Group of VMs with different configurations. Use case: Lift and shift of on-premise workloads that need a load balancer to serve traffic. No automatic elasticity or automatic healing

It is up to you what you want to put into the connectivity VPC Connectivity VPC : transit VPC + CI/CD …

https://medium.com/google-cloud/using-a-multi-nic-vm-to-connect-vpcs-in-google-cloud-d84aa533538

Cloud Load Balancing supports proxying traffic to external backends outside Google Cloud. To define an external backend for a load balancer, you use a resource called an internet network endpoint group (NEG). You can use this type of deployment when you want to serve content from an external backend, but you want your Google Cloud…

An SLI is a service level indicator—a carefully defined quantitative measure of some aspect of the level of service that is provided. Most services consider request latency—how long it takes to return a response to a request—as a key SLI. Other common SLIs include the error rate, often expressed as a fraction of all requests received, and system throughput,…