Google Cloud Networking is a global, secure, and scalable network infrastructure for cloud applications: VPC, connectivity, load balancing, and traffic protection.
Google Cloud Networking is a software-defined networking platform that lets you create and manage virtual networks, connect hybrid infrastructures, balance loads, and protect traffic using Google's global network. The solution is designed for low latency, high throughput, and reliability.
Advantages
- Scalability: expand your network without purchasing hardware, create multiple VPCs/subnets.
- Management and control: centralized configuration of routing, access policies, and firewalls.
- Performance: Use Google's global network for low latency and high speed.
Use cases
- Hybrid connectivity: Secure data center and cloud connectivity via VPN or dedicated channels.
- Load balancing: traffic distribution across instances/regions, high availability.
- Delivery optimization: global routing and traffic management mechanisms.
Benefits for customers
- Security: DDoS protection, firewall rules, private access to services.
- Reliability: redundancy and stability of infrastructure.
- Simplified operations: less manual work and unified network management logic.