Network Service Tiers
Each organization has different use cases and requirements for its presence in Google Cloud. We will use different services, deployed in various locations, and will choose our own payment options.
Why should we not be able to do the same when it comes to networking? Indeed, Google Cloud was the first major cloud provider to offer a tiered model for networking, allowing customers to optimize for either performance or cost, depending on their needs.
To make things simple, the two available tiers are called Standard Tier and Premium Tier.
The main difference between them is that in the Standard Tier, the traffic between the internet and VM instances in our VPC network is routed over the internet in general, while in the Premium Tier, traffic is kept within Google’s network as much as possible, which means better performance, obviously at a higher cost.
The Premium Tier routes traffic using Google’s network until it reaches the user’...
