How to connect to VPNs between AWS and GCP

Derek.Kim
12 min readAug 6, 2023

VPNs in a Multi-Cloud Environment

Maintaining efficient data communication and security in a multi-cloud environment requires a secure and reliable connection between each cloud. Virtual private networks (VPNs) play an important role to do this. VPN allows you to securely transfer data by creating an encrypted connection between multi-cloud environments such as AWS and GCP. I’m going to explain how to connect a site-to-site VPN between AWS and GCP very easily, and besides this post, I also introduce how to query domains in each cloud environment in the following post, and it would be good if you read it in order.

  1. How to connect to VPNs
  2. GCP Private Service Connect and other GCP Private Access methods
  3. Use GCP Cloud DNS from AWS
  4. Use AWS Route53 from GCP

Benefits of VPN Connectivity

  • Secure Connection: Site-to-site VPNs protect communication between networks by creating encrypted tunnels over the Internet. This keeps your data safe while it is being transmitted over the Internet.
  • Data Security: Site-to-site VPN encrypts data transmission to prevent unauthorized access and data leakage from outside. This improves the security of business data and protects sensitive information from exposure.
  • Efficient Data Communication: The isolated VPCs of each Cloud Service Provider (CSP) can be linked to enable…

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Derek.Kim

SRE who loves DevOps and Platform Engineering & Cloud GDE(Champion Innovator - Security and Networking)