Global versus regional load balancing

Load balancing can be delivered on a regional or global level. This means that for regional load balancing, the balanced resources will reside within one region, whereas in global load balancing, the resources can reside in many regions. The feature that distinguishes GCP from other cloud providers is that some of the load balancing options are available globally. You don't really need to worry about placing the load balancer in the right region:

As shown in the preceding diagram, the internal and network load balancers are regional only.

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