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August 19, 2026
Global Front End is a unified offering that simplifies billing by consolidating pricing across networking products, including Cloud CDN, global external Application Load Balancer, Google Cloud Armor, and Service Extensions, into one solution to help deliver, scale, and secure your internet-facing applications. Cloud CDN is included in the Global Front End Enterprise billing tier. This feature is available in Preview.
For more information, see Global Front End.
August 17, 2026
Cloud CDN supports the targeted CDN-Cache-Control HTTP response
header RFC 9213. You can use
this header to specify caching directives specifically for Cloud CDN edge
caches without affecting browser-level caching.
For details, see Cache control header precedence.
August 04, 2026
Cloud CDN supports native image optimization at the Google network edge for global external Application Load Balancers. This feature offloads compute-intensive image transformations, such as resizing, cropping, and format conversion to reduce origin server load and egress costs. This feature is in Preview.
For more information, see Optimize images with Cloud CDN.