Supported products and limitations

This page contains a table of products and services that are supported by VPC Service Controls, as well as a list of known limitations with certain services and interfaces.

Supported products

Note: This table includes all products that are supported by VPC Service Controls and operate normally inside a service perimeter. However, not all supported products have services that can be protected by a perimeter.

VPC Service Controls supports the following products:

Supported products	Description
Cloud Search	Status GA Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudsearch.googleapis.com Details Google Cloud Search supports Virtual Private Cloud Security Controls (VPC-SC) to enhance the security of your data. VPC-SC allows you to define a security perimeter around Google Cloud Platform resources to constrain data and help mitigate data exfiltration risks. For more information about Cloud Search, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Because Cloud Search resources are not stored in a GCP project, you must update the Cloud Search customer settings with the VPC perimeter protected project. The VPC project acts as a virtual project container for all your Cloud Search resources. Without building this mapping, VPC Service Controls won't work for the Cloud Search API. For complete steps to enable VPC Service Controls with Google Cloud Search, refer to Enhance security for Google Cloud Search.
Connectivity Tests	Status Preview Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name networkmanagement.googleapis.com Details The API for Connectivity Tests can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Connectivity Tests, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Connectivity Tests integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
AI Platform Prediction	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name ml.googleapis.com Details VPC Service Controls supports online prediction, but not batch prediction. For more information about AI Platform Prediction, refer to the product documentation. Limitations To fully protect AI Platform Prediction, add all of the following APIs to the service perimeter: AI Platform Training and Prediction API (ml.googleapis.com) Pub/Sub API (pubsub.googleapis.com) Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) Google Kubernetes Engine API (container.googleapis.com) Container Registry API (containerregistry.googleapis.com) Cloud Logging API (logging.googleapis.com) Read more about setting up VPC Service Controls for AI Platform Prediction. Batch prediction is not supported when you use AI Platform Prediction inside a service perimeter. AI Platform Prediction and AI Platform Training both use the AI Platform Training and Prediction API, so you must configure VPC Service Controls for both products. Read more about setting up VPC Service Controls for AI Platform Training.
AI Platform Training	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name ml.googleapis.com Details The API for AI Platform Training can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about AI Platform Training, refer to the product documentation. Limitations To fully protect your AI Platform Training training jobs, add all of the following APIs to the service perimeter: AI Platform Training and Prediction API (ml.googleapis.com) Pub/Sub API (pubsub.googleapis.com) Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) Google Kubernetes Engine API (container.googleapis.com) Container Registry API (containerregistry.googleapis.com) Cloud Logging API (logging.googleapis.com) Read more about setting up VPC Service Controls for AI Platform Training. Training with TPUs is not supported when you use AI Platform Training inside a service perimeter. AI Platform Training and AI Platform Prediction both use the AI Platform Training and Prediction API, so you must configure VPC Service Controls for both products. Read more about setting up VPC Service Controls for AI Platform Prediction.
Notebooks	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name notebooks.googleapis.com Details The API for Notebooks can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Notebooks, refer to the product documentation. Limitations To use Notebooks within a VPC Service Controls service perimeter, you must add or configure several DNS entries to point the following domains to the restricted VIP: *.notebooks.googleapis.com *.notebooks.cloud.google.com *.notebooks.googleusercontent.com
Vertex AI	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name aiplatform.googleapis.com beta Details The API for Vertex AI can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Vertex AI, refer to the product documentation. Limitations For more information about limitations, see limitations in the Vertex AI documentation.
Apigee and Apigee hybrid	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name apigee.googleapis.com, apigeeconnect.googleapis.com Details The API for Apigee and Apigee hybrid can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Apigee and Apigee hybrid, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Apigee integrations with VPC Service Controls have the following limitations: Integrated portals require additional steps to configure. You must deploy Drupal portals within the service perimeter.
Anthos Service Mesh	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name meshca.googleapis.com Details The API for Anthos Service Mesh can be protected by VPC Service Controls, and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. Learn about configuring private clusters when installing multiple clusters in Anthos Service Mesh. Learn about adding Anthos Service Mesh services to the service perimeters. For more information about Anthos Service Mesh, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Service perimeters are not currently supported with Anthos Service Mesh Managed Control Plane.
