You are building an HTTP API hosted on a Compute Engine VM instance that should only be accessible by multiple clients within the same VPC. The clients need to resolve the service's IP address. What is the recommended approach?

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Reserve a static external IP address and assign it to an HTTP(S) load balancing service's forwarding rule. Clients should use this IP address to connect to the service.

15.4%

Ensure that clients use Compute Engine internal DNS by connecting to the instance name with the url https://[INSTANCE_NAME].[ZONE].c.[PROJECT_ID].internal/.

53.8%

Reserve a static external IP address and assign it to an HTTP(S) load balancing service's forwarding rule. Then, define an A record in Cloud DNS. Clients should use the name of the A record to connect to the service.

15.4%

Ensure that clients use Compute Engine internal DNS by connecting to the instance name with the url https://[API_NAME]/[API_VERSION]/.

15.4%

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You are building an HTTP API hosted on a Compute Engine VM instance that should only be accessible by multiple clients within the same VPC. The clients need to resolve the service's IP address. What is the recommended approach?