All news with #cloud interconnect tag

VPC Flow Logs for Cross-Cloud VPN and Interconnect

🔍 Google Cloud has extended VPC Flow Logs to cover Cloud VPN tunnels and VLAN attachments for Cloud Interconnect and Cross-Cloud Interconnect, giving operators fuller visibility into hybrid and cross-cloud traffic. New gateway annotations (reporter and gateway object) add directional context and gateway metadata while logs retain 5-tuple granularity for precise flow identification. Use these logs to find elephant flows, audit Shared VPC hybrid bandwidth, validate DSCP markings, and troubleshoot on-prem-to-cloud connectivity. Logs integrate with Flow Analyzer for in-context analysis, connectivity tests, and natural-language queries.

Cross-Cloud VPC Peering with NVAs and Regional Affinity

🌐 This blog presents a reference architecture for deploying Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) in a regional hub-and-spoke design using VPC Network Peering. It explains how Google’s Cross-Cloud Network and software-defined global backbone support any-to-any connectivity while preserving regional affinity for latency and data residency. The post details traffic flows and key services such as Cloud Interconnect, HA VPN, Internal Passthrough Network Load Balancers, policy-based routes, and Private Service Connect to integrate managed services and workload VPCs.