Cloud Armor
Cloud Armor sits at the edge of Google Cloud’s network, acting as a shield against DDoS floods and application-layer exploits. It filters traffic using a comprehensive set of Web Application Firewall rules, inspecting requests before they reach your backend services. This setup handles the heavy lifting of threat detection and mitigation, ensuring malicious payloads are blocked at the perimeter rather than consuming internal resources.
Teams already operating within the GCP ecosystem will find this integration straightforward for securing public-facing applications. The main friction point is the complete absence of a free tier, meaning every single request incurs a cost starting at $0.7500 per million. For low-traffic prototypes or experimental deployments, this pay-as-you-go model can feel unnecessarily expensive compared to services that offer some initial usage allowance.
- Free tier No
- Starting price from $0.7500 per 1M requests
- Regions 10 · 5 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 13 certifications
- Provider health B
Decision score
Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.
Trust & reach via Google Cloud Platform
- C5
- CSA STAR
- FedRAMP
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
- ISO 9001
- PCI DSS
- SOC 1 Type II
- SOC 2 Type II
- compute99.99%
- database99.95%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.95%
10 regions across 5 continents
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
Pricing tiers 3
| Tier / Plan | Price | Unit | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Requests | $0.7500 | per 1M requests | global |
| Rules | $1.00 | per rule/month | global |
| Security Policy | $5.00 | per policy/month | global |
Prices in USD. Micro-prices are quoted per 1M units; "< $0.000001" marks rates below our stored precision. Subject to change — check the provider's official page.
Alternatives on other providers
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