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Google Cloud Armor

byGoogle
in
4.4
Market Presence: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Cloud Web Application and API Protection

Overview

Product Information on Google Cloud Armor

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Google Cloud Armor?

Google Cloud Armor is a software that helps organizations protect their applications and services from online threats such as distributed denial-of-service attacks, cross-site scripting, and SQL injection. The software offers customizable security policies, access control, and real-time threat detection, enabling users to define rules that filter incoming web requests based on various attributes. It integrates with Google Cloud services and provides adaptive protections using threat intelligence. Google Cloud Armor is designed to support organizations in managing security for their web-based applications and maintaining the availability and integrity of their online resources.

Google Cloud Armor Pricing

Google Cloud Armor is a service that utilizes a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the number of security policies deployed, the number of rules configured, and the amount of data processed. The service may also include additional charges for advanced features such as custom rules or edge security capabilities.

Overall experience with Google Cloud Armor

DATA ANALYST
1B - 3B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Strengthening DDoS Protection with Google Cloud Applications”

5.0
Jan 4, 2025
Provides better DDoS protection on the google cloud applications, comes with WAF rules. Easy to integrate with google cloud load balancer, and compute engine.
Senior Security Engineer
3B - 10B USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Cloud Armor's Merits and Shortcomings in Web Security Issues”

3.0
Dec 2, 2024
Cloud Armor of google is good in terms of the capability of the tool to handle security incidents. For me in my org, I feel this is somewhat ok as it's not that great in handling a few edge cases like web application based attacks. They have a good deal with handling DDoS but still lack a few capabilities in bot detection. Overall it's a good tool but not a great one to go with.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

Company Details

Updated 11th November 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1998
Head office location
Mountain View, CA, United States
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
www.google.com

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Google Cloud Armor Likes & Dislikes

Like

Automatic scaling to handle large traffic with security.

Like

I love the ease of integration mainly with cloud provided by google i.e Google Cloud platform. Also, IP whitelisitng part and attaching backend security policies to backend services using cloud armor policies is good. Few Managed rules to stop web based attacks and DDoS attacks are pretty good to use.

Like

If offers great scalability to handle massive traffic loads and its traffic management feature allows us to fine-tune our DDoS protection measures, set custom traffic thresholds and configure automatic traffic diversion. It is highly reliable at blocking IPs outside of the range we have specified and the performance is great.

Dislike

The pricing model is bit complicated, and initial setup is complex and less documentation is available on the issues faced.

Dislike

I disliked the product's overall capability and strength. Service is bad from GCP compared to other vendors. Not keeping up with the latest cyber security trends. Ease of use is bad and a glitch UI to handle things are the things I disliked.

Dislike

Documentation is the only thing where I feel it is a bit lacking, it can be further improved to offer multiple resources that guide users better on the use of its advanced features.

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Google Cloud Armor Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(63 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
52%
4 Star
37%
3 Star
11%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Evaluation & Contracting

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4.6

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4.5

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  • DATA ANALYST
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Strengthening DDoS Protection with Google Cloud Applications

    5.0
    Jan 4, 2025
    Provides better DDoS protection on the google cloud applications, comes with WAF rules. Easy to integrate with google cloud load balancer, and compute engine.
  • Senior Security Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Cloud Armor's Merits and Shortcomings in Web Security Issues

    3.0
    Dec 2, 2024
    Cloud Armor of google is good in terms of the capability of the tool to handle security incidents. For me in my org, I feel this is somewhat ok as it's not that great in handling a few edge cases like web application based attacks. They have a good deal with handling DDoS but still lack a few capabilities in bot detection. Overall it's a good tool but not a great one to go with.
  • APPLICATION ENGINEER
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Straightforward to setup, easy to integrate DDoS mitigation and traffic control platform

    5.0
    Sep 27, 2024
    The platform provides detailed, easy to understand reports and analytics on DDoS attack trends, enabling us to understand the threats we face and make informed security decisions. They provide efficient and friendly customer support ensuring that any questions we have are handled promptly.
  • Security Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Google + WAF = Surprisingly Good

    4.0
    May 16, 2024
    The WAF is easy to implement and maintain. The adaptive protection rule recommendations are iffy at times, but still useful.
  • CYBER DEFENCE ANALYST
    1B-10B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Improving Security with Google Cloud Armor

    5.0
    Feb 9, 2024
    My experience with Google Cloud Armor is just awesome. I started implementing the cloud armor policies to all my backend services which works awesome in protecting my backend servcies from external attacks. The configuration support mainly the threat intelligence support of Cloud armor of GCP is so good and helps us in blocking Malicious IP's and tor exit node IP's. This GCP service is well versed in maintaining upto date Threat intel and clean configurations as well. I really liked this product.
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