Artifact Registry	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name artifactregistry.googleapis.com Details In addition to protecting the Artifact Registry API, Artifact Registry can be used inside service perimeters with GKE and Compute Engine. For more information about Artifact Registry, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Because it is not using the googleapis.com domain, Artifact Registry must be configured via Private DNS or BIND to map to the restricted VIP separately from other APIs. For more information, see Securing repositories in a service perimeter. In addition to the artifacts inside a perimeter that are available to Artifact Registry, the following read-only Google-managed Container Registry repositories are available to all projects regardless of service perimeters: gcr.io/asci-toolchain gcr.io/cloud-airflow-releaser gcr.io/cloud-builders gcr.io/cloud-dataflow gcr.io/cloud-marketplace gcr.io/cloud-ssa gcr.io/cloudsql-docker gcr.io/config-management-release gcr.io/foundry-dev gcr.io/fn-img gcr.io/gke-node-images gcr.io/gke-release gcr.io/google-containers gcr.io/kubeflow gcr.io/kubeflow-images-public gcr.io/kubernetes-helm gcr.io/istio-release gcr.io/ml-pipeline gcr.io/projectcalico-org gcr.io/rbe-containers gcr.io/rbe-windows-test-images gcr.io/speckle-umbrella gcr.io/stackdriver-agents gcr.io/tensorflow gke.gcr.io k8s.gcr.io In all cases, the regional versions of these repositories are also available. Cached images on mirror.gcr.io are only available if Container Registry is also in the perimeter.
AutoML Natural Language	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name automl.googleapis.com, eu-automl.googleapis.com Details To fully protect the AutoML API, include all of the following APIs in your perimeter: AutoML API (automl.googleapis.com) Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com) BigQuery API (bigquery.googleapis.com) For more information about AutoML Natural Language, refer to the product documentation. Limitations All AutoML products that are integrated with VPC Service Controls use the same service address. For more information, see the limitations for using AutoML products with VPC Service Controls.
AutoML Tables	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name automl.googleapis.com, eu-automl.googleapis.com Details To fully protect the AutoML API, include all of the following APIs in your perimeter: AutoML API (automl.googleapis.com) Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com) BigQuery API (bigquery.googleapis.com) For more information about AutoML Tables, refer to the product documentation. Limitations All AutoML products that are integrated with VPC Service Controls use the same service address. For more information, see the limitations for using AutoML products with VPC Service Controls.
AutoML Translation	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name automl.googleapis.com, eu-automl.googleapis.com Details To fully protect the AutoML API, include all of the following APIs in your perimeter: AutoML API (automl.googleapis.com) Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com) BigQuery API (bigquery.googleapis.com) For more information about AutoML Translation, refer to the product documentation. Limitations All AutoML products that are integrated with VPC Service Controls use the same service address. For more information, see the limitations for using AutoML products with VPC Service Controls.
AutoML Video Intelligence	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name automl.googleapis.com, eu-automl.googleapis.com Details To fully protect the AutoML API, include all of the following APIs in your perimeter: AutoML API (automl.googleapis.com) Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com) BigQuery API (bigquery.googleapis.com) For more information about AutoML Video Intelligence, refer to the product documentation. Limitations All AutoML products that are integrated with VPC Service Controls use the same service address. For more information, see the limitations for using AutoML products with VPC Service Controls.
AutoML Vision	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name automl.googleapis.com, eu-automl.googleapis.com Details To fully protect the AutoML API, include all of the following APIs in your perimeter: AutoML API (automl.googleapis.com) Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com) BigQuery API (bigquery.googleapis.com) For more information about AutoML Vision, refer to the product documentation. Limitations All AutoML products that are integrated with VPC Service Controls use the same service address. For more information, see the limitations for using AutoML products with VPC Service Controls.
BigQuery	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name bigquery.googleapis.com Details When you protect the BigQuery API using a service perimeter, the BigQuery Storage API is also protected. You do not need to separately add the BigQuery Storage API to your perimeter's list of protected services. For more information about BigQuery, refer to the product documentation. Limitations BigQuery audit log records do not always include all resources that were used when a request is made, due to the service internally processing access to multiple resources. When accessing a BigQuery instance protected by a service perimeter, the BigQuery job must be run within a project inside the perimeter, or in a project allowed by an egress rule of the perimeter. By default, the BigQuery client libraries will run jobs within the service account or user's project, causing the query to be rejected by VPC Service Controls.
