Global resources are globally available within the same project and can be accessed from any zone. These include the following objects:
- Addresses: These are reserved external IP addresses and can be used by global load balancers.
- Images: These are either predefined or user customized. They can be used for provisioning VMs.
- Snapshots: Snapshots of a persistent disk allow the creation of new disks and VMs. Note that you can also expose a snapshot to a different project.
- Instance templates: These can be used for the creation of managed instance groups.
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks: These are virtual networks that you can connect your workloads to.
- Firewall: These are, in fact, defined per VPC, but are accessible globally. ...