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Zonal, regional, multiregional, and global resources

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Zonal, regional, multiregional, and global resources

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- [Instructor] Understanding zonal, regional, multiregional, and global resources within GCP. So the first thing, let's talk about zonal resources, right? Because these are very common and you'll come across this frequently when you're using Google Cloud, especially if you're using Compute Engine virtual machines, 'cause those are zonal resources, meaning that they exist in that particular zone that you create them in and that's what is required when you set them up. And the same thing can be said about the persistent disks, which are the actual hard drives, where you store information. When you create these Compute Engine virtual machines, those stay within that zone as well. But when you look at regional and global resources, some examples of this are static external IP addresses. So basically those could be regional. I could create an IP address for an application that I've created, and that could be access directly to…

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