Services
Explore our broad portfolio of managed services for infrastructure, developer tools, and more to build your apps on the public cloud.
Direct Link Connect
- IBM
- Networking
Leverage a Service Provider to quickly establish and deliver connectivity to IBM Cloud locations
- Free
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
- Beta
Direct Link Dedicated (2.0)
- IBM
- Networking
IBM Cloud Direct Link helps ensure the security of sensitive data to and from the IBM Cloud
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
DNS Services
- IBM
- Networking
Use DNS Services on VPC Private Networks to manage hostnames and IP addresses while limiting access to the DNS records from permitted networks only.
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
Flow Logs for VPC
- IBM
- Networking
Enables the capture of information about the Internet Protocol (IP) traffic going to and from networks of your Virtual Private Clouds (VPC).
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
Load Balancer for VPC
- IBM
- Networking
Elastic Load Balancer as a service with core load balancing features and flexible usage-based pricing.
- Free
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
Virtual Private Cloud
- IBM
- Networking
Fully customizable, software-defined virtual network with superior isolation.
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
Virtual Private Endpoint for VPC
- IBM
- Networking
Delivers private connectivity through Virtual Private Endpoint Gateways to IBM Cloud Services utilizing client assigned IP addresses from within the VPC.
- IAM-enabled
VPN for VPC
- IBM
- Networking
VPN for VPC provides a simple yet powerful solution for highly scalable and robust site-to-site VPN. This VPN service provides a mixture of industry standard security and encryption options as well as support for Pre-shared Key authentication. The service also provides the ability to quickly add and remove VPN connections with the option to use pre-defined configurations.
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
Content Delivery Network
- IBM
- Networking
Content Delivery Network (CDN) distributes your content in geographically diverse nodes and shortens the distance it has to travel to get to your end user.
Internet Services
- IBM
- Networking
Using Cloudflare, Cloud Internet Services (CIS) provides Domain Name Service (DNS), Global Load Balancer (GLB), DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Rate Limiting, Smart Routing, and Caching.
- Free
- IAM-enabled

IPSec VPN
- IBM
- Networking
VPN access is designed to allow users to remotely manage all servers and services associated with their account over our private network.
Transit Gateway
- IBM
- Networking
Creates secure connectivity between your networks within IBM Cloud.
- Financial Services Validated
- IAM-enabled
Load Balancers
- IBM
- Networking
Use a load balancer service to distribute traffic among your application servers residing locally within data center. Choose from flexible pricing and deployment options summarized below.

Direct Link Connect on Classic
- IBM
- Networking
IBM Cloud Direct Link Connect offers private access to your IBM Cloud infrastructure and to any other clouds linked to your Network Service Provider, through your local IBM Cloud datacenter.

Direct Link Dedicated Hosting on Classic
- IBM
- Networking
Establish unparalleled network performance to and from your IBM Cloud platform resources, with customized support for your secure, dedicated workloads that require predictable latency.

Direct Link Dedicated on Classic
- IBM
- Networking
Connect directly to IBM Cloud through a single-tenant connection, using a dedicated circuit or cross-connect, for unparalleled network performance to and from your IBM Cloud platform resources.

Direct Link Exchange on Classic
- IBM
- Networking
IBM Cloud Direct Link Exchange offers multi-tenant connections to your IBM Cloud infrastructure, through your local IBM Cloud datacenter, perfect for creating multi-cloud connectivity in a single environment.
FortiGate Security Appliance 10Gbps
- IBM
- Networking
Single-tenant, high throughput firewall protects multiple VLANs on both public and private networks

Gateway Appliance
- IBM
- Networking
Protect your cloud infrastructure and optimize its performance with a gateway appliance.
Hardware Firewall
- IBM
- Networking
Secure your IBM IaaS environment (and all the information stored there) as well as preventing malicious activity from ever reaching your servers or end users.
Secondary Subnets
- IBM
- Networking
Secondary subnets provide additional IP addresses for your compute resources, and are well suited for use as external application or service addresses.

VLAN
- IBM
- Networking
VLANs isolate broadcast traffic on all IBM Cloud public and private networks. If you need a more complex network topology, additional VLANs can be purchased to isolate traffic between additional groups of devices.