--- title: Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy Reviews meta\_title: 'Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 55 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 55 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Network Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/network-security --- # Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy but has limited features. Are you part of the Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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[Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Google App Engine ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-app-engine/reviews) Show More ![Ireneusz W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ireneusz W.") IW Ireneusz W. Director of Product Development Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/8/2026 "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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick implementation of an SSO-equivalent protocol with Google Cloud integrated IAM. It’s easy to manage users, even those outside the organisation, in a dedicated place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Wendy D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Wendy D.") WD Wendy D. Policy Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? It allows access for us to contact if needed for assistants. I've not needed anything since using this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/21/2025 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bhargav N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bhargav N.") BN Bhargav N. Software Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? Google Cloud IAP has helped us reduce our network, infrastructure, and associated maintenance costs by providing an inexpensive and convenient method to access internal applications hosted within Google Cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/10/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite EF Eleanor F. Laboratory Technician/Equipment Officer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/30/2023 "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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? Remote working when your precious R&D data is on the line was a security risk we had to take seriously. With GCIAP we were able to remote in with the surety that our work was safe, allowing us to continue sustained growth throughout the pandemic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rahul S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul S.") RS Rahul S. Technical Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? IAP eliminates the needs of a VPN solution which can be expensive and difficult to setup and manager. IAP eliminates that and is a very seamless solution once its properly configured Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/4/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nirav D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nirav D.") ND Nirav D. Senior Lead Engineer, WAN Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/12/2022 "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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? Google Cloud Identity Aware Proxy is widely used to protect from unauthorised web user traffic coming towards Application or VMs on cloud or on premises which helps secure the network from cloud attacks or spoof attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vibhash K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vibhash K.") VK Vibhash K. OpenShift Administrator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/4/2022 "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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us to provide access to data through genuine resources by using RBAC features which assure that only authenticate and authorized resources can access the data. Due to the current situation, our teammates are connected on different personal as well as an official network so it helps to get connected from the unsecured network as well without using VPN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Siddhant J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Siddhant J.") SJ Siddhant J. Cloud AI/ML Performance/SRE Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/3/2022 "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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? At first,we have multiple private VMs whose access is restricted to limited users via IAP.Hence it does not allow SSH access as we use Linux VM. Also for some critical applications, we have IAP that add an authorization layer to the architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite IP Issac P. Automation Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/3/2022 "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. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? Revoking access to unauthorized users is easy as we get immediate notifications if users not on the trusted list try to access the cloud resources such as VM. Easy to track usage of cloud resources which makes provisioning additional VMs in case of load increase easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite KR Kanika R. Project Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/22/2022 "Effective Cloud Platform for VPNs" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy? It helps in verifying user identity and works without the use of a VPN from untrusted networks. It helps in managing the authorization of data access. It is very simple to use especially for remote workers and the best part is that no VPN client is required. It helps in managing user access to applications and cloud resources via a single point of control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy? For beginners, its quite difficult to understand the functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy solving and how is that benefiting you? With this, we can build an architecture with Zero Trust Policy. It helped us update the request headers to add more information about the authenticated user which benefitted us a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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