GCP Basics

Question 1

What is a region?

Answer 1

A specific geographical location to host GCP resources. (E.g., London, New York are regions)

They consist of at least three zones.

Question 2

Why use regions?

Answer 2

Regions allow you to deploy your app in the same geography of your customers.

This increases availability and latency, and may allow you to adhere to governmental regulations.

Question 3

What is a zone?

Answer 3

A zone is a deployment area for Google resources within a region.
Each zone has one or more datacentres and are connected to one another via low-latency links.

Question 4

Is all Google Cloud data encrypted at rest?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

What is recommender?

Answer 5

Recommender is a service that provides recommendations and insights for using resources on Google Cloud. These recommendations and insights are per-product or per-service, and are generated based on heuristic methods, machine learning, and current resource usage.

Source - https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/overview