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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-NETWORK-ENGINEER · Question #258

Your company's web application was just deployed on Compute Engine VMS in multiple Google Cloud regions. You have created multiple instance groups and you need to distribute traffic between these VMs.

The correct answer is B. Create one global external Application Load Balancer and one backend service with multiple. A single global external Application (HTTP(S)) Load Balancer with one backend service that includes all regional instance groups lets Google’s global anycast frontend automatically steer each user to the closest healthy backend. This setup follows Google’s best practice for multi

Submitted by helene.fr· Apr 18, 2026Designing, planning, and prototyping a Google Cloud network

Question

Your company's web application was just deployed on Compute Engine VMS in multiple Google Cloud regions. You have created multiple instance groups and you need to distribute traffic between these VMs. You want your users to automatically connect to the backend that is located in the closest region while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?

Options

  • ACreate one global external Application Load Balancer and multiple backend services. Ensure that
  • BCreate one global external Application Load Balancer and one backend service with multiple
  • CCreate two global external Application Load Balancers with one backend service and one
  • DCreate two global external Application Load Balancers with multiple backend services. Ensure

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    82% (27)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    6% (2)

Explanation

A single global external Application (HTTP(S)) Load Balancer with one backend service that includes all regional instance groups lets Google’s global anycast frontend automatically steer each user to the closest healthy backend. This setup follows Google’s best practice for multi- region Compute Engine deployments with minimal configuration.

Topics

#Global External Application Load Balancer#Backend Service#Multi-region Deployment#Latency-based Routing

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