Networking services
You automatically get connected to the Virtual Private Network (VPN) for VPC when your IBM Cloud account is set up. By default, your server has a public IP address and a private IP address. If you want your server to be private, you can either turn off the public interface after your server is provisioned or order your server as private. For more information, see Getting started with Virtual Private Networking for more information.
Check out the following tables for a summary of networking options.
VPC infrastructure
Within the infrastructure layer, you can build a virtual private cloud, which is a virtual network that is tied to your IBM Cloud account.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Getting started with IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud | Provides cloud security and the ability to dynamically scale your virtual server instances. |
| Load balancer for VPC | Distributes traffic among multiple server instances within the same region of your VPC. |
| VPN for VPC | Securely connect your VPC to another private network. You can use VPN to set up an IPsec site-to-site tunnel between your VPC and your on-premises private network or another VPC. |
| DNS Services | Provides private DNS to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) users. |
| Transit Gateway | Interconnect IBM Cloud Classic and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) infrastructures worldwide, keeping traffic within the IBM Cloud network. |
| Direct Link 2.0 | Seamlessly connect your on-premises resources to your cloud resources. |
Classic infrastructure
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Content Delivery Network | Used for various industry solutions, including media, entertainment, software, gaming, banking, and e-commerce, to meet the needs of your businesses. |
| Domain Name Service | Provides a central location to view and manage your domains through the basic DNS management interface, and also gives you the option to manage reverse and secondary DNS in the same location for free of charge. |
| Global IP addresses | Provide flexibility to shift workloads between servers, even across geographically disparate data centers. |
| Load balancing | Distributes processing and communications evenly across multiple servers within a data center so that a single device does not carry an entire load. |
| Virtual Router Appliance | Selectively routes private and public network traffic through a full-featured enterprise router with firewall, traffic shaping, policy-based routing, VPN, and a host of other features. |
| IPSec VPN | A suite of protocols designed to authenticate and encrypt all IP traffic between two locations by using a tunnel mode that provides an encrypted site-to-site network. |
| IBM Cloud Direct Link | Leverages a Cloud Exchange provider to deliver connectivity to IBM Cloud infrastructure locations. |
| Gateway Appliances | Enhances control over network traffic, accelerates your network’s performance, and improves your network security. |
| Hardware Firewalls | Prevent unwanted traffic from hitting your servers, reduce your attack surface, and allow your server resources to be dedicated for their intended use. |
| Fortigate Security Appliance 10 Gbps | Protect traffic on multiple VLANs for both public and private networks. |
| VLANs | Isolate broadcast traffic on the public and private networks. |
| Subnets | Each subnet provides IP addresses to resources in different ways. |
Next steps
To continue, see Building your infrastructure with storage services.