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App Hub helps you to discover Google Cloud
infrastructure resources, whether they're available globally or in specific
regions. This simplifies the management of your resources by letting you
organize your resources based on their scope and how they interact with other
parts of your infrastructure.
Use a Global App Hub application to functionally group
discovered services from global and regional Google Cloud resources such
as the global or regional Layer 7 Application Load Balancer. For more information
about the discovered registration status of services and workloads, see
Concepts and data model.
Use a Regional App Hub application to functionally group
discovered services and workloads that are within a single Google Cloud
region such as the regional Layer 7 Application Load Balancer.
To learn more about global and regional resources, see
Regions and zones.
Compare global and regional applications
The following table can help you choose between App Hub global
and regional applications.
Global application
Regional application
Description
Create a global application if you have Google Cloud resources
that are global or spread across multiple regions that you'd
like to group into a single application.
Create a regional application if all your resources are within a
single region (even if it spans multiple service projects) and
doesn't contain any global resources. You'll need one application per
Google Cloud region if your resources span multiple regions.
Scope
A global application can contain global and regional resources.
A regional application can only contain resources from the same region
as the application. You can't register global resources in a regional
application.
Data handling
Data for a global application is stored across multiple regions and
can be accessed from any Google Cloud region.
Data residency is
not supported.
Data for a regional application is stored in a specific region, but
can be accessed from any other Google Cloud region.
Data residency is
not supported.
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