Universal bucket in Google Cloud Platform for content, which would determine the user's location and serve content from the closest server?

[Arsen Ibragimov]

I am a mobile application developer. I use Google Cloud bucket to store 10-second videos and photos that I use in the application. Thousands of users use the application every day, and I want to use a CDN to ensure that the content of the application is delivered to users with minimum delays and maximum speed.

At the moment, I have only found an opportunity to create a bucket within one region to choose from: the USA, Europe, and Asia. How to create a universal bucket in Google Cloud Platform for storing application content, which would determine the user's location and serve content from the server closest to the user?

Thank you!

[Elliott (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello,

I understand that you want to serve your clients files from storage locations close to them. I was unable to find universal Cloud Storage Buckets but I came across an alternative, which suggests the use of Cloud CDN to suit your purpose.

One use case suggests for Cloud Storage Buckets:

If you want to share content using a Cloud Storage bucket, you may use it as a backend linked to an external HTTP(S) load balancer. If you choose to do so, namely to use Cloud CDN, you may use a multi-region bucket. This process automatically replicates objects across multiple Google Cloud regions. A benefit of doing so may improve the availability of your content and also improve failure tolerance across your application.

I am wanting to know if you would consider using Cloud CDN in your implementation as it seems to me to be a perfect fit from the use case you presented.