Networking in Google Cloud — Monthly catch up -’2025 edition (monthly updates)
Updated every month for ‘2025
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Who am I ? I’m a Developer Advocate @ Google. In 2025 there will be a lot of huge announcements for Google Cloud networking 🤫. Nowadays AI is all around with people trying to understand how they can apply it to their use cases, but without the network nothing exist.
So here are things you should catch up on for networking in Google Cloud.
(2025 Edition) The latest updates are at the top.
July — 2025 🏖️🏖️
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#️⃣ 1 — Policy-Based Routes: IPv6 and Peered VPC Next Hop: Gain more granular control over your network traffic with policy-based routes that now support IPv6 and allow for next-hop targets in peered VPC networks.
Documentation
➡📖 Policy-based routes overview
➡ 📖 Create and use policy-based routes
👉🏽To see all GA and previews updates: Checkout out release notes
June — 2025 ☀️☀️
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#️⃣ 1 — VPC Flow Logs: RDMA Traffic Annotation: Gain visibility into high-performance AI/ML workloads by analyzing RDMA traffic from A3 Mega VMs.
Documentation
➡ 📖 VPC Flow Logs record format
#️⃣ 2— Part I — RoCEv2 for optimized GPU AI workloads on Google Cloud : (1) Why it matters? This deep-dive, explores RoCEv2, for Gpu to GPU communication on Google’s AI compute instance A3 ultra, A4 and A4X VM.
Blog from me 😀
➡✍🏽https://medium.com/google-cloud/part-i-rocev2-for-optimized-gpu-ai-workloads-on-google-cloud-1-why-it-matters-37412afc57e1
#️⃣ 3 — Google Cloud Networking 101: Quick Reference Guide Updated on June 30, this guide is a one-stop shop for core Google Cloud networking concepts, including a new section on “Networking for AI” that defines key terms like RDMA and RoCE.
Blog from me 😀
➡ ✍🏽 https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/google-cloud-networking-101-quick-reference-guide
#️⃣ 4— What’s new in cross cloud network security This session from the June 2025 Google Cloud Security Talks event features product managers Tracy Jiang and Lihi Shadmi discussing the latest innovations in network threat protection, security posture controls, and integrating third-party security services.
Video
➡ ⏩ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQlPxLhvAc&t=1s
👉🏽To see all GA and previews updates: Checkout out release notes
May — 2025 🌸🌸
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#️⃣ 1 — Secure Web Proxy with Private Service Connect: Centrally manage and secure egress traffic for multiple VPC networks by publishing a Secure Web Proxy instance as a private, consumable service.
Documentation
➡ 📖 https://cloud.google.com/secure-web-proxy/docs/deploy-service-attachment
#️⃣ 2 — VPC Internal Ranges: IPv6 and Immutability: Enhance your IP Address Management (IPAM) with support for reserving internal IPv6 ranges and creating immutable reservations.
Documentation
➡ 📖 Internal ranges overview — The main documentation page for the Internal Ranges feature.
#️⃣ 3 — Cloud CDN Enhancements: Improve content delivery with new GA features for content targeting and cache invalidation.
👉🏽To see all GA and previews updates: Checkout out release notes
April — 2025 🌱🌱
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#️⃣ 1 — Cloud WAN: Connect your sites securely across Google global network
Documentation
➡ Solution Brief 📖 https://google.smh.re/4sZ9
➡ Solution Deep Dive 📖 https://google.smh.re/4t7q
Blog
➡ ✍🏽https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/connect-globally-with-cloud-wan-for-the-ai-era
➡ ✍🏽 Google Cloud WAN — 5 + resources all Cloud Architects should check out
YouTube Playlist
➡ 📺 https://google.smh.re/4syj
#️⃣ 2 — Cross-Site Interconnect (part of Cloud WAN)
➡ Google YT demo Cross-Site Interconnect ⏩ https://google.smh.re/4q_Q
➡Documentation 📖 https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/interconnect/concepts/cross-site-overview
#️⃣ 3— NCC (and Cloud WAN)
➡ Google YT demo ⏩ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95r4kchExIA
➡Blog✍🏽 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/ncc-gateway-for-cloud-wan-helps-secure-network-access/
#️⃣ 4— Google’s Global Network: Get updated on the network capabilities in the age of AI
Google Cloud YouTube
➡GGN: technology foundations for scalability & resilience⏩ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSq7UP2N3E
➡Autonomous Network Operations ⏩ https://youtu.be/mNjysmJNmlw
➡Multi-shard network and Protective ReRoute ⏩ https://youtu.be/UHfOfPGk_PY
Blog
➡Diving into the technology behind Google’s AI-era global network ⏩ https://google.smh.re/4smS
March — 2025 ☃️☃️
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#️⃣ 1 — Cloud DNS : Cloud DNS Routing policies with Internet Health Checks
Documentation
➡ https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/routing-policies-overview#health-checks-internet
#️⃣ 2 — Blogs (must read)
➡ Using RDMA over Converged Ethernet networking for AI on Google Cloud (https://google.smh.re/4nNI)
➡ Private Service Connect for googleapis.com including Bigquery and Storage endpoints — GCP
#️⃣ 3 — Apigee networking: DNS peering allows Apigee runtime to resolve customer private domains
➡ Documents : https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/get-started/networking-options
#️⃣ 4 — Direct VPC egress improvements — Cloud run and Direct VPC egress
Documentation ➡ https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/vpc-direct-vpc#ip-consumption-services
#️⃣ 5 — NCC: More site to site locations.
