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 when assembling distributed applications that combine services from multiple cloud providers and on-prem data centers. Google’s Cross-Cloud Network provides high-performance, low-latency connectivity with integrated cloud-native security and simplicity of operations.

Cross-Cloud Network offers connectivity with performance, privacy, and operational simplification using the Google Cloud suite of external connectivity: SD-WAN, HA-VPN, Cloud Interconnect, Site-to-site Interconnect, and Cross-Cloud Interconnect. Best-in-class security is integrated natively in the Cross-Cloud Network with the Cloud NGFW, NSIM, and SSE partner ecosystem, and the Google front end is secured with the Cloud WAAP for Cloud Armor Web Application Firewalling and Service Extensions for API security. Application resources and services are abstracted with Global 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. 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 Platform or with third-party tooling of choice. The Unified 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 decorrelated 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 and Broadcom Symantec.