BigQuery Data Transfer Service	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name bigquerydatatransfer.googleapis.com Details Service perimeter only protects BigQuery Data Transfer Service API. The actual data protection is enforced by BigQuery. It is by design to allow importing data from various external sources outside of Google Cloud, such as Amazon S3, Redshift, Teradata, YouTube, Google Play and Google Ads, into BigQuery datasets. For more information about BigQuery Data Transfer Service, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The BigQuery Data Transfer Service doesn't support exporting data out of a BigQuery dataset. See Exporting table data for more information. The BigQuery Data Transfer Service doesn't support third party data sources to transfer data into projects protected by a service perimeter.
Cloud Bigtable	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name bigtable.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Bigtable can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Bigtable, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Bigtable integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Binary Authorization	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name binaryauthorization.googleapis.com beta Details When using multiple projects with Binary Authorization, each project must be included in the VPC Service Controls perimeter. For more information about this use case, see Multi-project setup. With Binary Authorization, you may use Container Analysis to store attestors and attestations as notes and occurrences, respectively. In this case, you must also include Container Analysis in the VPC Service Controls perimeter. See VPC Service Controls guidance for Container Analysis for additional details. For more information about Binary Authorization, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Binary Authorization integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Certificate Authority Service	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name privateca.googleapis.com beta Details The API for Certificate Authority Service can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Certificate Authority Service, refer to the product documentation. Limitations To use Certificate Authority Service in a protected environment, you must also add the Cloud KMS API (cloudkms.googleapis.com) and the Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com) to your service perimeter.
Data Catalog	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name datacatalog.googleapis.com Details Data Catalog automatically respects perimeters around other Google Cloud services. For more information about Data Catalog, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Data Catalog integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Data Fusion	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name datafusion.googleapis.com Details Cloud Data Fusion requires some special steps to protect using VPC Service Controls. For more information about Cloud Data Fusion, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Establish the VPC Service Controls security perimeter before creating your Cloud Data Fusion private instance. Perimeter protection for instances created prior to setting up VPC Service Controls is not supported. Currently, the Cloud Data Fusion data plane UI does not support identity based access using ingress rules or access levels.
Compute Engine	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name compute.googleapis.com Details VPC Service Controls support for Compute Engine offers the following security benefits: Restricts access to sensitive API operations Restricts persistent disk snapshots and custom images to a perimeter Restricts access to instance metadata VPC Service Controls support for Compute Engine also enables you to utilize Virtual Private Cloud networks and Google Kubernetes Engine private clusters inside service perimeters. For more information about Compute Engine, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Hierarchical firewalls are not affected by service perimeters. VPC Peering operations do not enforce VPC service perimeter restrictions. The projects.ListXpnHosts API method for Shared VPC does not enforce service perimeter restrictions on returned projects. To enable creating a Compute Engine image from a Cloud Storage in a project protected by a service perimeter, the user that is creating the image should be added temporarily to an ingress rule of the perimeter. VPC Service Controls does not support using the open-source version of Kubernetes on Compute Engine VMs inside a service perimeter.
Dataflow	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name dataflow.googleapis.com Details Dataflow supports a number of storage service connectors. The following connectors have been verified to work with Dataflow inside a service perimeter: Cloud Storage (Java , Python ) BigQuery (Java, Python ) Pub/Sub ( Java , Python ) Cloud Bigtable (Java ) Cloud Spanner (Java ) For more information about Dataflow, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Custom BIND is not supported when using Dataflow. To customize DNS resolution when using Dataflow with VPC Service Controls, use Cloud DNS private zones instead of using custom BIND servers. To use your own on-premises DNS resolution, consider using a Google Cloud DNS forwarding method. Not all storage service connectors have been verified to work when used with Dataflow inside a service perimeter. For a list of verified connectors, see the Dataflow details. When using Python 3.5 with Apache Beam SDK 2.20.0‑2.22.0, Dataflow jobs will fail at startup if the workers have private IP addresses only, such as when using VPC Service Controls to protect resources. If Dataflow workers can only have private IP addresses, such as when using VPC Service Controls to protect resources, do not use Python 3.5 with Apache Beam SDK 2.20.0‑2.22.0. This combination causes jobs to fail at startup.
Dataproc	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name dataproc.googleapis.com Details Dataproc requires some special steps to protect using VPC Service Controls. For more information about Dataproc, refer to the product documentation. Limitations To protect a Dataproc cluster with a service perimeter, you must follow the instructions for setting up private connectivity to allow the cluster to function inside the perimeter.
