Question

A retail company is deploying a new branch-to-cloud design to reach workloads hosted in a Google Cloud VPC. The network team must use the existing public internet circuits (no dedicated physical cross-connect is budgeted this quarter), but the design must survive the failure of a single Google-side tunnel endpoint and provide a Google-backed availability SLA. Which internet-based connectivity approach to Google Cloud best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Deploy Google Cloud HA VPN with two tunnels terminating on separate Cloud VPN gateway interfaces, each with its own external IP, using BGP for dynamic failover

Answer

Deploy a single Classic VPN tunnel to the Cloud VPN gateway and rely on static routes for reachability

Answer

Provision a Dedicated Interconnect with two VLAN attachments in different metros

Answer

Configure a Partner Interconnect through a supported service provider with a single VLAN attachment