Google Cloud Armor pricing and limits
iScoreGoogle Cloud's web application firewall and DDoS protection, billed per policy-hour, per rule-hour and per million requests.
Google Cloud Armor pricing at a glance
- Entry paid plan
- $0.006849315 per security-policy hour on the Standard tier — $5 a month — plus $0.001369863 per rule-hour, which is $1 a month source ↗
- Pricing model
- Per policy-hour, per rule-hour and per million requests on the Standard tier, with the two Enterprise tiers replacing all three with "All… source ↗
Who it suits
Google Cloud workloads needing a documented availability commitment: 99.99% for globally-scoped security policies, at the same $5 per policy and $1 per rule AWS charges.
Consider something else if…
Your policies are regional. The SLA drops to 99.9% for regionally-scoped backend policies, so the commitment depends on an architecture choice rather than on the tier you bought — and the Enterprise tiers that bundle request volume carry a one-year commitment.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
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Google Cloud Armor pricing
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“Security policies $0.006849315 / 1 hour”
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- Cloud Armor pricing ↗
“Data processing fee None Yes; see the following section Yes; see the following section Time commitment None None One year”
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Infrastructure
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- Google Cloud Armor Service Level Agreement ↗
“Google Cloud Armor - Globally-scoped Security Policies >=99.99%”
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Inference
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- Cloud Armor pricing ↗
“requests (regionally scoped security policies) $0.60 / 1,000,000”
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Google Cloud Armor pricing questions
How much does Google Cloud Armor cost?
$0.006849315 per security-policy hour on the Standard tier — $5 a month — plus $0.001369863 per rule-hour, which is $1 a month. The hourly figures carry nine decimal places because they are a monthly price divided by 730.
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How does Google Cloud Armor charge?
Per policy-hour, per rule-hour and per million requests on the Standard tier, with the two Enterprise tiers replacing all three with "All included" and a data processing fee instead. Enterprise Annual carries a one-year time commitment where Standard carries none. Bot management is billed separately under reCAPTCHA pricing.
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What uptime does Google Cloud Armor guarantee?
99.99% for globally-scoped security policies and 99.9% for regionally-scoped backend policies. The commitment depends on how the policy is scoped rather than on what you pay, which is unusual — every other SLA in this corpus is bought with a tier.
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