Google Media CDN

What it does

APIs and tooling

It supports REST APIs, the Google Cloud console and CLI, and Terraform.checked 7 Oct 2026

Availability and support

You must contact a Google Cloud sales representative or account team to enable Media CDN for your project.checked 7 Oct 2026

Caching

It supports origin shielding, configurable cache policies, TTLs, and cache invalidation by host and path, URL prefix or wildcard, and cache tags.checked 7 Oct 2026

Compliance

The feature comparison lists PCI-DSS, SOC 1/2/3, and ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701 for Media CDN; it does not list HIPAA or FedRAMP for the product.checked 7 Oct 2026

Content access

Signed URLs, signed cookies, and signed tokens can authenticate requests and limit access to content.checked 7 Oct 2026

Integrations

It integrates with Google Cloud external Application Load Balancers, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.checked 7 Oct 2026

Intended workloads

Media CDN is optimized for high-throughput egress workloads, including video streaming and large downloads.checked 7 Oct 2026

Notable limitations

Media CDN does not support RTMP or WebRTC delivery to clients, and Google advises against using it for sensitive or user-specific workloads.checked 7 Oct 2026

Origins

It can fetch content from Cloud Storage, other clouds, and on-premises HTTP infrastructure.checked 7 Oct 2026

Protocols

Client connections support Global Anycast over IPv4 and IPv6, HTTP/3, HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, TLS 1.2, and TLS 1.3.checked 7 Oct 2026

Routing

It supports host and path routing, URL redirects and rewrites, header and query matching, and built-in CORS policies.checked 7 Oct 2026

Security

Cloud Armor policies can allow or deny traffic by IP address, geography, layer 7 filters, and Autonomous System Number.checked 7 Oct 2026

TLS certificates

Google-managed and self-managed TLS certificates are supported, with no additional charge for TLS traffic or Google-managed certificates.checked 7 Oct 2026

What it does

Media CDN delivers streaming video and large file downloads from Google's global edge-caching infrastructure.checked 7 Oct 2026