Understanding Google Cloud CDN Pricing : Cost Factors and Pricing Structure

Faster Load Times

By leveraging Google Cloud CDN's global edge network, organizations can serve content to customers with low latency, lowering load times and increasing user experience.

Improved Scalability

Google Cloud CDN can scale to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes, allowing them to deliver their content to users all over the world fast and efficiently.

Reduced Infrastructure Costs

By adopting Google Cloud CDN, organizations can save money on infrastructure by distributing their content over Google's network of edge locations rather than constructing and maintaining their own infrastructure.

Increased Security

Google Cloud CDN includes security features such as SSL encryption and DDoS protection to assist organizations in keeping their content safe and secure.

Real-time Analytics

With real-time analytics from Google Cloud CDN, organizations can monitor their content delivery performance, discover patterns, and optimize their operations for increased efficiency and cost savings.

Effortless Integration

Google Cloud CDN simply integrates with current infrastructure and processes because it works in unison with other Google Cloud Platform products.

Personalized

Google Cloud CDN allows enterprises to tailor their content delivery processes to match their individual requirements, allowing them to provide content more effectively.

Cacheable content, cache hit

When Cloud CDN serves your cacheable content with a cache hit, you will be charged for cache lookup and cache egress. 

The charges are based on bandwidth and HTTP/HTTPS requests. The GET and HEAD HTTP methods trigger cache lookups, while other methods such as POST and PUT do not. This applies to Cloud CDN cache hits for cacheable content from custom origins.

Cacheable content, cache miss

On cache misses for cacheable content, you will be charged for cache lookup, cache egress, cache fill, and applicable Cloud Load Balancing data processing or Cloud Storage operation charges. 

For Cloud CDN cache fills from external backends, requests to the external backend are charged at internet egress rates. Cache fills continue to benefit from Google's global backbone network between Google's Cloud CDN edge and origin.

Non-cacheable content

For non-cacheable content, standard Compute Engine and Cloud Storage internet egress rates apply. For external backends, you will be charged for request bytes sent to external backends from the load balancer at standard Compute Engine internet egress rates.

Choose the right pricing tier

Google Cloud CDN offers different pricing tiers based on the amount of data transferred, the number of requests made, and the location of the edge locations used to deliver the content. 

By choosing the right pricing tier, businesses can ensure they are paying only for the resources they need.

Use regional edge caches

Google Cloud CDN offers regional edge caches that enable businesses to store their content closer to their end-users, reducing data transfer costs and improving performance. 

By leveraging regional edge caches, businesses can minimize their costs while delivering their content quickly and reliably to users in specific regions.

Optimize cache hit ratio

Google Cloud CDN's cache hit ratio is the percentage of requests that are served directly from the cache. By optimizing the cache hit ratio, businesses can reduce their data transfer costs and improve performance. 

This can be done by configuring cache control headers and optimizing cache expiration times. 

Use origin shielding

Origin shielding is a feature that enables businesses to shield their origin servers from traffic spikes and DDoS attacks. 

By using origin shielding, businesses can minimize the number of requests that are served directly from the origin servers, reducing data transfer costs and improving performance.

Monitor and analyze the performance

Google Cloud CDN provides real-time analytics that enables businesses to monitor their content delivery performance, identify trends, and optimize their operations for improved efficiency and cost savings. 

By monitoring and analyzing performance, businesses can identify areas for improvement and make data-driven decisions to optimize their use of the service.