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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Associate Cloud Engineer · Domain 2: Planning and implementing a cloud solution

VPC networks: auto vs custom mode, subnets, firewall rules, Shared VPC and VPC Network Peering

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A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network in Google Cloud is global: one VPC can have subnets in many regions, and VMs in different regions of the same VPC can talk over internal IPs without extra setup. Subnets are regional and each has a primary IPv4 range, plus optional secondary ranges used for things like GKE pod and service IPs.

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