Cross-Cloud Network

Customers should consider Cross-Cloud Network for hybrid and/or multicloud environments where services or workloads need to connect securely. This includes running distributed applications, AI workloads for training and inferencing, internet-facing applications, and content delivery.

Cross-Cloud Network leverages the entire Google  Cloud Networking portfolio to offer solutions designed for customers. It offers simplified connectivity with performance, privacy, and operational efficiency. Customers with hybrid and multicloud networks may use SD-WAN, Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect, and Cross-Cloud Interconnect together with Network Connectivity Center. Best-in-class security including partner security is integrated natively in the Cross-Cloud Network with Cloud NGFW, Cloud Armor, Cloud Secure Web Gateway, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, NSIM, and SSE partner ecosystem. The Google Cloud front end is secured with Cloud Armor providing web application firewalling and DDoS protection. Application resources and services are abstracted with Cloud CDN, Cloud Load Balancing, and Private Service Connect to enable a uniform application delivery model across multiple clouds and private data centers.

The Cross-Cloud Network is a service that provides high-performance, low-latency interconnectivity for best-in-class application services across clouds. With application awareness on Cloud Interconnect, Google Cloud is the first major cloud service provider to offer a managed traffic differentiation solution. It also offers cloud-native best-in-class security for user-to-app and app-to-app security. Users can manage security policies natively in Google Cloud or with third-party tooling of choice. The global front end unifies reachability, load balancing, and security across multiple clouds while optimizing connectivity paths and content caching for optimal application experience. Finally, the Cross-Cloud Network offers multi-regional reliability and resiliency across all relevant services.

The Cross-Cloud Network can integrate with virtually any external network. Integration with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Alibaba Cloud networks is streamlined with Cross-Cloud Interconnect.

Up until now, businesses have had to build and maintain multicloud networks from a collection of independent and uncorrelated services and components. Multicloud networks put the responsibility on the business to integrate disparate technologies and broker agreements with a multitude of providers. The Cross-Cloud Network is a purpose-built, integrated network infrastructure for the enablement of cross-cloud application and user communications. Cross-Cloud Networking is the new era in cloud networking and provides a true cloud native cross-cloud infrastructure with performance, privacy, security, and simplicity.

Cross-Cloud Network improves application experience by providing an optimal latency topology based on Google’s pervasive connectivity and by natively integrating security services over high-speed connections. This guarantees application communications always follow the best available path without incurring a performance hit when the flows are subject to security controls.

Multicloud applications are enabled by assembling the best possible cross-cloud topology over best-in-class links, making security cloud native and centralizing the abstraction of application services and workloads in other clouds. 

Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom Symantec, and Fortinet.