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 Trusted Cloud 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 Trusted Cloud 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 Trusted Cloud. We also recommend reviewing the general differences between Trusted Cloud and Google Cloud.
If you would like to use a particular Cloud NGFW feature that isn't currently available in Trusted Cloud, contact Trusted Cloud support. To be notified when new features roll out in Trusted Cloud, subscribe to the release notes.
Firewall tiers
| Firewall tiers | The following tiers of Cloud NGFW are available in Trusted Cloud by S3NS:
Cloud NGFW Enterprise is unavailable. |
Availability and disaster recovery
| Regions and zones | Trusted Cloud 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 Trusted Cloud by S3NS:
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Other cross-product integrations
| Google Cloud Armor | Available |
| App Engine | Available |
| Filestore | Available |
Related guides
The following information might also affect how you use and design for Cloud NGFW in Trusted Cloud by S3NS. These guides include general information about working in Trusted Cloud, including documentation, security and access control, billing, tooling, and service usage.
For details about other services and features in Trusted Cloud and their differences from their Google Cloud counterparts, see the product list.