The economic advantages of Google Cloud Networking

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6 considerations when evaluating cloud networking

The report goes into quantitative and qualitative details of the areas businesses should consider when choosing among cloud service provider networks. Let’s explore these areas and how Google Cloud Networking services support each one.

#1 – There are differences between cloud network architectures. Robust cloud networks should be software-defined, scalable, simple, and automatable. A well-documented architecture, based on consistent and transparent innovation on network performance, can significantly reduce administrative overhead. The Google Clouds network meets all of these requirements and more. Google has documented its Andromeda stack for software-defined networking, contributes significantly to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC standards, and provides a global public view of cross-regional network latency and throughput. Unlike other cloud service providers, its networking capabilities are global in scope, which helps customers reduce architecture complexity and simplify network management.

#2 – A cloud network should provide simple and flexible hybrid cloud connectivity. Google Cloud’s hybrid connectivity options provide flexibility for customers’ business requirements. Cloud VPN offers high availability connectivity that is easy to set up. For organizations that need more stable and higher bandwidth connections, Cloud Interconnect options such as Dedicated and Partner Interconnect provide connectivity. Private Service Connect, meanwhile, enables secure and private access to Google Cloud, third-party, or customer-managed cloud services.

In Google Cloud, a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a global construct different from other cloud service providers. You can create a single VPC and provision several isolated subnets in any region within the same VPC. This allows customers to create and manage fewer VPCs, thereby reducing operational overhead.

#3 – A cloud network should make it easy to scale and accelerate workloads. Google Cloud Managed Instance groups and cluster autoscaling help you automatically scale your resources. There is a robust set of Load Balancers in Google Cloud that support various traffic options to meet global and regional requirements. Load balancers distribute traffic between your backend targets, which can exist inside and outside Google Cloud.

With Cloud CDN for static content and Media CDN for streaming content, customers benefit from the same global footprint and network performance as other Google services like YouTube. Customers can check CDN performance as measured by Cedexis and made publicly available here.

#4 – A cloud network should ensure secure hybrid cloud operations. Google Cloud services such as Cloud NAT, Cloud Firewall, and Cloud Armor can be deployed at different points in your environment to provide a layered defense approach. Cloud Armor made headlines last year when it helped a customer mitigate a level 7 DDoS attack at 46 million requests per second. In addition to native features, Google Cloud also supports third-party appliances, including many partner solutions available directly on the Google Cloud Marketplace.

#5 – A cloud network should provide visibility and control. Google Cloud Network Intelligence Center provides real-time observability for your network. It does this through individual modules (Network Topology, Connectivity Test, Performance Dashboard, Firewall Insights, Network Analyzer) that provide targeted visibility into aspects of your network infrastructure including latency, throughput, connectivity between specific resources, and resource configuration. This resource analysis highlights configuration issues that can cause network failures, lead to resource exhaustion, or result in suboptimal performance often proactively before an issue can be observed by the end user.

#6 – Initiatives must support modernization efforts. Google Cloud supports application modernization with many services to help customers both migrate and build applications on the platform. Google Kubernetes Engines (GKE) provides large-scale Kubernetes deployments with up to 15,000 nodes per cluster, introducing next-generation features such as GKE Gateway Controller, a production implementation of the new Kubernetes Gateway API. Google also continues to develop and/or contribute to many popular open standards and open source projects such as HTTP3, QUIC, gRPC, eBPF, Envoy, Istio, and of course Kubernetes itself.

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The comprehensive report goes into much more detail with comparisons, percentages, graphs and charts to assess the cost benefits customers can and should expect from their cloud service provider. To learn more, download your copy of the ESG report: The Economic Advantage of Google Clouds Advanced Networking Services today.

For more information on cloud networking, visit https://cloud.google.com/products/networking.

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