I know people are saying this is just like Cloudflare, but there might be some real value differentiation here. Google has been doing some really advanced things in this area for a long time. I think I saw a research paper or talk from 5-10 years ago about how Google shows the impact of network policies before applying them, I just searched for it and couldn't find it[1]. The things like <i>Preview Mode</i> and <i>Rich Rules Language</i> could be very advanced.<p>[1] But I did find this page about their network research: <a href="https://research.google.com/teams/netsys/" rel="nofollow">https://research.google.com/teams/netsys/</a>
Interesting - given Cloudflare's real value proposition and domination of their sector, I've been half expecting Google to buy them for a year now.<p>Google are very good at internet plumbing, and I expect this to be a pretty compelling service. Serious competition and not being an acquisition target any more must have really hurt Cloudflare's value today.
Many people don't realize that Cloudflare also received funding from Google: <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-raised-110m-from-fidelity-google-microsoft-baidu-and-qualcomm/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-raised-110m-from-fidelity...</a> it seems cheaper to include it in Google Cloud than buying the company.
This is great news. Cloudflare is way too expensive. Pricing seems reasonable<p>Policy Charge $5 per Cloud Armor policy per month
Per Rule Charge $1 per rule per policy per month
Incoming Requests Charge $0.75 per million HTTP(S) requests
Here's a comparison of Google Armor vs. AWS WAF vs. CloudFlare: <a href="https://www.chooseacloud.com/waf" rel="nofollow">https://www.chooseacloud.com/waf</a>
How does it compare to its Azure counterpart? (<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/ddos-protection/" rel="nofollow">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/ddos-protection/</a>)
I'm trying to enable Cloud Armor to play around with it, but it just looks like a firewall. I don't see a simple way to just "turn it on" - it looks like you have to create an IP address-based policy. It's unclear to me whether there is any kind of adaptive DDOS protection.
Many, many years ago, a new product or service announcement from Google would leave me interested and excited. Now I just shrug and wonder when it will be abandoned.