GCP Basics Google Professional Data Engineer GCP

A GCP

• comprises physical assets (computer/storage devices) and virtual resources (VMs)
• includes all resources in every Google’s data centres
• Data centre location is in a region – Asia/Australia/Europe/North America/South America.
• In GCP, region is a collection of zones
• Zones are isolated from each other in a region.
• Zone is identified by a name having region name like the East Asia region is named asia-east1-a.
• Different zones provide
  • redundancy during failure as multiple zones
  • reduced latency as zones are closer to clients.