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Enterprises continue to embrace hybrid and multi-cloud as they migrate and leverage the cloud to build and run applications. According to research conducted by IDC in 2022, 64% of customers use multiple cloud providers to provide public cloud IaaS services, and 79% of customers say they need to simplify and unify the way they manage and secure their private cloud infrastructure to improve business resiliency. Enterprises need simple connectivity at the physical and service layers, and the ability to support distributed cloud applications and SaaS workloads in minutes.
Networking is often the first step, but connecting and securing a distributed environment can be complex. Today, Google announced a major expansion of Google's Cloud Interconnect portfolio with Cross-Cloud Interconnect, which allows you to connect any public cloud with Google Cloud over a secure, high-performance network, enabling organizations to run on multiple clouds Run applications, simplify SaaS networking multi-cloud environments, and migrate workloads from one cloud to another. Cross-Cloud Interconnect is now generally available in many locations around the world for customers connecting to the following cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Alibaba Cloud), with plans to provide additional cloud providers based on customer demand support.
Google has also made significant improvements to Private Service Connect to support cross-cloud interconnection and automated service connection strategies. Additionally, Google added new Cloud Interconnect capabilities and released a new total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis showing that Google Cloud Networking is less expensive.
1. Realize seamless multi-cloud connection through cross-cloud interconnection
The rise of distributed applications has been a challenge for cloud infrastructure teams trying to ensure connectivity, performance, security and reliability. Linking clouds together often requires complex configurations, specialized hardware, and lengthy operational processes. Interconnection across clouds simplifies provisioning, minimizes hardware and reduces overhead.
Cross-Cloud Interconnect offers 10 Gbps or 100 Gbps options, requires no new hardware, has the same functionality as Cloud Interconnect, and is backed by an SLA. Customers with multi-cloud environments can leverage cross-cloud interconnection to:
· Private and secure connections across clouds
·With 99.99% SLA wire speed performance and high reliability
Reduce TCO without the complexity and cost of managing infrastructure
Cross-cloud interconnection architecture diagram between Google Cloud and cloud service providers
Cross-Cloud Interconnect is available in major cities around the world with many of Google's partners, and since Cross-Cloud Interconnect is a fully managed service, it is very simple to set up, as you can see in this demo.
"As global enterprises seek to adopt hybrid and multi-cloud network services as part of their digital transformation journeys, they increasingly recognize the strategic value of cross-cloud interconnection capabilities as integral to their business success. Google Cloud's Cross-cloud interconnect products address a broad range of hybrid and multi-cloud networking use cases spanning the data center, cloud core and edge, while delivering multi-gigabit speeds, disruptive pricing, high availability and ease of use.” – Vijay Bhagavath, IDC Cloud and Data Center Networking Research Vice President
Early access customers such as Walmart and Pexip are leveraging cross-cloud interconnection to achieve faster business outcomes.
"Walmart runs a seamless platform across multiple cloud providers to accelerate innovation. Google partnered with Google Cloud to leverage their global network for hybrid and multi-cloud networking. With Cross-Cloud Interconnect, Google was able to simplify connectivity between cloud providers, Reduce production time and lower overall costs." - Gerald Bothello, Senior Director of Software Engineering, Walmart
"Pexip provides a secure multi-technology video conferencing experience, helping Google's customers secure and personalize their meetings. Through the Cross-Cloud Interconnect and the Google-Google partnership, Google can seamlessly connect platforms from multiple clouds to Extend Google's reach and bring Google's solutions to a wider audience at scale." - Thomas Guggenbuhl, Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Operations, Pexip
Google continues to work with Google's partner ecosystem to expand colocation facilities around the world and jointly drive the simplification of multi-cloud connectivity for Google's customers.
"Equinix provides a global digital infrastructure that enables businesses to connect anywhere. Google is excited to partner with Google Cloud to expand its multi-cloud networking strategy to provide businesses with scalable, seamless, high-bandwidth connectivity." - Equinix Platform Alliance Business Director of DevelopmentBill Bushman
2. Use the hybrid connection of Private Service Connect and SaaS
Configuring the network to run producer services can be time-consuming, slowing service rollout and delaying cloud integration. Private Service Connect makes it easier to create private and secure connections from your VPC to Google, partners, or your own services, simplifying network configuration for published services and SaaS applications. In addition to Google services like Apigee, BeyondCorp Enterprise, Cloud Composer, and Google Kubernetes Engine, Private Service Connect also supports many partner services like Datastax, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and more.
Recently, Google announced hybrid and global access to Private Service Connect, allowing on-premises and multi-cloud customers to privately access producer services in Google Cloud from anywhere. Private Service Connect global access is now generally available, allowing customers to access Google and partner-published services from their local locations and across regions.
Google announced the following new enhancements to Private Service Connect:
· Private Service Connect over Cross-Cloud Interconnect is now generally available. Customers can access producer services in Google Cloud from the Cross-Cloud Interconnect.
· Service Connection Policies, in preview, allow network administrators to create policies to automate Private Service Connect connections for hosted services. This allows service administrators to easily deploy, update and delete published services connected through Private Service Connect without opening a network ticket.
3. A secure and highly resilient foundation
Google's dedicated and partner interconnect products provide secure, highly resilient connectivity for hybrid cloud networks. Dedicated Interconnect is now available in 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps options at 144 locations around the world, 14 of which were recently added by Google.
Google has also added new enhancements to cloud and cross-cloud interconnect, including new encryption options, higher performance and improved network resiliency, and faster link detection to ensure your mission-critical applications are available and works fine. Enhancements include the following:
Secure Hybrid Connection
Cloud Interconnect's MACsec, available in preview in early Q3 2023, provides point-to-point wire-speed L2 encryption to secure "first/last mile" communications between customers and Google Cloud.
· HA VPN over Interconnect is generally available and provides IPSec encryption to protect communications between a customer's on-premises VPN gateway and the HA VPN gateway in Google Cloud.
higher performance
9K MTU support (currently in preview) enables large data packets to deliver higher throughput through interconnect products.
Bidirectional forwarding detection is now generally available, a path interruption detection protocol that speeds up link failure detection to initiate traffic rerouting.
· BGP enhancements including support for custom learned routes, increased prefix size, and non-link-local addressing are currently in preview.
3. Lower total cost of ownership
Google Cloud Networking provides a global-scale, enterprise-ready network that provides seamless access to partner and third-party services with a consistent management strategy from on-premises to the cloud—at a lower total cost of ownership ( TCO) to other cloud service providers.
According to a recent paper by the Enterprise Strategy Group, customers running on Google Cloud can reduce their TCO by up to 28%. In the economic advantages of Google Cloud Advanced Network Services, ESG considered the direct costs of network services, as well as network management and ongoing management costs. ESG predicts that customers can reduce connection and egress costs by up to 22% and cloud network management costs by up to 28% when using Google Cloud compared to other major public cloud providers. A blog with more details can be found here.
These savings are a direct result of the global scale and reach of Google Cloud Web Services and a rich set of native capabilities that enable customers to easily deploy, manage, scale, optimize and secure hybrid or multi-cloud workloads. The new products and features discussed earlier in this article extend these capabilities even further.