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NAS = Network Attached Storage
- File storage over a network, possibly using NFS or CIFS protocol
NEG = Network Endpoint Group
- A configuration object that specifies a group of backend endpoints or services
- Commonly used with containers
- Can be used with *some* load balancers and with Traffic Director
NLB = Network Load Balancing
- In GCP, use of a DSR load balancer instead of a proxy-based one. Available only with regional scope.
- Available as the External and Internal “TCP/UDP Network Load Balancing” variants of Cload Load Balancing.
- Cannot provide SSL termination since traffic is only redirected, not proxied: this increases
  - the CPU load on backends
  - the administrative workload on backends, since they must handle certificate management
- May be required for DDoS protection using Coud Armor
North-South Traffic:
- in general, traffic entering or exiting a data center, e.g. client to server.
- In GCP, inter-VPC traffic.
- Compare East-West traffic
nPath routing: another name for DSR