Government cloud customers are embracing multicloud architectures to help enhance operational flexibility, reduce costs, and address rigorous cybersecurity requirements. To simplify migrations and multicloud deployment, Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud is now available in Oracle US Gov East (Ashburn) and Google Cloud us-east4 (Ashburn). The strategic alliance between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) delivers a private, high-performance service that seamlessly bridges OCI and GCP. Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud helps government agencies and the companies that serve them address compliance requirements while offering best-in-class services across both clouds. By providing robust data sovereignty controls and prescriptive migration guidance, Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud empowers key decision makers to modernize government workloads securely, cost-effectively, and at scale.

Built for high-assurance networking

Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud is a dedicated, private interconnection service that combines the OCI FastConnect partner model and Google Cloud Partner Interconnect to help multicloud customers innovate across the two clouds and use their existing tools and framework. This interconnection allows customers to provision high-bandwidth connectivity in minutes and scale on-demand with low latency.   

Operational simplicity and cost control

Public sector IT organizations are being asked to do more with tighter budgets. Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud waives cross-cloud data egress charges, reducing costs for data-intensive workloads such as database replication or migration. Connectivity is provisioned and monitored through the GCP Network ConnectivityCenter and OCI FastConnect consoles, with SLA-backed uptime. Customers can create virtual circuits for as little as 1 Gbps and scale on demand, avoiding costly over-provisioning. 

Address compliance and security requirements

To protect sensitive data, public sector clouds must comply with regulatory frameworks. Oracle US Government Cloud is Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level (IL) 2 and IL4 authorized, offering customers a compliant foundation for unclassified workloads. Likewise, Google Cloud offers FedRAMP High-authorized services, giving customers a pre-vetted control baseline for workloads. When additional locality or personnel controls are required, Google Cloud Assured Workloads allows you to fence resources to US regions, restrict support access, and automatically inherit configurations mapped to the required compliance framework. The interconnect uses OCI FastConnect and GCP Partner Interconnect to create private VLAN attachments, enabling agencies to architect multicloud networks to satisfy stringent security baselines without data traversing the public internet.

Implementation strategies

See the following best practices for implementing Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud:

  • High availability: Provision redundant interconnect circuits to stay highly available, reduce the likelihood of unforeseen outages, and maintain steady uptime. Use Oracle Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG) and GCP Cloud Router with BGP dynamic routing for resilient and redundant network paths.
  • Security posture management: Employ the OCI Vulnerability Scanning service and Google Cloud Security Command Center to regularly validate compliance checks. Integrate with SIEM solutions to centralize audit logs.
  • Network segmentation: Use multiple DRG route tables, OCI Network Firewall service, Network Security Groups (NSGs), and security lists to partition sensitive workloads and allow traffic only on specified ports to enforce zero-trust principles.
  • Scale on-demand: Increase the bandwidth seamlessly from 1 Gbps up to 50 Gbps depending on application requirements. Use multiple virtual circuits with ECMP (equal-cost multi-pathing) to provision bandwidth higher than 50 Gbps.
  • Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Leverage OCI Terraform to automate the deployment of network, security, and compute resources across both OCI and GCP, enabling repeatable, auditable deployments across your organization.

The bottom line

Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud represents a major leap in government cloud interoperability, delivering a compliant, secure, and cost-effective foundation for mission-critical workloads. By leveraging private, low-latency connections, customers can unify their best services across OCI and GCP, adhere to FedRAMP mandates, optimize budgets, and accelerate digital transformation. As government cloud strategies evolve, multicloud connectivity will remain a cornerstone for resilient, scalable, and innovative public sector IT.

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