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Documentation and resources for Google Cloud products that connect your networks and workloads, load balance traffic, and help secure your network.

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Documentation and resources for Google Cloud products that connect your networks and workloads, load balance traffic, and secure your network.
Deploy and connect resources in a virtual version of a physical network.
Choose how to connect your other networks to Google Cloud.
Choose a load balancer for your workload.
Observe, monitor, and troubleshoot your Google Cloud network and project resources using a single Google Cloud console.
Plan your networking approach with resources across a variety of networking topics.
Planning guide for cloud network architects and system architects familiar with Google Cloud networking concepts.
Planning resources across a wide variety of hybrid and multicloud subjects.

Training, blog articles, and more

Go to training courses, blog articles, and other related resources.
View news, updates, and best practices for Google Cloud networking products and services.
Study configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting network components of your cloud-based infrastructure.
Get certified as a Google Cloud network engineer.

Networking products by use case

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Set up your Virtual Private Cloud network and connect it to your other networks.

Scale and control how workloads connect regionally and globally.
Access managed services, including Google APIs and services, privately from consumer VPC networks. Host managed services in producer VPC networks.
Initiate outbound connections to the internet or to other VPC networks from VM instances and other resources.
Optimize connectivity between systems on the internet and your Google Cloud instances.
Connect and manage your networks with a hub-and-spoke architecture, transfer data between your sites, and create VPC spokes to connect VPC networks.
Securely connect your peer network to Google's network through an IPsec Cloud VPN tunnel or connect two VPCs together by connecting two Cloud VPN gateways.
Connect your VPC networks and your other networks with low-latency, high-availability connections.
Dynamically exchange routes between your VPC network and a peered networking using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Make your services available at scale to your internal or external customers.

Scale, create, and update millions of DNS records reliably from anywhere in the world with Google’s anycast name servers.
Respond instantaneously to changes in user traffic load, network conditions, and backend health by diverting traffic to other regions in the world.
Enable programmability and extensibility at the edge and on load balancing data paths. Extends Google Cloud edge applications.
Register and manage domains.
Deliver high-throughput egress workloads, such as streaming video and large file downloads. Complements Cloud CDN.
Accelerate delivery of regularly accessed static content by caching it closer to your users. Cloud CDN serves a mix of static and dynamic latency-sensitive web assets.
Establish direct peering links with Google's edge network at various locations to direct your traffic from your VPC networks to a provider's network.

Block unauthorized traffic and implement threat prevention and detection services.

Protect your Google Cloud workloads from internal and external attacks by using a fully distributed firewall service with advanced protection capabilities.
Integrate third-party network appliances or service deployments with your Google Cloud workloads.
Secure egress web traffic (HTTPS or HTTP) by using this cloud-first service.
Protect sensitive data in Google Cloud services using security perimeters.
Initiate outbound connections to the internet or to other VPC networks from VM instances and other resources.
Acquire and manage Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for use with Cloud Load Balancing.
Protect your Google Cloud deployments from multiple types of threats, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and application attacks.
Detect threats including intrusions, malware, spyware, and command-and-control attacks on your network.

Monitor and troubleshoot your Google Cloud network.

Observe, monitor, and troubleshoot your Google Cloud network and project resources using a single Google Cloud console. Reduce the risk of outages and ensure security and compliance.
Record a sample of network flows sent from and received by VM instances, including instances used as GKE nodes.
Audit, verify, and analyze the effects of your firewall rules.
Clone the traffic of specific instances in your VPC network and forward it for examination.
Store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud and AWS.
Monitor the performance, availability, and overall health of cloud-powered applications.
Plan your GKE networking infrastructure.
Learn about networking for Google Cloud virtual machines.
Configure internal DNS for your Google Cloud virtual machines.
Connect to your Google Cloud virtual machines using SSH.
Configure VLAN and subnets on VMware Engine.
Send outbound traffic from Cloud Run to a VPC network.
Implement a service mesh on-premises or on Google Cloud, using open source or Google Cloud APIs.
Implement a suite of tools to monitor and manage a reliable service mesh on-premises or on Google Cloud.
Store objects with global edge caching.