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Cross-Cloud Network

Modernize your network with service centric Cross-Cloud Network

Simplify hybrid and multicloud networking, and secure your workloads, data, and users with Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Network.

Overview

Connect any app, any service, in any cloud

To accelerate application roll out and performance, use service centric, any-to-any connectivity built on Google's foundational global network. Google Cloud provides an encrypted SLA-backed global backbone with extensive global presence, with 187 PoPs in over 200 countries and territories. Get seamless cross-cloud connectivity and private access to cloud-native services for distributed applications hosted anywhere.

Boost security to minimize breaches

With Cloud NGFW, you can protect your applications with industry leading threat efficacy. Improve network security posture control and simplify the integration of partner security solutions with Cross-Cloud Network.

Reduce costs and operating overhead

Simplify hybrid and multicloud networking with Cross-Cloud Interconnect, a high-performance, natively encrypted network connection. Reduce operational overhead with an open, secure, and optimized network platform designed to help you accelerate your business.


Simplify with service-centric networking

Connect managed SaaS and Google services with Private Service Connect everywhere. With service-centric Cross-Cloud Network, you can connect and secure services easily across clouds and on-prem.

How It Works

Cross-Cloud Network is a global network platform that is open, secure, and optimized for applications and users across on-prem and clouds. It uses Google Cloud’s planet-scale network for multicloud connectivity and to secure applications and users.

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Discover how Google Cloud's new networking platform redefines how modern distributed applications are connected, delivered, and accessed.

Common Uses

Connect and secure distributed apps

Connect and protect your data across clouds

Google Cloud streamlines connections between you and other clouds with secure, high-speed direct connections able to prioritize your most mission-critical traffic. Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) within Google Cloud, on-prem, and other clouds for full multicloud secure networking.

A service-centric Cross-Cloud Network provides secure, bi-directional, end-to-end connectivity to services across clouds. 

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Cross-Cloud network public front end diagram

Connect and protect your data across clouds

Google Cloud streamlines connections between you and other clouds with secure, high-speed direct connections able to prioritize your most mission-critical traffic. Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) within Google Cloud, on-prem, and other clouds for full multicloud secure networking.

A service-centric Cross-Cloud Network provides secure, bi-directional, end-to-end connectivity to services across clouds. 

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Cross-Cloud network public front end diagram

Cross-Cloud Networking for Distributed Applications - Solution Design Guide

Cross-Cloud Network enables you to distribute workloads and services across multiple cloud and on-premises networks. The Cross-Cloud Network provides developers and operators the experience of a single cloud across multiple clouds. The Solution Design Guide can be found on the Cloud Architecture Center.

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Deliver internet-facing apps and content

Global front end for internet-facing applications

You likely have applications in multiple environments and clouds, including some on-prem. Cross-Cloud Network improves the user experience of applications through our global front end. It provides you with built-in health checking capabilities so that you know your applications are served from the optimal location, and with Service Extensions you are able to customize the data processing of your load balancers to suit your specific application or business requirements.

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Cross-Cloud Network front end

Global front end for internet-facing applications

You likely have applications in multiple environments and clouds, including some on-prem. Cross-Cloud Network improves the user experience of applications through our global front end. It provides you with built-in health checking capabilities so that you know your applications are served from the optimal location, and with Service Extensions you are able to customize the data processing of your load balancers to suit your specific application or business requirements.

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Cross-Cloud Network front end

Connect internet-facing applications anywhere

Google Cloud's global front end solution helps organizations manage globally scaled applications across multiple origins, delivering high performance and protection from web attacks. It simplifies management of multicloud cloud web applications.

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Secure access for hybrid workforce

Consistent security for users using SSE vendor of choice

Provide best-in-class security for hybrid workforce through an integrated open partner ecosystem so you can connect to leading Security Service Edge (SSE) providers. Secure users using managed and unmanaged devices with Secure Enterprise Browser (SEB).

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hybrid workforce CCN diagram

Consistent security for users using SSE vendor of choice

Provide best-in-class security for hybrid workforce through an integrated open partner ecosystem so you can connect to leading Security Service Edge (SSE) providers. Secure users using managed and unmanaged devices with Secure Enterprise Browser (SEB).

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hybrid workforce CCN diagram

Take the next step with Google Cloud

Receive customized training with product specialists

Deep dive into the technical details

Vertex AI with PSC

Advanced load balancing optimizations

Cloud Armor for NLB/VM with user defined rules

FAQ

What is Cross-Cloud Network?

Cross-Cloud Network is a global cloud networking platform built on Google’s private backbone with seamless any-to-any connectivity, enhanced application experience, and ML-powered security across all users and workloads wherever they may be. 

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.


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