• Organizations in highly regulated industries often struggle to balance the rigid security of air-gapped environments with the need for the agility and flexibility that the cloud provides. • To address this, Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped 1.15 introduces new networking features in preview that give you more direct control and visibility without compromising your security posture, as well as a new IPAM feature in general availability that simplifies subnet management . • These preview features are Cloud NAT, enhanced connectivity for standard clusters, and advanced HTTP and HTTPS health checks in load balancers. • Together, they make it easier for you to manage complex workloads in a secure environment. • Manage outbound traffic with Cloud NAT Cloud NAT for GDC air-gapped replaces previous egress solutions and gives you more control over how your instances communicate with other networks, on par with public cloud functionality. • Cloud NAT provides several benefits: Configurable egress IPs: You can assign and manage multiple egress IP addresses for your outbound traffic so you can identify exactly which workloads are communicating.
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- Organizations in highly regulated industries often struggle to balance the rigid security of air-gapped environments with the need for the agility and flexibility that the cloud provides. To address this, Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped 1.15 introduces new networking features in preview that give you more direct control and visibility without compromising your security posture, as well as a new IPAM feature in general availability that simplifies subnet management . These preview features are Cloud NAT, enhanced connectivity for standard clusters, and advanced HTTP and HTTPS health c
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