and requires a relational database as its data store. The application needs to be highly available in multiple cloud regions. You want to minimize operational overhead while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options

  • ADeploy the application to GKE clusters in multiple regions and expose the application endpoint
  • BDeploy the application to Cloud Run in multiple regions behind a global HTTPS load balancer.
  • CDeploy the application to a GKE standard cluster behind a global HTTPS load balancer. Use
  • DDeploy the application to a GKE standard cluster with a global ingress to expose the application

How the community answered

(45 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    76% (34)
  • C
    7% (3)
  • D
    13% (6)

Explanation

Deploying the containerized web application to Cloud Run in multiple regions behind a global HTTPS load balancer provides multi-region high availability with minimal infrastructure management. Using Spanner delivers a fully managed relational database with strong consistency and native multi-region availability, which is well suited for write-heavy workloads while following Google-recommended practices for global scalability and reliability.

Topics

#Cloud Run#global load balancer#multi-region deployment#managed services

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