Your team must link Google Cloud to workloads running in AWS over dedicated, high-throughput private links, and you want Google to manage the cross-provider connection rather than sending traffic over the internet. What should you deploy?
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Answer: C
Cross-Cloud Interconnect provides dedicated, high-bandwidth private connections between Google Cloud and other major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud. Google provisions the connection to the partner cloud, which avoids routing traffic over the public internet. Performance is more predictable than VPN, which uses shared internet paths and has per-tunnel limits. HA VPN to another cloud works over the internet with encryption overhead. Direct Peering and Partner Interconnect target internet services and on-premises or service-provider connectivity rather than cross-cloud links.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. HA VPN can connect to another cloud's gateway, but tunnels traverse the internet and each has bandwidth limits, so it does not provide dedicated capacity.
- B. Direct Peering connects to Google's edge to reach Google services. It is not a dedicated private link between Google Cloud and another cloud provider.
- D. Partner Interconnect reaches Google through a service provider from on-premises or other networks. It is not the product designed for cross-cloud links.