About Private Path

The Private Path solution solves security, privacy and complexity problems. Through Private Path, providers can deliver their services over the IBM Cloud private network backbone, ensuring secure and private interactions for consumers. Providers can offer their services to IBM Cloud customers over Private Path using the IBM Cloud infrastructure. Private Path components are used when connecting to IBM Cloud services, and can now be used for third-party applications and services.

The Private Path solution has the following advantages:

Increased security and privacy

Private Path allows targeted and directional connectivity between VPCs and accounts, allowing only consumers to initiate connections to the provider's service endpoint.

Granular control

Explicit authorization gives providers full control over who can access their services.

Scaling out managed services

Point-to-point connectivity, with no other shared resource dependencies between consumer and producer VPC networks, simplifies deployment and enables providers to easily scale managed services.

Decreased complexity

Simplify cloud network management and consume services directly in virtual networks without needing complex setups. Set up access policy enforcement and quickly expose and consume services across different networks and organizations.

High Performance and scalability

The Private Paths load balancer transparently scales out to provide extremely high throughput and low latency.

High Availability

Private Path network load balancer is a regional load balancer and is resilient to a zone failing.

The Private Path solution incorporates various products that IBM Cloud customers are already familiar with, such as VPC and network load balancers. It also incorporates any configured Virtual Private Endpoint (VPE) gateways and DNS Services, ensuring that the entire point-to-point data path is private across IBM Cloud.

To use IBM Cloud Private Path, you must first have an IBM Cloud account. To learn more, see Setting up your IBM Cloud account.