Multi Zone and Multi Region Deployments in GCP (and their Egress charges on GCP)
Also read IP Addressing in GCP and Firewall Rules in GCP
Zones and Regions
A subnet in GCP can span across multiple zones and multiple regions.
When you deploy VMs that live in different zones (as you should for increased availability)
Multi Zone for Increased Availability
Multi Region for Disaster Scenarios
egress charges google cloud
Summary
Multi zone deployments and multi region deployments in GCP are easy to build. However, often, the charges associated with such deployments are miscalculated or misunderstood. If your regions are outside the U.S., there can be a substantial component to the U.S. to International region egress charges.
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