Dataproc Metastore	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name metastore.googleapis.com Details The API for Dataproc Metastore can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Dataproc Metastore, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Dataproc Metastore integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Dialogflow	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name dialogflow.googleapis.com Details The API for Dialogflow can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Dialogflow, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Dialogflow integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Data Loss Prevention	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name dlp.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Data Loss Prevention can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Data Loss Prevention, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Because VPC Service Controls does not currently support folder and organization resources, DLP calls may return a 403 response when attempting to access organization-level resources. We recommend that IAM is used to manage DLP permissions at the folder and organization level.
Document AI	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name documentai.googleapis.com Details The API for Document AI can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Document AI, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Document AI integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Functions	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudfunctions.googleapis.com Details See the Cloud Functions documentation for setup steps. VPC Service Controls protection does not apply to the build phase when Cloud Functions are built using Cloud Build. VPC Service Controls protection applies for all function triggers except Firebase Realtime Database triggers and Firebase Crashlytics triggers. For more details, see the known limitations. For more information about Cloud Functions, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Cloud Functions uses Cloud Build to build your source code into a runnable container. In order to use Cloud Functions inside a service perimeter, you must configure an ingress rule for the Cloud Build Service Account in your service perimeter. To allow your functions to use external dependencies such as npm packages, Cloud Build has unlimited internet access. This internet access could be used to exfiltrate data that is available at build time, such as your uploaded source code. If you want to mitigate this exfiltration vector, we recommend that you only allow trusted developers to deploy functions. Do not grant Cloud Functions Owner, Editor, or Developer IAM roles to untrusted developers. For Firebase Realtime Database triggers and Firebase Crashlytics triggers, a user could deploy a function that could be triggered by changes to a Firebase Realtime Database or Firebase Crashlytics in a different project outside the service perimeter of the project in which the function is deployed. If you want to mitigate the exfiltration vector for these two triggers, we recommend that you only allow trusted developers to deploy functions. Do not grant Cloud Functions Owner, Editor, or Developer IAM roles to untrusted developers.
Identity and Access Management	Status Beta Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name iam.googleapis.com Details When you restrict IAM with a perimeter, only actions that use the IAM API are restricted. These actions include managing custom IAM roles, managing workload identity pools, and managing service accounts and keys. The perimeter does not restrict actions that use other APIs, including the following: IAM Policy Simulator API IAM Policy Troubleshooter API Security Token Service API Service Account Credentials API (including the legacy signBlob and signJwt methods in the IAM API) The perimeter around IAM also does not restrict getting or setting IAM policies for resources owned by other services, such as Compute Engine virtual machine instances. To restrict getting and setting IAM policies for these resources, create a perimeter that restricts the service that owns the resources. For a list of resources that accept IAM policies and the services that own them, see Resource types that accept IAM policies. For more information about Identity and Access Management, refer to the product documentation. Limitations If you are inside the perimeter, you cannot call the roles.list method with an empty string to list IAM predefined roles. If you need to view predefined roles, see IAM role documentation.
Serverless VPC Access	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name vpcaccess.googleapis.com Details The API for Serverless VPC Access can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Serverless VPC Access, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Serverless VPC Access integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Key Management Service	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudkms.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Key Management Service can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Key Management Service, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Key Management Service integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Game Servers	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name gameservices.googleapis.com Details The API for Game Servers can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Game Servers, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Game Servers integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Identity-Aware Proxy for TCP	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name iaptunnel.googleapis.com Details The API for Identity-Aware Proxy for TCP can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Identity-Aware Proxy for TCP, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Only the usage API of IAP for TCP can be protected by a perimeter. The administrative API cannot be protected by a perimeter. To use IAP for TCP within a VPC Service Controls service perimeter, you must add or configure some DNS entries to point the following domains to the restricted VIP: tunnel.cloudproxy.app *.tunnel.cloudproxy.app
Cloud Life Sciences	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name lifesciences.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Life Sciences can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Life Sciences, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Life Sciences integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name managedidentities.googleapis.com Details Additional configuration required for: On-premises access to the Managed Microsoft AD API Shared VPC For more information about Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
reCAPTCHA Enterprise	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com beta Details The API for reCAPTCHA Enterprise can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about reCAPTCHA Enterprise, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The reCAPTCHA Enterprise integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Recommender	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name recommender.googleapis.com Details The API for Recommender can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Recommender, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Recommender integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Secret Manager	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name secretmanager.googleapis.com Details The API for Secret Manager can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Secret Manager, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Secret Manager integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Pub/Sub	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name pubsub.googleapis.com Details VPC Service Controls protection applies to all administrator operations, publisher operations, and subscriber operations (except for existing push subscriptions). For more information about Pub/Sub, refer to the product documentation. Limitations In projects protected by a service perimeter, new push subscriptions cannot be created unless the push endpoints are set to Cloud Run services with default run.app URLs (custom domains won't work). The Cloud Run integration is in preview. Pub/Sub push subscriptions created prior to the service perimeter will not be blocked.
