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.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
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.
Video streaming
Stream live and recorded videos with Media CDN
Stream live and recorded videos with Media CDN
Leverage Media CDN’s cache deployments spanning 1,300+ cities to deliver performant, engaging streaming experiences as close to your viewers as possible.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Stream live and recorded videos with Media CDN
Stream live and recorded videos with Media CDN
Leverage Media CDN’s cache deployments spanning 1,300+ cities to deliver performant, engaging streaming experiences as close to your viewers as possible.
Large gaming and software downloads
Streamline delivery of downloads
Learning resources
Streamline delivery of downloads
Pricing
| How Cloud CDN and Media CDN pricing works | Pricing for Cloud CDN is based on bandwidth and HTTP/HTTPS requests. For Media CDN, please contact sales for details. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category or type | Description | Price (USD) |
Cache egress | <10 TiB | Starting at $0.08 GiB per month |
10 TiB-150 TiB | Starting at $0.055 GiB per month | |
150 TiB-500 TiB | Starting at $0.03 GiB per month | |
>500 TiB | Contact us for a volume-based discount. | |
Cache fill | Within North America or Europe (including Hawaii) | $0.01 per GiB |
Within each of Asia Pacific, South America, Middle East, Africa, and Oceania (including Hong Kong) | $0.02 per GiB | |
Inter-region cache fill (for example: between Asia Pacific and North America) | $0.04 per GiB | |
Lookup requests | HTTP/HTTPS cache lookup requests | $0.0075 per 10,000 requests |
Learn more about Cloud CDN pricing. View all pricing details.
How Cloud CDN and Media CDN pricing works
Pricing for Cloud CDN is based on bandwidth and HTTP/HTTPS requests. For Media CDN, please contact sales for details.
Cache egress
<10 TiB
Starting at
$0.08
GiB per month
10 TiB-150 TiB
Starting at
$0.055
GiB per month
150 TiB-500 TiB
Starting at
$0.03
GiB per month
>500 TiB
Contact us for a volume-based discount.
Cache fill
Within North America or Europe (including Hawaii)
$0.01
per GiB
Within each of Asia Pacific, South America, Middle East, Africa, and Oceania (including Hong Kong)
$0.02
per GiB
Inter-region cache fill (for example: between Asia Pacific and North America)
$0.04
per GiB
Lookup requests
HTTP/HTTPS cache lookup requests
$0.0075
per 10,000 requests
Learn more about Cloud CDN pricing. View all pricing details.
Cloud CDN
Media CDN
Start your proof of concept
New customers get $300 in free credits
Contact sales to get started on Media CDN
Getting started with Cloud CDN
Best practices for 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
U-NEXT reached a 98.3% cache rate, delivering a seamless experience for viewers.
Rutong Li, Chief Technology Officer at U-NEXT
Google Cloud’s Media CDN helps us efficiently scale our infrastructure.
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