Cloud

Cloud networking

Terms

7 terms

  • Cloud load balancer

    A cloud load balancer is a managed networking service that distributes client traffic across healthy backend targets inside a cloud network.

  • Cloud NAT

    Cloud NAT is a managed network address translation service that lets private cloud resources reach the internet without accepting inbound connections.

  • Internet gateway

    An internet gateway is a managed cloud networking component that connects a virtual private cloud to the public internet for inbound and outbound traffic.

  • Private endpoint

    A private endpoint in cloud networking is a network interface with a private IP address that connects a virtual network privately to a managed service.

  • Security group

    A security group is a stateful virtual firewall in cloud networking that allows or blocks traffic to instances by protocol, port and source or destination.

  • VPC

    A VPC, or virtual private cloud, is a logically isolated network in a public cloud where you control IP ranges, subnets, routing and traffic rules.

  • VPC flow logs

    VPC flow logs record metadata about IP traffic in a cloud virtual network, such as addresses, ports, bytes and accept or reject decisions.