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Partner Interconnect now generally available
Friday, June 15, 2018
By Sankari Venkataraman, Technical Program Manager
We are happy to announce that
Partner Interconnect
, launched in beta in April, is now generally available. Partner Interconnect lets you connect your on-premises resources to
Google Cloud Platform
(GCP) from the partner location of your choice, at a data rate that meets your needs.
With general availability, you can now receive an
SLA
for Partner Interconnect connections if you use one of the
recommended topologies
. If you were a beta user with one of those topologies, you will automatically be covered by the SLA. Charges for the service start with GA (see
pricing
).
Partner Interconnect
is ideal if you want physical connectivity to your GCP resources but cannot connect at one of Google’s
peering locations
, or if you want to connect with an existing
service provider.
If you need help understanding the connection options, the information
here
can help.
In this blog we will walk through how you can start using Partner Interconnect, from choosing a partner that works best for you all the way through how you can deploy and start using your interconnect.
Choosing a partner
If you already have a service provider partner for network connectivity, you can check the
list of supported service providers
to see if they offer Partner Interconnect service. If not, you can select a partner from the list based on your data center location.
Some critical factors to consider are:
Make sure the partner can offer the availability and latency you need between your on-premises network and their network.
Check whether the partner offers Layer 2 connectivity, Layer 3 connectivity, or both. If you choose a Layer 2 Partner, you have to configure and establish a BGP session between your Cloud Routers and on-premises routers for each VLAN attachment that you create. If you choose a Layer 3 partner, they will take care of the BGP configuration.
Please review the recommended topologies for production-level and non-critical applications. Google provides a
99.99%
(with
Global Routing
) or
99.9%
availability SLA, and that only applies to the connectivity between your VPC network and the partner's network.
Bandwidth options and pricing
Partner Interconnect provides flexible options for bandwidth between 50 Mbps and 10 Gbps. Google charges on a monthly basis for VLAN attachments depending on capacity and egress traffic (see
options and pricing
).
Setting up Partner Interconnect VLAN attachments
Once you’ve established network connectivity with a partner, and they have set up interconnects with Google, you can set up and activate VLAN attachments using these steps:
Create VLAN attachments
.
Request provisioning from the partner
.
If you have a Layer 2 partner,
complete the BGP configuration
and then
activate the attachments
for traffic to start. If you have a Layer 3 partner, simply
activate the attachments
, or use the
pre-activation
option.
With Partner Interconnect, you can connect to GCP where and how you want to. Follow these steps to easily access your GCP compute resources from your on-premises network.
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