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An analytics team stores critical data backups and reporting files in Google Cloud Storage. The team needs to choose a bucket location type that satisfies the following requirements:
Which Cloud Storage location type should the team select?
Dual-region storage is a Google Cloud Storage location type that automatically stores object data and metadata redundantly across two specific, separate geographic regions within the same continent (such as nam4 for us-central1 and us-east1, or a custom dual-region pair).
Dual-region storage delivers the exact balance needed: it provides true geo-redundancy and high availability against regional outages, restricts data residency and replication to two chosen regions, and avoids the broad geographic footprint and associated latency variability of large multi-regions.
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