Google Cloud Armor

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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;netsys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google.com&#x2F;teams&#x2F;netsys&#x2F;</a>

Interesting - given Cloudflare&#x27;s real value proposition and domination of their sector, I&#x27;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&#x27;s value today.

Not a huge fan of Google getting more control over the net. On the bright side, Cloudflare getting a serious competitor is good.

Many people don&#x27;t realize that Cloudflare also received funding from Google: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;why-we-raised-110m-from-fidelity-google-microsoft-baidu-and-qualcomm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;why-we-raised-110m-from-fidelity...</a> it seems cheaper to include it in Google Cloud than buying the company.

This would be a lot easier to use if Google added auto-https to their http load balancers. They already offer it for AppEngine custom domains.

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&#x27;s a comparison of Google Armor vs. AWS WAF vs. CloudFlare: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chooseacloud.com&#x2F;waf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chooseacloud.com&#x2F;waf</a>

How does it compare to its Azure counterpart? (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-in&#x2F;services&#x2F;ddos-protection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-in&#x2F;services&#x2F;ddos-protection&#x2F;</a>)

Kubernetes doesn&#x27;t support multi-region load balancing with GSLB yet.

I&#x27;m trying to enable Cloud Armor to play around with it, but it just looks like a firewall. I don&#x27;t see a simple way to just &quot;turn it on&quot; - it looks like you have to create an IP address-based policy. It&#x27;s unclear to me whether there is any kind of adaptive DDOS protection.

Honestly thought this was an early April fool&#x27;s joke base on the headline alone.

Nice. Cloudflare has had no competition for too long.

Is GCA able to cache responses with proper cache headers or does it pass through everything without caching?

Is it true that sites routed via Cloudflare are blocked in certain countries like China? Would this work better?

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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.

Wasn&#x27;t it Google that uncovered Cloud Bleed? Think Google solution is going to be more secure then something from Cloudflare.