Represents a URL Map resource.

Compute Engine has two URL Map resources:

• Global
• Regional

A URL map resource is a component of certain types of cloud load balancers and Traffic Director:

• urlMaps are used by global external Application Load Balancers, classic Application Load Balancers, and cross-region internal Application Load Balancers.
• regionUrlMaps are used by internal Application Load Balancers, regional external Application Load Balancers and regional internal Application Load Balancers.

For a list of supported URL map features by the load balancer type, see the Load balancing features: Routing and traffic management table.

For a list of supported URL map features for Traffic Director, see the Traffic Director features: Routing and traffic management table.

This resource defines mappings from hostnames and URL paths to either a backend service or a backend bucket.

To use the global urlMaps resource, the backend service must have a loadBalancingScheme of either EXTERNAL,EXTERNAL_MANAGED, or INTERNAL_SELF_MANAGED. To use the regionUrlMaps resource, the backend service must have aloadBalancingScheme of INTERNAL_MANAGED. For more information, read URL Map Concepts.