# Google VPC Service Controls Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-access-security-broker-casb) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Google VPC Service Controls VPC Service Controls allow users to define a security perimeter around Google Cloud Platform resources such as Cloud Storage buckets, Bigtable instances, and BigQuery datasets to constrain data within a VPC and help mitigate data exfiltration risks. With VPC Service Controls, enterprises can keep their sensitive data private as they take advantage of the fully managed storage and data processing capabilities of Google Cloud Platform. ## Google VPC Service Controls Reviews ### 1. Cloud security and firewall at it best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank B. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** VPC is in cloud network security which helps to restrict access to the resource. VPC UI is very simple and easy to manage components in this tool. It is easy to maintain a VPN across boundaries. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** There are some limits on the VPC network. nothing to dislike here as it overcomes almost all issues that another cloud provider has. Google always provides something that has better UI and google did n't let us down this time too. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are limiting access between database and application We are restricting the internet to allow only allowed resources and protecting secure resources. We are also able to maintain Firewall rules to all VM and storage object ### 2. Is Google VPC secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitish . | Cloud Architect using Microsoft Azure - Scholarship Program, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Access from unauthorized networks using stolen credentials: By allowing private access only from authorized VPC networks, VPC Service Controls protects against theft of OAuth credentials or service account credentials. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Not a big negative or dislike part on google cloud but i can say according to my experience. Customers to address threats such as data theft, accidental data loss, and excessive access to data stored in Google Cloud multi-tenant services. **Recommendations to others considering Google VPC Service Controls:** yes **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** VPC Service Controls allow customers to address threats such as data theft, accidental data loss, and excessive access to data stored in Google Cloud multi-tenant services. It enables clients to tightly control what entities can access what services to reduce both intentional and unintentional losses. ### 3. Awesome tool to prevent data loss and theft. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin A. | Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** VPC Service Controls prevents data theft, accidental data loss, and excessive access to data stored in Google Cloud multi-tenant services. We can implement technical security control in GCP using this tool on different GCP projects and service groupings. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** VPC Service Controls only restrict access to Google APIs. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves data theft, accidental data loss, and excessive access. It enables clients to control what entities can access what services tightly. ### 4. On-prem network setup. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vineet N. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Connects to on-premises networks using Cloud VPN tunnels and Cloud Interconnect attachments. Tools: Dockers, K8s **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Not very much to dislike about this, the documentation could be a bit more graphical to ease the understandings. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** We try to reproduce our on-prem setup over cloud to test and deploy customer like scenarios and test. It was beneficial as it gave a way to better testing. ### 5. A great service to increase level of security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aashish B. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Because it mitigate exhilaration risks by isolating multi tenant services. We can insure that sensitive data can only be accessed from authorized network. Resource access can be restricted to allowed IP addresses. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Nothing as of now. It should be must have for anyone hitting the world of multi tenant SaaS world. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** Now having better control over data that is being shared among tenants. ### 6. Seamless experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** I like the seamless integration with GKE containers for a private application architecture. Peering two seperate VPC is also a very fluid experience the cli commands works just right and the service reacts swiftly. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** I would like more clear documentation for routing overall. For beginners the tutorials should be there which addresses a general purpose and help understand how the VPC works. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** VPC is great and manageable even for a complex private system which have many subnets to which the services are connected with and network rules works just right. ### 7. The best tool to mitigate security controls. By allowing private access only from authorized vpc nw **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya S. | Cloud Data Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Vpc service controls protects against theft of ouatg creds or SA credentials. It is easy to setup and seperating subnets. Good Access setup for authorized utilisation. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Sometimes misconfigurations leads to malicious attacks. By default scanner option. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cheap and faster during deployment. Helped save cost for customers. Scalability across region and zones ### 8. Good UI for beginners **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivansh V. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Mainly User Interface and the ease to use it. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Not major dislike but they are same as AWS, so next time please be more authentic. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good for using first time, and nice UI also services are mentioned as clear. ### 9. It's easy to setup and more information available **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Complete setup for accessing good cloud instances, and seperating subnets,easy to understand UI at some places.Access setup for authroized utilisation is good. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Misconfiguartion leads to malicious attacks, needs to attach scanner by default option which is not available. Compare to Aws it needs to more options need to bring up **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access issues. Blocking unauthorised transactions Servers differentiation between different environments. Different network level setup for each environment. Access group setups. ### 10. GCP review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sayak B. | Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Google VPC is really fast during deployments and is also cheap. