Cloud NGFW in Cloud de Confiance versus Google Cloud

Cloud Next Generation Firewall is a fully distributed firewall service with advanced protection capabilities, micro-segmentation, and pervasive coverage to protect your workloads from internal and external attacks. Cloud NGFW provides a stateful, fully distributed host-based enforcement on each workload to enable zero-trust security architecture. This page describes the differences between the Cloud de Confiance and Google Cloud versions of Cloud NGFW.

For more detailed information about Cloud NGFW, see the Cloud NGFW overview and the rest of the Cloud NGFW documentation.

Key differences

There are some differences between the Cloud de Confiance version of Cloud NGFW and the Google Cloud version. If you are already familiar with Google Cloud, we recommend that you review these differences carefully, particularly before designing an application to run on Cloud de Confiance. We also recommend reviewing the general differences between Cloud de Confiance and Google Cloud.

If you would like to use a particular Cloud NGFW feature that isn't currently available in Cloud de Confiance, contact Cloud de Confiance support. To be notified when new features roll out in Cloud de Confiance, subscribe to the release notes. Unless otherwise specified, features that are in preview are not available in Cloud de Confiance.

Firewall tiers

Firewall tiers

The following tiers of Cloud NGFW are available in Cloud de Confiance by S3NS:

  • Cloud Next Generation Firewall Essentials
  • Cloud Next Generation Firewall Standard

Cloud NGFW Enterprise is unavailable.

Availability and disaster recovery

Regions and zones Cloud de Confiance by S3NS has only a single region, though with multiple zones. Multi-region features and cross-region failover are unavailable.

Firewall features

Security profiles Unavailable
Security profile groups Unavailable
Firewall endpoints Unavailable

Security and access control

Security features

The following security features are unavailable in Cloud de Confiance by S3NS:

  • Threat intelligence
  • Threat signature
  • Intrusion prevention
  • Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection

Other cross-product integrations

Google Cloud Armor Available
App Engine Available
Filestore Available

The following information might also affect how you use and design for Cloud NGFW in Cloud de Confiance by S3NS. These guides include general information about working in Cloud de Confiance, including documentation, security and access control, billing, tooling, and service usage.

For details about other services and features in Cloud de Confiance and their differences from their Google Cloud counterparts, see the product list.

Cloud de Confiance guides