Cloud CDN: content delivery network (original) (raw)
Cloud CDN and Media CDN
Leverage Google’s decade of experience delivering content
Google's content delivery networks—Cloud CDN and Media CDN—scale to bring content closer to a global audience.
New customers get $300 in free credits to try Cloud CDN and other Google Cloud products.
Features
Cloud CDN and Media CDN
Cloud CDN accelerates web applications using Google's global edge network.
Media CDN uses YouTube's infrastructure to bring video streams (VoD and live) and large file downloads closer to users for fast and reliable delivery.
Universal support for any origin and back end
Security in-depth
Cloud CDN and Media CDN integrate with Cloud Armor. Protect content at the edge with Cloud Armor that has protected companies from some of the largest DDoS attacks.
Fine-grain cache controls
Configure caching behavior by origin that allows you to have fine-grained control over cache keys, TTLs, and other caching features based on the content type being served.
Route matching and origin selection
Cloud CDN and Media CDN provide advanced HTTP routing capabilities that allow you to map traffic to specific edge configurations and origins at a fine-grained level.
Real-time logging and metrics
Modern protocols for better user experience
Protocols such as TLS version 1.3, QUIC, Global Anycast directly benefit the user experience by delivering render-blocking web content more quickly and reducing playback start time and rebuffering when serving video.
How It Works
Cloud CDN and Media CDN accelerate web and video content delivery by using Google's global edge network to bring content as close to your users as possible. Latency, cost, and load on your backend servers is reduced, making it easy to scale to millions of users.
Common Uses
Static content
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Dynamic content
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Video streaming
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Large gaming and software downloads
Learning resources
Learning resources
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Pricing
| How Cloud CDN pricing works | Pricing for Cloud CDN is based on bandwidth and HTTP/HTTPS requests | |
|---|---|---|
| Category or type | Description | Price (USD) |
| Cache egress | <10 TiB | Starting at$0.08GiB per month |
| 10 TiB-150 TiB | Starting at$0.055 GiB per month | |
| 150 TiB-500 TiB | Starting at$0.03GiB per month | |
| >500 TiB | Contact us for a volume-based discount. | |
| Cache fill | Within North America or Europe (including Hawaii) | $0.01per GiB |
| Within each of Asia Pacific, South America, Middle East, Africa, and Oceania (including Hong Kong) | $0.02per GiB | |
| Inter-region cache fill (for example: between Asia Pacific and North America) | $0.04per GiB | |
| Lookup requests | HTTP/HTTPS cache lookup requests | $0.0075per 10,000 requests |
How Cloud CDN pricing works
Pricing for Cloud CDN is based on bandwidth and HTTP/HTTPS requests
Description
Price (USD)
Starting at
$0.08
GiB per month
Description
Starting at
$0.055
GiB per month
Description
Starting at
$0.03
GiB per month
Description
Contact us for a volume-based discount.
Description
Within North America or Europe (including Hawaii)
Price (USD)
Within each of Asia Pacific, South America, Middle East, Africa, and Oceania (including Hong Kong)
Description
Inter-region cache fill (for example: between Asia Pacific and North America)
Description
Description
HTTP/HTTPS cache lookup requests
Price (USD)
$0.0075
per 10,000 requests
Cloud CDN
Estimate your monthly Cloud CDN charges with this calculator.
Media CDN
Connect with our sales team to get a quote for Media CDN.
Start your proof of concept
New customers get $300 in free credits to try Cloud CDN and other Google Cloud products
Contact sales to get started on Media CDN
Getting started with Cloud CDN
Learn best practices for optimizing and accelerating content delivery
Learn how to stream video with Media CDN
Business Case
Explore how other businesses cut costs, increase ROI, and drive innovation with Cloud CDN and Media CDN
Google Cloud’s Media CDN helps us efficiently scale our infrastructure.
Rutong Li, Chief Technology Officer at U-NEXT
U-NEXT reached a 98.3% cache rate, delivering a seamless experience for viewers.
Featured benefits and customers
Shape the content delivery platform to your needs with APIs and edge computing programmability.
Build an end-to-end content delivery solution that integrates seamlessly with Cloud Storage, Google Ad Manager, and APIs.
Get real-time observability that helps you make intelligent decisions based on data.