Hybrid connectivity on Google Cloud is not a one-dimensional choice between “VPN” and “private circuit.” HA VPN and Cloud Interconnect solve related connectivity problems with […]
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Google Cloud PCNE: Cloud NAT, Private Google Access, and Private Service Connect
Cloud NAT, Private Google Access, and Private Service Connect are often grouped under “private networking,” but they solve different problems. Cloud NAT provides source network […]
Google Cloud PCNE: Load Balancing
Google Cloud Load Balancing is a family of services, not one product with a single behavior. The correct design depends on protocol, whether Google terminates […]
Google Cloud PCNE: Network Connectivity Center
Network Connectivity Center (NCC) gives Google Cloud a hub-and-spoke control model for connecting VPC networks, hybrid sites, and supported network appliances or gateways. It is […]
Google Cloud PCNE: Cloud Armor, Cloud NGFW, and VPC Firewall Rules
Google Cloud offers several network and application security controls that are easy to collapse into the word “firewall.” VPC firewall rules and firewall policies govern […]
Google Cloud PCSE: Workload Identity Federation vs Service Account Keys
External workloads often need to call Google Cloud APIs, but the way they obtain credentials changes the security model dramatically. A downloaded service-account key is […]
Google Cloud PCSE: VPC Service Controls and Access Context Manager
Identity and Access Management answers whether a principal is allowed to perform an action. VPC Service Controls adds a different question: even if the principal […]
Google Cloud PCSE: CMEK, Cloud HSM, or Cloud EKM?
Google Cloud encryption discussions often mix together three terms that describe different layers of the design. Customer-managed encryption keys, or CMEK, describe an integration in […]
Google Cloud PCSE: Binary Authorization and Artifact Analysis
Container security is not solved by scanning an image once, and it is not solved by blocking unsigned images without knowing what the signature means. […]
Google Cloud PCSE: Security Command Center, Threat Detection & Cloud IDS
Security Command Center, Event Threat Detection, and Cloud IDS all surface security findings, but they occupy different positions in the detection architecture. Security Command Center […]
Google Cloud PCA: Rehost, Replatform, and Refactor on Google Cloud
Cloud migration strategy is often summarized with labels such as rehost, replatform, and refactor. Those labels are useful only when they express a real decision […]
Google Cloud PCA: Regional vs Multi-Region Architecture on Google Cloud
A regional architecture and a multi-region architecture can both be highly available, but they protect against different failures and impose different cost, consistency, and operational […]
Google Cloud PCA: IAM, Organization Policy, and VPC Service Controls
IAM, Organization Policy, and VPC Service Controls are all governance and security mechanisms in Google Cloud, but they answer different questions. IAM decides who can […]
Google Cloud PCA: Shared VPC, VPC Peering, and Private Service Connect
Google Cloud has several ways to connect resources privately, but Shared VPC, VPC Network Peering, and Private Service Connect solve different organizational and technical problems. […]
Google Cloud PCA: Choosing Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, or Spanner
Google Cloud offers several managed relational database platforms, but Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Spanner are not three tiers of the same product. They represent different […]