Your team is reviewing the release notes for a new Google Cloud service. The notes state that the service is currently offered in "us-central1-a", "northamerica-northeast1", and "global". To plan high availability, they ask you which of these locations is a zone as defined by Google Cloud's resource hierarchy. Which location do you identify?
A zone is the most granular Google Cloud deployment area and is identified by a region name followed by a lowercase letter, such as "-a" or "-b". "us-central1-a" fits this pattern, meaning it is a single zone inside the "us-central1" region. "northamerica-northeast1" lacks the final letter and therefore represents an entire region. "us" is a multi-regional location, and "global" indicates a service that is not tied to any specific geography. Only "us-central1-a" is a zonal identifier.
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