Google recently published a cloud infrastructure reliability guide to give users an overview of different cloud deployment architectures to help them determine the most suitable setup for their specific workloads.  The new guide provides customers with infrastructure reliability, ways to assess and design reliable infrastructure, traffic-and-load management techniques, and methods to manage and monitor Google Cloud infrastructure.  The guide outlines cloud deployment architectures and explains the use cases for which they are most beneficial. A single-zone architecture is best for workloads that can tolerate downtime or deploy at another location with minimal effort. A multi-zone architecture best suits workloads requiring resilience against zone outages but can tolerate some downtime caused by region outages. Customers are also provided with steps they can take for traffic-and-load management, which include forecasting the application load, capacity planning, creating Google Cloud service quotas, and more.  Nir Tarcic, a senior staff engineer, and Kumar Dhanagopal, a developer at Google, both emphasize how the guide teaches users the building blocks of reliability and “how these building blocks affect the availability of your cloud resources.”