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Google VPC dont have much needed combinations of services. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying workloads is one of the key tasks that we do. ### 11. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** CHANDRAMOULI R. | Software Engineer Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** The UI and the options we have to implement networking. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Nothing everything looks awesome and nothing to dislike **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access management, data theft protection ### 12. Robust and secure service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** security against data theft and data loss **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Being new the awareness about this is low so few information is available with people nowadays **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an additional layer of security over my system. I personally feel safer using it. ### 13. Google VPC reviws **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** The control we have over the ingress and egress **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Nothing is explicitly dislikable . Its like any any competent cloud provider. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** The isolation and security promised in a VPC is what is best here. ### 14. One of the best VPC solution in cloud offering*GCP* **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanchit M. | DDI/f5 SME, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** Creating VPC in gcp cloud is fairly simple and gives you lot of scaling options across google 25 region and 75 zones all around the globe. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** Make sure to use hub and spoke design or else things might get messy.in terms of managing them. **Recommendations to others considering Google VPC Service Controls:** Google is doing commendable job in there cloud offering **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are moving all on prem network infra service to gcp cloud. ### 15. Google VPC Service Control Gives segregation to security best practices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Intekhab Alam K. | Software Tester, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** The capacity to have different subnets inside a similar VPC organization taking into consideration effectively development if IP space is over-designated. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** The current VPC peering usefulness is deficient in the capacity to share custom courses between other VPC organizations, expected to get on-prem courses to non-VPN associated VPCs. **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are utilizing it to make isolated zones off a Palo for West-East traffic streams. ### 16. VPC service control Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suraj C. | Cloud DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** The vpc service control is providing the organization level security in term of policies **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** As per my experience, there is nothing to dislike **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** we apply vpc service control for restricting the access of GCS and bigquery from an outside organization network. Bigquery and gcs access from anywhere you can't restrict using another way so we have to use vpc service control for that ### 17. use of VPC networks **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Miguel Angel C. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Google VPC Service Controls?** I like the freedom to build custom networks and subnet groups by zones, in addition to using tags with the integrated firewall to limit access to virtual machines. By combining the VPC with the access level I can even limit access from a specific range or IP. **What do you dislike about Google VPC Service Controls?** One of the problems encountered is the lack of being able to visualize the structure of the armed network in a more graphic way, that would make it much easier for architects to design more complex networks in a less abstract way and also to be able to graphically show the customer what is being sold . **Recommendations to others considering Google VPC Service Controls:** VPC is a very powerful security and access limitation tool, but to fully exploit its potential it is advisable to combine it with other Google tools such as IAM or access level **What problems is Google VPC Service Controls solving and how is that benefiting you?** We work in an integrated solution with VPC and access level, where we limit access to Bigquery from the IP of our secure zone, we also work to limit access to virtual machines by tag ## Google VPC Service Controls Discussions - [Which of the following services lets you access VPC resources residing in Compute Engine from applications running on App Engine or cloud functions?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-services-lets-you-access-vpc-resources-residing-in-compute-engine-from-applications-running-on-app-engine-or-cloud-functions) - [How does Google VPC work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-google-vpc-work) - [What is VPC service perimeter?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vpc-service-perimeter) - [What are VPC service controls?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-vpc-service-controls) - [How to isolate multi-tenant services based upon the a specific custom identifier](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-to-isolate-multi-tenant-services-based-upon-the-a-specific-custom-identifier) - 1 upvote - [View Google VPC Service Controls pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-vpc-service-controls/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+21%3A50%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=595358c0-1a4d-4bfe-97a7-8236f301f9ae&secure%5Btoken%5D=ad7f02009d8c5db7d3b7627a62c68319e2da39e72c409bbbba83297727ace7ed&format=llm_user) ## Google VPC Service Controls Features **Analysis** - User Analytics - Cloud Gap Analytics - Anomoly Detection **Functionality** - SSO - Cloud Registry - Mobile Device Mangement **Security** - Governance - Data loss Prevention - Data Encryption/Security - Access Control ## Top Google VPC Service Controls Alternatives - [Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-harmony-email-collaboration/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (464 reviews) - [Check Point SASE](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-sase/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (215 reviews) - [Symantec Web Security Service](https://www.g2.com/products/symantec-web-security-service/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (109 reviews)