Question

A retail company needs to connect its on-premises data center to Google Cloud with a private, dedicated connection. Their bandwidth requirement is approximately 5 Gbps, and they do not have equipment colocated in any Google-supported colocation facility. They want a private connection (not over the public internet) with a supported SLA and the ability to scale bandwidth incrementally in the future. Which hybrid connectivity option should the network engineer recommend?

Accepted Answer

Partner Interconnect through a supported service provider, provisioning VLAN attachments sized to the required capacity

Answer

Dedicated Interconnect with a single 10 Gbps circuit terminated in a Google colocation facility

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HA VPN with multiple tunnels aggregated via ECMP to reach 5 Gbps

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Direct Peering to establish private routes into the company's VPC