What is Data Transfer Essentials?
According to the documentation, Data Transfer Essentials offers a cost-effective way to move data between the services of an application that resides across multiple cloud service providers, while adhering to regulatory requirements. It targets traffic within the same organization between two services on different cloud platforms connected over the public internet.
Core Features
- Cost-optimized data transfer between services of the same organization across provider boundaries
- One configuration resource per region and project
- Specification of external IP addresses and destination cloud service providers via recognized ASNs
- Restricted to the services, network tiers and regions Google supports
- Validation mechanisms: invalid IP prefixes are suspended, and Google reserves auditing rights over the specified destinations
Typical Use Cases
Distributed multi-cloud architecture: Components of an application run at different cloud providers and exchange data regularly.
Regulatory requirements: Cross-provider data transfer is configured according to the documented guidance and kept auditable.
Egress cost control: Intra-organization traffic is handled through the dedicated configuration rather than regular internet egress.
Benefits
- Clearly bounded scope for intra-organization multi-cloud traffic
- Currently offered at no charge when used per documentation guidance
- Configurable per region and project, and therefore precisely controllable
- Defined fallback: non-qualifying traffic is billed at standard rates
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud Partner, innFactory supports you with Data Transfer Essentials: checking the prerequisites for your multi-cloud architecture, creating and maintaining the configuration resources, and separating qualifying traffic from traffic billed at standard rates.
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Data Transfer Essentials?
According to the documentation, Data Transfer Essentials offers a cost-effective way to move data between the services of an application that resides across multiple CSPs, while adhering to regulatory requirements.
Which traffic is in scope?
Intra-organization traffic between two services on different cloud platforms connected over the public internet. Applications serving end users on other cloud providers are explicitly excluded and use standard network pricing.
What does Data Transfer Essentials cost?
According to the documentation, the service is currently offered at no charge when used per documentation guidance. Google reserves the right to make it a paid service, with advance notice via Mandatory Service Announcements.
What is required to use it?
According to the documentation: create a configuration resource per region per project, include only supported services, specify external IP addresses and destination cloud service providers with recognized ASNs, and maintain compliance with the intra-organization usage criteria.
What happens with invalid entries?
Invalid IP prefixes get marked as suspended and traffic to them reverts to standard internet billing. Google Cloud reserves auditing rights to validate destinations as legitimate intra-organization endpoints.
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