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 spend on Cloud CDN.
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Features
Cloud CDN and Media CDN
Universal support for any origin and back end
Pull content from any HTTP-capable origin, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Google Kubernetes Engine back ends and origins outside of Google Cloud, such as storage buckets in other clouds.
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.
Real-time logging and metrics
Understand how traffic is being served by Cloud CDN and Media CDN with Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.
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
Accelerate and secure web content for global audiences
Accelerate and secure web content for global audiences
Cloud CDN uses Google’s global edge network to serve content closer to your users. Originally built to serve Google’s core applications like Google Search, Gmail, and Maps, Cloud CDN gives you the same world-class infrastructure to accelerate and secure mission critical web experiences at a global scale.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Accelerate and secure web content for global audiences
Accelerate and secure web content for global audiences
Cloud CDN uses Google’s global edge network to serve content closer to your users. Originally built to serve Google’s core applications like Google Search, Gmail, and Maps, Cloud CDN gives you the same world-class infrastructure to accelerate and secure mission critical web experiences at a global scale.
Dynamic content
Use Cloud CDN to serve dynamic, user-specific content
Use Cloud CDN to serve dynamic, user-specific content
By caching frequently accessed data in Google's edge network, Cloud CDN keeps the data as close as possible to users and allows for the fastest possible access. Cloud CDN offers configurable cache controls and optimizations like dynamic compression to help you accelerate your APIs and content.
