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What is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, and what problem is it built to solve?

Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy is used to verify users and control their access to applications and cloud resources. It provides a centralized way to protect those resources, including for remote access without relying on a traditional VPN.

What company sizes and industries is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy the best fit for?

Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy appears across small businesses, mid-market organizations, and enterprises, with small businesses especially prominent. The industries represented most clearly include:
  • Company size — Small business: A prominent segment, including teams using it to secure applications and cloud resources.
  • Company size — Mid-market and enterprise: Both segments use it for centralized access control and remote access.
  • Industry — Information technology and computer software: These fields are especially visible, often in cloud application and infrastructure use cases.
  • Industry — Banking: Teams use it to manage access to applications and resources.

What customer support options does Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy’s support experience comes across as mixed: some users describe technical help as effective and available, while overall support experiences vary. No specific support channels are identified here.

What features or capabilities could make Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy even more useful?

The most useful improvements would make the product easier to adopt and more flexible to connect with existing environments. Recurring requests include:
  • Smoother onboarding: Make setup and configuration easier to understand, especially for first-time users.
  • Clearer guidance: Expand practical documentation and training with intuitive explanations and use cases.
  • Broader integrations: Connect more readily with third-party services and resources outside Google Cloud.
  • More control and visibility: Improve customization and add more flexible reporting and notification options.

Is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy considered safe and secure for handling data?

Users describe Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy as an additional layer of protection that verifies identity and controls who can reach applications, virtual machines, and other cloud resources. They value centralized and granular access policies, including for people connecting remotely or from untrusted networks; safe deployment still depends on configuring access appropriately.

Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy Reviews (55)

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Ireneusz W.
IW
Ireneusz W.
Director of Product Development
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ideal Free Tier for PoCs and MVPs with a Clean, Straightforward UI"
5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

The free tier is ideal for small PoCs and even an MVP. You can also use it as an extra security layer to access your app or VM. The UI feels clean and straightforward because there aren’t too many options, yet customization and configuration are still there when you need them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Customization is limited to the paid tiers, and only one of those tiers feels genuinely worthwhile. There are also restrictions on what the product integrates with, and some services I expected to see are still missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wendy D.
WD
Wendy D.
Policy Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 11/8/2022
"Policy Specialist"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Using this software in the last couple of years; has allowed our department to narrow down the access of specific individuals that can and can't access information or apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

I've not had any issues disliking this product since using it. The price is probably the only downfall of it. Yes, you get to try it for free but it is costly but worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhargav N.
BN
Bhargav N.
Software Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 11/8/2022
"Simple authentication layer for internal Google Cloud resources"
5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Google Cloud IAP has helped us remove the networking complexity of a VPN and here are some of the other things that I like best

- It's absolutely free to use which would otherwise cost a lot more to configure and use. For example, Auth0 and Okta, also can't be used for internal google resources without a VPN

- Dead simple configuration and maintenance

- Zero user management by leveraging google accounts

- Authorization is a breeze for fine-grained user-level access to the resources

- Support for SSO applications and SAML

What not to like :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

FWIW, by design, IAP works best for resources within Google Cloud and if need be, we need to use some proxy services if we want to use internal resources that are not hosted on Google Cloud. It's about time Google builds a simple proxy around IAP to add and use resources that are not within the Google Cloud. There are connectors that can work with Cloud VPN but it's way too complex and can be simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EF
Eleanor F.
Laboratory Technician/Equipment Officer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Identity-Aware Proxy - The best way to secure remote experiments"
5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Google Identity-Aware Proxy was invaluable for our networking endeavours to bring all our experiments into remote working during covid. The security afforded by this allows us to network our research for easy remote access, thus keeping our staff safe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

The setup and adoption of GIACP was difficult during covid, but we explained the benefits to our staff and soon they were on board with the rest of us! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul S.
RS
Rahul S.
Technical Architect
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Originally submitted 11/3/2022
"Great substitution for VPNs"
5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

We love how IAP eliminates the need for a VPN and is widely used in many of our internal tools and apps. It also has an excellent reputation since Google uses IAP instead of VPNs which can be a bit cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Setting up IAP takes time, and automating it takes even longer (granted that setting up a VPN would take longer). IAP requires a lot of additional components and needs more configurations when setting it up across multiple solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nirav D.
ND
Nirav D.
Senior Lead Engineer, WAN Engineering
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Secure application control"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Google Identity aware proxy or IAP is best in market to secure unauthorised access to application either hosted on cloud or on premise. GCP intelligently have a different module of IAP which takes care of authorised users only by making inspection to deliver technology edge security level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

IAP is offered as a different service which is not part of GCP bundle or one solution which makes it difficult to procure on cost basis at times. Sometimes on VMs user authentication is inaccurate but free trial is available to run tests before deployment or taking paid services before production which is a plus point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vibhash K.
VK
Vibhash K.
OpenShift Administrator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best way to manage the application access in GKE & Compute Engine."
5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

It provides access control on our cloud-based & on-premise-based Applications & VMs running in the Google Cloud environment. It provides RBAC features to manage the authentication & authorization of data access by verification of the User's identity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Currently, I don't see anything that I could consider as dislike in this application so I could say there is no dislike in this if we are using Google Cloud Environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddhant J.
SJ
Siddhant J.
Cloud AI/ML Performance/SRE Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best security option to protect the application and Cloud resources"
5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

I have been working on GCP for couple of years now and all the critical applications are hosted here. With IAP, we have complete security protection across our applications and cloud resources starting from user access, private VMs etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Honestly our platform and security team have using this for quite some time as our entire workload is on GCP.On the pricing side, I feel it can be little more flexible , otherwise the features it offer keep your platform secured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Issac P.
IP
Issac P.
Automation Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The best cloud based solution to grant access to Virtual machines hosted on google cloud"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Google Cloud proxy provides a single point of control to check users working on the cloud resources such as VM

Easy to use and check if any unauthorized users are accessing the VM and it easy to revoke or grant access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

Not easy to use for a first time user. Need to go through the documentation in detail to understand the functionality and features.

A more user friendly Interface would be more easier to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

moinuddeen s.
MS
moinuddeen s.
Senior Data Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Ease of access control of VMs through Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy"
4/5
What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

The most important quality is the time consumption; it's so much faster to get secure access to the apps than it takes to set up a VPN. It has better granular access control policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy?

One thing that probably could improve is the cost for some of the paid features of BeyondCorp. Apart from that, in terms of functionality, I don't think there's anything specific to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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