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QuestionQ6

Optimizing performance and cost

You support the backend for a mobile phone game running on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The application serves HTTP requests from users.

You need to implement a solution to reduce network costs. What should you do?

Explanation

For HTTP traffic, GKE Ingress provisions an external Application Load Balancer. With container-native load balancing, the load balancer targets Pod endpoints directly through network endpoint groups, avoiding the extra load-balancing hop through a node and its NodePort. External GKE Ingress/Application Load Balancers do not support Standard Tier routing.

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