You are working on a social media application. You plan to add a feature that allows users to upload images.
These images will be 2 MB - 1 GB in size. You want to minimize their infrastructure operations overhead for this feature. What should you do?

In order to meet their business requirements, how should HipLocal store their application state?

You are developing a web application that will be accessible over both HTTP and HTTPS and will run on Compute Engine instances. On occasion, you will need to SSH from your remote laptop into one of the Compute Engine instances to conduct maintenance on the app. How should you configure the instances while following Google-recommended best practices?

You recently joined a new team that has a Cloud Spanner database instance running in production. Your manager has asked you to optimize the Spanner instance to reduce cost while maintaining high reliability and availability of the database. What should you do?

You are building a highly available and globally accessible application that will serve static content to users.
You need to configure the storage and serving components. You want to minimize management overhead and latency while maximizing reliability for users. What should you do?