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For the best possible performance, what is the recommended zone for your Compute Engine instance and Cloud Bigtable instance?

The correct answer is C. Have both the Compute Engine instance and the Cloud Bigtable instance to be in the same zone. Explanation/Reference: It is recommended to create your Compute Engine instance in the same zone as your Cloud Bigtable instance for the best possible performance, If it's not possible to create a instance in the same zone, you should create your instance in another zone within…

Submitted by kevin_r· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems

Question

For the best possible performance, what is the recommended zone for your Compute Engine instance and Cloud Bigtable instance?

Options

  • AHave the Compute Engine instance in the furthest zone from the Cloud Bigtable instance.
  • BHave both the Compute Engine instance and the Cloud Bigtable instance to be in different zones.
  • CHave both the Compute Engine instance and the Cloud Bigtable instance to be in the same zone.
  • DHave the Cloud Bigtable instance to be in the same zone as all of the consumers of your data.

How the community answered

(54 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    89% (48)
  • D
    6% (3)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: It is recommended to create your Compute Engine instance in the same zone as your Cloud Bigtable instance for the best possible performance, If it's not possible to create a instance in the same zone, you should create your instance in another zone within the same region. For example, if your Cloud Bigtable instance is located in us-central1-b, you could create your instance in us-central1-f. This change may result in several milliseconds of additional latency for each Cloud Bigtable request. It is recommended to avoid creating your Compute Engine instance in a different region from your Cloud Bigtable instance, which can add hundreds of milliseconds of latency to each Cloud Bigtable request.

Topics

#Bigtable performance#zone colocation#Compute Engine#latency optimization

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