🎯 Learning Intention

I will explain how Google Cloud’s global infrastructure (regions, zones, and networks) supports reliability, scalability, and high availability.

✅ Success Criteria

• I can define regions, zones, and edge locations.
• I can diagram how redundancy prevents downtime.
• I can describe one example of how distributed computing improves performance.

☀️ Warm-Up (5 min)

“If your favorite game or app suddenly lagged for everyone worldwide, what part of the cloud might have failed?”

🧠 Mini-Lesson

Topic: Global Infrastructure & Reliability

Key ideas:

• Regions = physical locations
• Zones = isolated data-center clusters
• Edge caching = delivers content closer to users
• Redundancy & load balancing

📘 Detailed Notes

🛠 Independent Work

• Complete Architecture Diagram Review (provided in Classroom).
• Label 3 regions and 2 zones.