Documentation ➡https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/network-connectivity-center/concepts/locations
#️⃣ 6 — IPv6 — IPv6 static routes next-hop ILB and next-hop
Documentation ➡ https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/static-routes#static-route-next-hops
#️⃣7-PSC and Cloud Run - Codelab for hands-on practice
Lab ➡ https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cloudnet-psc-cloudrun
👉🏽To see all GA and previews updates: Checkout out release notes
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February — 2025 ☃️☃️
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#️⃣ 1 — Cross-Cloud Network inter-VPC connectivity using Network Connectivity Center : Architecture Guide
Document - (https://cloud.google.com/architecture/ccn-distributed-apps-design/ccn-ncc-vpn-ra)
#️⃣ 2 — Blogs
➡ Networking support for AI workloads (https://google.smh.re/4hdl)
➡ Inter-network communication design with ncc or vpc peering (https://google.smh.re/4kDi)
➡ Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/new-a4x-vms-powered-by-nvidia-gb200-gpus/?e=48754805)
#️⃣ 3— Private service connect:
➡ Accessing supported global Google APIs through Private Service Connect backends (https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/private-service-connect-backends#global-google-apis)
➡ Private Service Connect monitoring metrics (https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/monitor-private-service-connect-connections)
#️⃣ 4— Flow Analyzer — Flow Analyzer lets you quickly and efficiently understand your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) traffic flows without the need to write complex SQL queries for analyzing VPC Flow Logs
Documentation ➡ https://cloud.google.com/network-intelligence-center/docs/flow-analyzer/overview
#️⃣ 5— NCC:
➡ Producer VPC Spokes If you have a VPC network that consumes a service offered through private services access, you can use a Network Connectivity Center producer VPC spoke to make the service reachable by other spokes on a hub.
Documentation https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/network-connectivity-center/concepts/producer-vpc-spokes-overview
➡ Private Service Connect connection propagation Connection propagation through the Network Connectivity Center hub provides access to Private Service Connect endpoints from other VPC networks.
Documentation https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/network-connectivity-center/concepts/psc-propagated-connection-overview
#️⃣ 6— Cloud DNS— Health check for external endpoints
Documentation ➡ https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/routing-policies-overview#health-checks-internet
👉🏽To see all GA and previews updates: Checkout out release notes
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January — 2025 ☃️☃️
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#️⃣ 1 — RDMA — Yes it’s here RDMA for your AI workloads, A3 ultra VM.🥳
Docs —
Network profiles for specific use cases: (https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/network-profiles)
RDMA network profile (https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/rdma-network-profiles)
#️⃣ 2— Private Service Connect feature— you can include the producer port in the backend configuration.
Docs — https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/about-vpc-hosted-services#producer-ports
#️⃣ 3— Codelab from me 😎. Enable PSC on existing MySQL DB which has service networking. Build in your own environment.
Lab Link —https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/psc-psa-cloudsql-terraform
#️⃣ 4— Hybrid NEG controller for Kubernetes.
Documentation — https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/cloud-solutions/k8s-hybrid-neg-controller/
#️⃣ 5— Dedicated Interconnect — single 100 Gbps attachments available.
Docs — https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/interconnect/quotas#limits
#️⃣ 6— GKE —User-managed firewall rules for GKE LoadBalancer Services.
Docs — https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/user-managed-firewall-rules
Others:
. Private Service Connect endpoints for regional Google APIs can be configured with IPv6 addresses
👉🏽To see all GA and previews updates: Checkout out release notes
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See from end of ‘24
Check out the previous 2024 Blog : Networking in Google Cloud — Things to check out to catch up -’24 edition (monthly updates)
Resources
📺Advanced networking demos YouTube https://goo.gle/AdvancedNetworking
📐Architecture Center updates
Doc updates — https://cloud.google.com/architecture/release-notes
📚Networking Architecture doc sets (vital info)
Four part doc set updated 2025
- #1 — Designing networks for migrating enterprise workloads: Architectural approaches (https://cloud.google.com/architecture/network-architecture)
- #2 — Networking for secure intra-cloud access: Reference architectures (https://cloud.google.com/architecture/network-secure-intra-cloud-access)
- #3 — Networking for internet-facing application delivery: Reference architectures (https://cloud.google.com/architecture/network-application-delivery)
- #4 — Networking for hybrid and multi-cloud workloads: Reference architectures (https://cloud.google.com/architecture/network-hybrid-multicloud)
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