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Google Cloud Armor

iScore63–71 · #3/4
cloud.google.com/armor · WAF and DDoS
SEPT 2026 audit

Google Cloud's web application firewall and DDoS protection, billed per policy-hour, per rule-hour and per million requests.

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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. The hourly figures carry nine decimal places because they are a monthly price divided by 730.
CategoryWAF and DDoS

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01.Evaluation guide

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.

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Pricing
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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. The hourly figures carry nine decimal places because they are a monthly price divided by 730.
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Pricing modelPer 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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  • Cloud Armor pricing ↗

    “Data processing fee None Yes; see the following section Yes; see the following section Time commitment None None One year”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Infrastructure
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Uptime SLA99.99% 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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Inference
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Rate limits$0.60 per million requests against regionally scoped security policies on Standard. The Enterprise tiers include request volume rather than metering it, so the per-request charge disappears at the point the commitment appears.
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  • Cloud Armor pricing ↗

    “requests (regionally scoped security policies) $0.60 / 1,000,000”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

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