Choosing Networking Service of Huawei CLOUD
Overview
Huawei Cloud is one of the promising new Cloud service providers in the current era. Huawei is recognized as a representative vendor in the Gartner IaaS Market Guide report [1]. Also recently, HUAWEI CLOUD has been placed in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems 2020 [2]
Networking in CLOUD
Networking construct is Key building block for every infrastructure, either it is on-prem or cloud. It helps in the building, expansion & operations of the organization.
Huawei cloud is very rich in networking services from VPC, VPN, Gateways, Interconnects, and DNS.
But before getting into the networking world of the Cloud, If you need to have a walk-through of HuaweiCLOUD.
Please refer Tour de Huawei CLOUD [ https://forum.huawei.com/enterprise/en/tour-de-huawei-cloud/thread/694311-893]
Networking Service in CLOUD
Source: Huawei CLOUD Website
Huawei CLOUD Networking Service
The following table will help us in deciding services to use as per need.
If you want to | Use |
Use an isolated and highly secure cloud location to connect your Elastic Compute Services (VMs) and applications. | VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) |
Balance inbound and outbound traffic to applications for better performance and reliability | ELB (Elastic Load Balance) |
Establish a secure, encrypted communications tunnel between your local data center and your VPC on HUAWEI CLOUD. | VPN (Virtual Private Network) |
Provide highly available and scalable authoritative DNS resolution services along with domain name management | DNS (Domain Name Service) |
Accelerate the delivery of high-bandwidth content to customers worldwide. | CDN (Content Delivery Network) |
Establish a high-speed, low-latency, stable, and secure dedicated network connection that links your environment to HUAWEI CLOUD. | Direct Connect |
Enable you to quickly build ultra-fast, high-quality, and stable networks between VPCs across regions and between VPCs and on-premises data centers. | Cloud Connect |
Provide a public IP address that can be accessed directly over the Internet with some amount of public network egress bandwidth | Elastic IP (EIP) |
After getting knowledge of key networking services, Lets us have a quick view of the network console of Huawei CLOUD.
Network Console
Here is a glance at the console for networking services.
Huawei CLOUD Console
Source: Huawei CLOUD Website
1. For selecting Region 2. Searching Field 3. Dashboard for Networking Service 4. Status of currently running resources 5. List of Networking Services
Let’s deep dive in the Networking part of Huawei CLOUD
Huawei CLOUD Console
Source: Huawei CLOUD Website
1. VPC 2. Subnets 3. Route Table 4. Access Control a. Security Group b. NACL 5. Elastic IP & BW 6. NAT Gateway 7. Elastic Load Balance 8. VPC Peering 9. VPC Endpoint 10. VPN 11. Direct Connect 12. Cloud Connect 13. ECS 14. Region 15. Details of resources being used.
Conclusion
Huawei CLOUD provides an essential showcase of networking services and more to be added in near future for its customers as per Huawei’s customer-centric approach.
It also introduced its plans to establish new ecosystems and open up tremendous business opportunities to its partner ecosystem.
It is not the end but the beginning. Sharing about networking services of Huawei CLOUD in the next article.
References
[2] https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/news/20201207165338825.html
