--- title: Google Cloud NAT Reviews meta_title: 'Google Cloud NAT Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 10 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Cloud NAT works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 10 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-10' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Google Cloud NAT Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Other IT Infrastructure Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-it-infrastructure) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About Google Cloud NAT Just because an application is running in the cloud, doesn’t mean you want it to be accessible to the outside world. Cloud NAT, Google Cloud’s managed Network Address Translation service, enables you to provision your application instances without public IP addresses while also allowing them to access the internet — for updates, patching, config management, and more — in a controlled and efficient manner. ## Google Cloud NAT Reviews ### 1. Cost reduction using Cloud NATs for your compute enginers, k8s VMs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhanush R. | Customer Success Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** It reduces cost by assigning nat IP address to the VMs, and also since your compte engine does not have a public IP address attached, it is more secured. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** NATs does not support inbound connections, hence any services needs to be accessible over the public will be problematic. **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since cloud acts as a Managed servies, which eliminates the manual config and maintence of NAT gateways. since GCP offering this, it is cloud adoptable :) Security : since private IP address is hidden. ### 2. NAT IP's to your private servers and clusters || Secure your network **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhanush R. | Data Platform Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** Setting up Google cloud NAT is easy. It hides your private servers, by assigning NAT to them, which adds layer of security to your infra. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** No drawback as such, since Google cloud is well known, cost may be bit on a higher side. **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solving NAT gateway maintenance, which is reducing operational complexity. It is solving high traffic over the application by readily giving the NAT IP's which is scalable at enterprise level. ### 3. Best Free Native tool provided by google **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal G. | Wintel Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** Best Native cloud tool to use the application without public IP address and easy to setup. Best part of this tool is that the support service is available for 24*7 . It is a cloud best platform where we can easily setup a public based application in low cost. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** There is so any dislike points about this platform but only sometimes faced packet dropped issue. **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to setup the application without use of public IP address and easy to communicate on this platform.It helps to reduce the cost in comparison of other platforms that are providing same services. ### 4. GCP Network Address Translation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Technical Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** Pricing is cheap and relatively easy to setup. If you want non public VMs but still should be able to connect to the public internet, NAT is the way to go! **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** Should have an option to setup a NAT along with a private Compute Engine Instance **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connect private VMs (no public IPs) to the public internet. This is required for non-private internet usage in VMs siuch as downlaoding packages from the internet. ### 5. great services to connect VPC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Camilo M. | Sysadmin, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** What has helped me the most is connecting the VPCs **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** I haven't been bothered by anything so far. **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud Run instances through Serverless VPC Access ### 6. Easy and Simple way of securing App hosted on Cloud. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ananthakrishna A. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** * Best part is it does not decrease the bandwidth since it is independent and maintained by Google. * Cloud NAT does not depend on any of our VMs. It runs on physical machines that run our VMs. * Automatic scaling based on NAT IP address count. * Individual VMs do not need external IP addresses to access the internet for updates. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** * First off, the price of the NAT gateway is determined hourly based on how many VM instances use it. The maximum number of VM instances can be used in an hour is 32. * Gateways that serve more instances than specified are also charged at the highest hourly cost. **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** * A few advantages of Google Cloud NAT include easier networking, more security, and cost savings. * Organizations can streamline their networking setup and eliminate the need for intricate firewall rules by adopting Cloud NAT. ### 7. Cloud NAT is secure way to reach internet **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhil G. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** Allow VMs to get data without using its public IP. Also it is scalable service by GCP **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** Sometime packet drops can be noticed if it is not configured correctly **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows my instance in a private subnet to reach internet without using public IP ### 8. Cloud Nat: tool to reach internet privately **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh K. | Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** It allows private instances to reach internet. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** Sometime complex to setup. And packet drop can be noticed it misconfigured **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowed instances in private network to reach internet ### 9. Google NAT **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Beaton M. | Creative Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** it gives you a way to protect your cloud resources by giving them a virtual private cloud an so they are not accessible to public IP Addresses **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** initial settin up takes a bit of learning curve for one tobe fully able to use it but for tech savvy developers it should be straight forward **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** securing our cloud because simply that something is on cloud doesn't mean that everyone should have access to it and Google Cloud NAT has the virtual cloud service which one can use to test and develop almost any environment and share and test out with peer developers but not giving general access to all and sundry ### 10. Google Cloud NAT - Mumba Chewe Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chewe M. | Qualified Alison (E-Learning) Publisher (QAP) - Level 1, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Google Cloud NAT?** I like the efficiency at which the software can be used to upload and transfre data documents. It can also be easily integrate with other office packages. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud NAT?** This software can be problematic in terms of access particularly for basic users. It seems not to allow operation offline as this can help serve costs on internet access. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud NAT:** I have gained much experience in learning and integrating its features and usefulness while sharing information with others. This has helped me in my research endeavours particularly in the academic realms and transfer of documents in my projects. I implore others to try it and see ts magnificence. I commend it for small scale enterprises in the IT and research industries of developing States in Africa. I mean, why not try it? **What problems is Google Cloud NAT solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problem at the moment. However, I am gaining much experience in learning and integrating its features and usefulness while sharing information with others. This has helped me in my research endeavours particularly in the academic realms. ## Google Cloud NAT Discussions - [What can I do to access on a free (or long term trial) home-based software? How do I access this software for my home use? 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