# Google Cloud Traffic Director Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Service Mesh Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/service-mesh-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 6 ## About Google Cloud Traffic Director Service mesh is a powerful abstraction that's become increasingly popular to deliver microservices and modern applications. In a service mesh, the service mesh data plane, with service proxies like Envoy, moves the traffic around and the service mesh control plane provides policy, configuration, and intelligence to these service proxies. Traffic Director is GCP's fully managed traffic control plane for service mesh. With Traffic Director, easily deploy global load balancing across clusters and VM instances in multiple regions, offload health checking from service proxies, and configure sophisticated traffic control policies. ## Google Cloud Traffic Director Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **smoother user interface** of Google Cloud Traffic Director, enhancing their overall experience with the platform. (1 reviews) ## Google Cloud Traffic Director Reviews ### 1. Good **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George M. | Salesforce Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** It works as expected. The platform is smooth with the UI **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** Nothing as bad as other platforms. Works really good **What problems is Google Cloud Traffic Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** In understanding the cloud traffic and the amusing features ### 2. Best service mesh in the market. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddhant S. | Manager, Customer Success, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** Its so easy to use along with the flawless interface that makes it the right choice for our team **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** No cons as such at the moment. Google doesn't fail to amaze us with its features and updated technology **What problems is Google Cloud Traffic Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us perform load balancing and testing for our multiple applications and newly launched products. The traffic management makes it very easy for us testing across multiple regions and geographies ### 3. Everything you need to save is always secure with Google! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego S. | Live Operations assistant member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** First of all the capacity and Space that have to save every file we need and the chance that is very easy to access so at any time we can be able to get that document that we are searching for **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** Nothing at all. maybe that after you get an specific amount of space, Google puts a lot of remembers to buy some more space even though you have not reached the limit yet **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Traffic Director:** None at all, the Google service is very good and is a good way to keep all your personal information **What problems is Google Cloud Traffic Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** At every time i need to save an important file and i will switch devices or if a need a better place to save important work files i can use the Google Cloud since i can have access at any time and at any device, doesn't matter if it is from the work or my personal device. ### 4. Traffic Director Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Costel C. | Customer Suppor Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** The beast feature is the automatic updater which lets you safely deploy new versions of software to instances in your MIG and supports a flexible range of rollout scenarios, such as rolling updates and canary updates. You can control the speed and scope of deployment as well as the level of disruption to your service. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** Google’s resilient systems, allowing you to scale health checks for deployments of all sizes because it is not like how they advertised it. **What problems is Google Cloud Traffic Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sophisticated traffic management, if there is a problem, paging and 99.9 uptime. G could director is breaking down our geographical barriers and work together quickly, from anywhere ### 5. Decent tool for traffic management for open service mesh **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** It has a very comprehensive traffic management capabilities.It is easy to implement and deploy load balancing across different instances and servers. It also guarantees an Uptime with SLA commitment. It works with containerized applications and kubernetes as well. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** It doesn't support content chaching and SSL offload. **What problems is Google Cloud Traffic Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easy to manage growth in a microservice architecture and scale easily with the demand. It saves a lot of time required for multiple deployments across different clusters and instances. You can also configure traffic control rules with clicks of a button. ### 6. It brings global traffic management to your VM and container services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** One of the best tool if you work on a Cloud network because of its ease of use. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud Traffic Director?** I haven't used it that much. But there's nothing to dislike as of now. **Recommendations to others considering Google Cloud Traffic Director:** N/A **What problems is Google Cloud Traffic Director solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to manage our company's Cloud network usage and track it accordingly. ## Google Cloud Traffic Director Discussions - [Website sales and traffic increase](https://www.g2.com/discussions/website-sales-and-traffic-increase) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Google Cloud Traffic Director pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-traffic-director/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+09%3A20%3A25+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=64d6c9ad-0329-4f90-95e3-17ee81b679d0&secure%5Btoken%5D=a6469ac1ae1a8601e8fdc99900c913af9fcea78689581968854dc5934a62dfd8&format=llm_user) ## Google Cloud Traffic Director Features **Functionality** - Supported Protocols - Container Orchestration - Extensibility - Monitoring **Usability - Load Balancing** - User Interface Design - Setup Simplicity - Platform Integration - Container Support **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Networking** - Networking - Load Balancing - Traffic Filtering - Service Discovery **Performance Optimization - Load Balancing** - Global Load Balancing - Dynamic Resource Allocation - Server Health Monitoring - Disaster Recovery **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Protection** - Policy Management - Secure Communications **Security & Compliance - Load Balancing** - SSL/TLS Termination - Application Firewall Integration - DDoS Mitigation - Access Control - IP Whitelisting/Blacklisting **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics ## Top Google Cloud Traffic Director Alternatives - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (577 reviews) - [HAProxy](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (883 reviews) - [Hostwinds](https://www.g2.com/products/hostwinds/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (419 reviews)