Basic Google Cloud networking services
Google Cloud offers other managed networking services with advanced features and little to no maintenance overhead. Let’s cover the most important ones.
Cloud DNS
The internet was built on top of Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). IP makes it possible to assign each host a unique address, also known as an IP address, while TCP takes care of transmitting the information between two IP addresses. We can think of IP as a gigantic phone book and TCP as a big team of couriers responsible for delivering information from a source host to a destination.
There are two versions of the IP protocol that co-exist at the time of writing. The older one, IPv4, provides a 32-bit pool with up to 4,294,967,296 different addresses, most of which are currently in use. A newer version, IPv6, was built to solve the address shortage and added some interesting new features, providing a 128-bits pool with up to 340,282,366,920...
