A multinational enterprise is designing a high-availability infrastructure on Google Cloud for its internal employee directory and time-tracking portal. The application consists of stateless HTTP microservices and requires direct 10 Gbps high-bandwidth, low-latency connection between on-premises data centers and Google Cloud. The design must minimize operational management overhead while supporting multi-region fault tolerance. Which TWO architectural decisions should you recommend to meet these technical requirements?
- Deploy the stateless microservices on Cloud Run across multiple GCP regions integrated with a Global External Application Load Balancer.Answer
- Provision Dedicated Interconnect with redundant VLAN attachments across two distinct colocation edge facilities.Answer
- CDeploy the microservices onto multi-cluster Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters across multiple regions.
- DProvision Cloud Spanner with a multi-region instance configuration for standard relational application metadata storage.
- EConfigure HA Cloud VPN with multiple scaled IPsec tunnels over the public internet to reach 10 Gbps throughput.
Answer
The correct architecture combines Cloud Run microservices deployed across multiple regions behind a Global External Application Load Balancer and Dedicated Interconnect with redundant connections across two colocation facilities.
Deploying stateless microservices on Cloud Run in multiple regions behind a Global External Application Load Balancer satisfies the high availability and zero operational overhead requirements. Provisioning Dedicated Interconnect with dual VLAN attachments across distinct colocation locations delivers 10 Gbps dedicated private bandwidth while ensuring 99.99% enterprise SLA.
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Multi-Region Serverless Compute and Enterprise Dedicated Hybrid Interconnect Architecture