GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question
A video-streaming provider must meet strict GDPR data-residency rules: every byte of customer data, including backups, must remain inside the European Union while still surviving the loss of an entire Google Cloud region. The team has chosen Cloud Spanner for the service's metadata store. Which deployment approach best satisfies both the durability and residency requirements?
Create a Cloud Spanner multi-region instance using the eur3 configuration so all replicas and backups are stored in multiple EU regions.
Provision a Cloud Spanner regional instance in europe-west1 and enable automated and export backups to a Cloud Storage bucket restricted to the EU.
Use a Cloud Spanner multi-region instance based on the nam3 configuration to gain global availability across three U.S. regions.
Deploy two independent Cloud Spanner regional instances in europe-west1 and europe-north1 and use application-level dual writes for redundancy.
Cloud Spanner offers predefined multi-region configurations. The eur3 configuration replicates data synchronously across several EU regions (currently europe-west1, europe-west2, and europe-west4) and places a witness node in a fourth EU region, giving regional fault-tolerance while guaranteeing that all replicas and backups stay within EU boundaries. A regional instance (even with automated backups) would not survive a regional outage, and the nam3 configuration stores data in the United States, violating residency constraints. Creating separate regional instances and managing cross-region replication yourself would neither provide synchronous, strongly consistent replicas nor ensure that automated backups stay solely in the EU.
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