The cloud is an unbelievable useful resource, however you possibly can’t get probably the most out of it for those who can’t work together with it effectively. And since community connectivity isn’t a one-size-fits-all state of affairs, you want choices for connecting your on-premises community or one other cloud supplier to Google’s community.
When you’ll want to hook up with Google’s community you may have the next choices:
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Connecting to Google Cloud: Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN
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Connecting two or extra on-premises websites by means of Google Cloud: Community Connectivity Heart
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Connecting to Google Workspace and Google APIs: Peering
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Connecting to CDN suppliers: CDN Interconnect
Connecting to Google Cloud: Cloud Interconnect and Cloud VPN
If you’ll want to encrypt site visitors to Google Cloud,you want a decrease throughput answer, or you’re experimenting with migrating your workloads to Google Cloud, you possibly can select Cloud VPN. In the event you want an enterprise-grade connection to Google Cloud that has larger throughput, you possibly can select Devoted Interconnect or Accomplice Interconnect.
Cloud Interconnect
Cloud Interconnect offers two choices: you possibly can create a devoted connection (Devoted Interconnect) or use a service supplier (Accomplice Interconnect) to connect with Digital Personal Cloud (VPC) networks. In case your bandwidth wants are excessive (10Gpbs to 100Gbps) and you’ll attain Google’s community in a colocation facility then Devoted Interconnect is a cheap possibility. In the event you don’t require as a lot bandwidth (50Mbps to 50Gbps) or cannot bodily meet Google’s community in a colocation facility to succeed in your VPC networks, you should utilize Accomplice Interconnect to connect with service suppliers that join on to Google.
Cloud VPN
Cloud VPN helps you to securely join your on-premises community to your VPC community by means of an IPsecVPN connection in a single area. Visitors touring between the 2 networks is encrypted by one VPN gateway after which decrypted by the opposite VPN gateway. This motion protects your information because it travels over the web. You can too join two situations of Cloud VPN to one another. HA VPNprovides an SLA of 99.99% service availability.
Connecting to Google Cloud: Community Connectivity Heart
Community Connectivity Heart (in preview) helps connecting completely different enterprise websites outdoors of Google Cloud by utilizing Google’s community as a large space community (WAN). On-premises networks can include on-premises information facilities and department or distant places of work.
Community Connectivity Heart is a hub-and-spoke mannequin for community connectivity administration in Google Cloud. The hub useful resource reduces operational complexity by means of a easy, centralized connectivity administration mannequin. Your on-premises networks hook up with the hub through one of many following spoke varieties: HA VPN tunnels, VLAN attachments, or router equipment situations that you simply or choose companions deploy inside Google Cloud.
Connecting to Google Workspace and Google APIs: Peering
In the event you want entry to solely Google Workspace or supported Google APIs, you may have two choices:
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Direct Peering to straight join (peer) with Google Cloud at a Google edge location
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Service Peering to look with Google by connecting by means of an ISP (assist supplier), which in flip friends with Google.
Direct Peering exists outdoors of Google Cloud. Until you’ll want to entry Google Workspace functions, the advisable strategies of entry to Google Cloud are Devoted Interconnect, Accomplice Interconnect, or Cloud VPN.
Connecting to CDN suppliers: CDN Interconnect
CDN Interconnect (not proven within the picture) allows choose third-party Content material Supply Community (CDN) suppliers to ascertain direct peering hyperlinks with Google’s edge community at varied areas, which lets you direct your site visitors out of your VPC networks to a supplier’s community. Your community site visitors egressing from Google Cloud by means of considered one of these hyperlinks advantages from the direct connectivity to supported CDN suppliers and is billed mechanically with diminished pricing. This selection is advisable for top quantity egress and frequent content material updates within the CDN.
For a extra in-depth look into service take a look at the documentation.
