Use Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud for secure communication between services
March 31, 2025

Use Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud for secure communication between services

Vinaya Kumar B | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Standard Tier

Overall Satisfaction with Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Most of the microservices I use are deployed in Cloud Run. I configured a serverless connector for these services to communicate with each other privately. The serverless connector can be configured with min and max number of instances so that it can automatically scale based on workload. Being serverless the cost of using the connector works out low for my use case.

Pros

  • Serverless connector helps Cloud Run services to communicate privately.
  • Serverless connector supports auto scaling.
  • Being serverless, the cost is based on usage for serverless connector.

Cons

  • Cannot reduce minimum number of instances than the previously set value. Workaround is to delete the connector and create a new one with a lower minimum number of instances.
  • Cannot set minimum number of instances below 2 for a serverless connector.
  • The instance and bandwidth options for a serverless connector seem to be too few.
  • Monthly cost for VPC is less compared our other cloud services costs.
  • Once set up the VPC can be used for numerous other services without any further changes. There is less operational overhead.
  • Seems a more secure way to configure a VPC.
VPC is a difficult concept to grasp and recommendations for configuring it would be helpful in educating the users to make the right choice while using the product in configuring networking for their cloud deployments. Also, the user interface can be intuitively designed so as to suggest templates to perform common configurations with regard to VPC.
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Most of my cloud services are deployed in Google Cloud. As such I decided to use Google Cloud VPC as compared to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Support for serverless connector is super useful given that most of the micro services I build are deployed as Cloud Run services.

Do you think Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) again?

Yes

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is well suited to use when you have micro services that need to communicate with each other privately. When the micro services are deployed as Cloud Run services or Cloud Functions then you can use a serverless connector for communications between the micro services. It would be useful if the product can provide some recommendations to configure networking in cloud for best performance.

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