Designing for hybrid connectivity
There are mainly three factors that influence which hybrid connectivity service we choose: bandwidth, reliability, and security. The options range from a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection to direct fiber connectivity to Google's network.
Cloud VPN
Google Cloud's VPN service is Cloud VPN, which provides an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) tunnel endpoint in your VPC networks, to which you can establish VPN connections from an on-premises (or another cloud's) network via its VPN gateway. A VPN connection is established over public networks (that is, over the internet), though this is often unreliable and has no service-level guarantees. Public networks are also generally unsecure, but the VPN service encrypts traffic between the two gateways with the IPSec protocol, thus overcoming, to some extent, the lack of security in public networks.
Google Cloud offers two types of cloud VPN gateways:
- HA VPN: This is a...
