Google Cloud Router

 

• Cloud Router is a fully distributed and managed Google Cloud service that helps you define custom dynamic routes and scales with your network traffic.

Features

• It works with both legacy networks and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks.
• Cloud Router utilizes Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to exchange routes between your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network and your on-premises network.
• Using Cloud Router is required or recommended in the following cases:
  • Required for Cloud NAT
  • Required for Cloud Interconnect and HA VPN
  • A recommended configuration option for Classic VPN
• When you extend your on-premises network to Google Cloud, use Cloud Router to dynamically exchange routes between your Google Cloud networks and your on-premises network.
• Cloud Router peers with your on-premises VPN gateway or router. The routers exchange topology information through BGP.

Route advertisements

• Through BGP, Cloud Router advertises the IP addresses of Google resources that clients in your on-premises network can reach. Your on-premises network then sends packets to your VPC network that have a destination IP address matching an advertised IP range. After reaching Google Cloud, your VPC network’s firewall rules and routes determine how Google Cloud route the packets.
• Default Route Advertisement – Cloud Router advertises subnets in its region for regional dynamic routing or all subnets in a VPC network for global dynamic routing.
• Custom Route Advertisement – You explicitly specify the routes that a Cloud Router advertises to your on-premises network.