Cloud Interconnect and Cloud Router use cases
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Updated at June 10, 2025
Use cases with reservation
- On-prem with redundancy and 1 VPC
- On-prem with redundancy and multiple VPCs
- Reserving an on-prem connection via a VPN gateway
- Even redistribution of on-prem traffic (Active-Active)
- Prioritizing on-prem traffic based on direction (Active-Standby)
- Even traffic distribution for route 0.0.0.0/0
- Prioritizing traffic by direction for route 0.0.0.0/0
- Prioritizing a static VPC route over routes from on-prem
Use cases without reservation
- On-prem without redundancy and 1 VPC
- On-prem without redundancy and multiple VPCs
- Two separate RIs without on-prem redundancy
VPC Stitching use cases
- Establishing network connectivity between two (or more) cloud networks
- Establishing network connectivity between two (or more) cloud networks and on-prem resources