Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Managed networking functionality for your Google Cloud resources.

New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Google Cloud during the first 90 days. All customers get free usage (up to monthly limits) of select products, including BigQuery and Compute Engine.

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    Provide flexibility to scale and control how workloads connect regionally and globally

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    Access VPCs without needing to replicate connectivity or administrative policies in each region

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    Bring your own IP addresses to Google’s network infrastructure across all regions

Benefits

Global

A single VPC can span multiple regions without communicating across the public internet. For on-premises, you can share a connection between VPC and on-premises resources with all regions in a single VPC.

Shareable

With a single VPC for an entire organization, teams can be isolated within projects, with separate billing and quotas, yet still maintain a shared private IP space and access to commonly used services.

Expandable

Google Cloud VPCs let you increase the IP space of any subnets without any workload shutdown or downtime. This gives you flexibility and growth options to meet your needs.

Key features

Key features

VPC network

VPC can automatically set up your virtual topology, configuring prefix ranges for your subnets and network policies, or you can configure your own. You can also expand CIDR ranges without downtime.

Packet mirroring

Troubleshoot your existing VPCs by collecting and inspecting network traffic at scale, providing intrusion detection, application performance monitoring, and compliance controls.

VPN

Securely connect your existing network to VPC network over IPsec.

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Customers

Customers

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  • Accelerated cloud migration using Bring Your Own IP feature

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  • Significantly reduced networking infrastructure costs

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Documentation

Documentation

Google Cloud Basics
Using VPC

Virtual Private Cloud documentation, how-to-guides, and support.

Google Cloud Basics
Creating a virtual private network (VPN)

How-to-guides, tutorials, and other support to create a VPN.

Google Cloud Basics
Using Cloud Router

Documentation and resources for Cloud Router.

Google Cloud Basics
Extend your on-premises network to Google with Interconnect

Learn how to use Dedicated Interconnect to connect directly to Google or use Partner Interconnect to connect to Google through a supported service provider.

Tutorial
Qwiklab: Networking in Google Cloud

A two-day class giving participants a broad study of networking options on Google Cloud in addition to common network design patterns and automated deployment.

All features

All features

VPC network VPC can automatically set up your virtual topology, configuring prefix ranges for your subnets and network policies, or you can configure your own. You can also expand CIDR ranges without downtime.
Packet mirroring Troubleshoot your existing VPCs by collecting and inspecting network traffic at scale, providing intrusion detection, application performance monitoring, and compliance controls.
VPN Securely connect your existing network to VPC network over IPsec.
Firewall Segment your networks with a global distributed firewall to restrict access to instances. Firewall Rules Logging lets you audit, verify, and analyze the effects of your firewall rules.
VPC peering Configure private communication across the same or different organizations without bandwidth bottlenecks or single points of failure.
Shared VPC Configure a VPC network to be shared across several projects in your organization. Connectivity routes and firewalls associated are managed centrally. Your developers have their own projects with separate billing and quota, while they simply connect to a shared private network, where they can communicate.
Routes Forward traffic from one instance to another instance within the same network, even across subnets, without requiring external IP addresses.
VPC flow logs Flow logs capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces on Compute Engine. VPC flow logs help with network monitoring, forensics, real-time security analysis, and expense optimization. Google Cloud flow logs are updated every five seconds, providing immediate visibility.
Simple and complex architectures Host globally distributed multi-tier applications by creating a VPC with subnets. Connect Google Cloud or externally hosted databases to Google’s machine learning services by creating a VPC with subnets and VPN access.
Disaster recovery With application replication, create backup Google Cloud compute capacity, then revert back once the incident is over.
Private access Get private access to Google services, such as storage, big data, analytics, or machine learning, without having to give your service a public IP address. Configure your application’s front end to receive internet requests and shield your backend services from public endpoints, all while being able to access Google Cloud services.
Bring your own IPs Bring your own IP addresses to Google’s network across all regions to minimize downtime during migration and reduce your networking infrastructure cost. After you bring your own IPs, Google Cloud will advertise them globally to all peers. Your prefixes can be broken into blocks as small as 16 addresses (/28), creating more flexibility with your resources.

Pricing

Pricing

VPC offers compelling price/performance pricing. Learn more.

Ingress and egress: Traffic type Price
Ingress No charge
Egress to the same zone* No charge
Egress to a different Google Cloud service within the same region No charge
Egress to Google products (such as YouTube, Maps, Drive)** No charge
Egress between zones in the same region, or regions within the US $0.01/GB
Intercontinental egress traffic—from Japan***

0–1 TB: $0.14–$0.23/GB

1–10 TB: $0.14–$0.22/GB

10+ TB: $0.12–$0.20/GB

Intercontinental egress traffic—from other regions***

0–1 TB: $0.12–$0.23/GB

1–10 TB: $0.11–$0.22/GB

10+ TB: $0.08–$0.20/GB

*No charge for egress through network IP addresses; there are charges for egress through external IP addresses, even if in the same zone

**Promotional pricing

***See Internet Egress traffic rates

External IP address Price/Hour (USD)
Static IP address (assigned but unused) $0.010
Static and ephemeral IP addresses in use on standard VM instances $0.004*
Static and ephemeral IP addresses in use on preemptible VM instances $0.002*
Static and ephemeral IP addresses attached to forwarding rules No charge

*Charges between January 1st, 2020 and June 30th, 2020 are waived

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Google Cloud SKUs apply.

Partners

Packet Mirroring partners