what is the primary benefit to a google cloud customer of using resources in several zones within a region?

The primary benefit of using resources in several zones within a single Google Cloud region is improved fault tolerance and higher availability of your applications.

Quick Scoop

By spreading your VMs, databases, and other zonal resources across multiple zones in the same region, you protect your workload from a zone-wide failure (for example, a power or network issue affecting one data center), because instances in the other zones can keep serving traffic. Since all zones are in the same region, you still get very low latency between them, so this redundancy does not significantly hurt performance for most regional applications.

If you see this as a multiple‑choice exam question with options like:

• For improved fault tolerance
• For better performance
• For expanding services to customers in new areas

…the correct choice is: “For improved fault tolerance.”

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