Pub/Sub Lite	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name pubsublite.googleapis.com Details VPC Service Controls protection applies to all subscriber operations. For more information about Pub/Sub Lite, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Pub/Sub Lite integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Build	Status Preview. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudbuild.googleapis.com Details Using VPC Service Controls with Cloud Build is only available to restricted users. For more information about Cloud Build, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Using VPC Service Controls with Cloud Build is only available to restricted users.
Cloud Composer	Status GA Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name composer.googleapis.com Details Configuring Composer for use with VPC Service Controls For more information about Cloud Composer, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Enabling DAG serialization prevents Airflow from displaying a rendered template with functions in the web UI. Setting the async_dagbag_loader flag to True is not supported while DAG serialization is enabled. Enabling DAG serialization disables all Airflow web server plugins, as they could risk the security of the VPC network where Cloud Composer is deployed. This doesn't impact the behaviour of scheduler or worker plugins, including Airflow operators and sensors. When Cloud Composer is running inside a perimeter, access to public PyPI repositories is restricted. In the Cloud Composer documentation, see Installing Python dependencies to learn how to install PyPi modules in Private IP mode.
Cloud Run	Status Preview Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name run.googleapis.com Details Additional setup for Cloud Run is required. Follow the instructions at the Cloud Run VPC Service Controls documentation page. For more information about Cloud Run, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Organization policies are not available yet. No enforcement on control plane yet.
Cloud Spanner	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name spanner.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Spanner can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Spanner, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Spanner integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Storage	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name storage.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Storage can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Storage, refer to the product documentation. Limitations When using the Requester Pays feature with a storage bucket inside a service perimeter that protects the Cloud Storage service, you cannot identify a project to pay that is outside the perimeter. The target project must be in the same perimeter as the storage bucket or in a perimeter bridge with the bucket's project. For more information about Requester Pays, see the Requester Pays use and access requirements. For projects in a service perimeter, the Cloud Storage page in the Cloud Console is not accessible if the Cloud Storage API is protected by that perimeter. If you want to grant access to the page, you must create an access level that includes either the user accounts or a public IP range that you want to allow to access the Cloud Storage API. In audit log records, the resourceName field does not identify the project that owns a bucket. The project must be discovered separately. In audit log records, the value for methodName is not always correct. We recommend that you do not filter Cloud Storage audit log records by methodName. In certain cases, Cloud Storage legacy bucket logs can be written to destinations outside of a service perimeter even when access is denied. When you attempt to use gsutil for the first time in a new project, you may be prompted to enable the storage-api.googleapis.com service. While you cannot directly protect storage-api.googleapis.com, when you protect the Cloud Storage API using a service perimeter, gsutil operations are also protected.
Cloud SQL	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name sqladmin.googleapis.com Details VPC Service Controls perimeters protect the Cloud SQL Admin API. For more information about Cloud SQL, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Service perimeters protect only the Cloud SQL Admin API. They do not protect IP-based data access to Cloud SQL instances. You need to use an organization policy constraint to restrict public IP access on Cloud SQL instances. Cloud SQL imports and exports can only perform reads and writes from a Cloud Storage bucket within the same service perimeter as the Cloud SQL replica instance. In the external server migration flow, you need to add the Cloud Storage bucket to the same service perimeter. In the key creation flow for CMEK, you need to create the key in the same service perimeter as the resources that use it. When restoring an instance from a backup, the target instance needs to reside in the same service perimeter as the backup.
Video Intelligence API	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name videointelligence.googleapis.com Details The API for Video Intelligence API can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Video Intelligence API, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Video Intelligence API integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Vision API	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name vision.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Vision API can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Vision API, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Vision API integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Container Analysis	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name containeranalysis.googleapis.com Details To use Container Analysis with VPC Service Controls, you may have to add other services to your VPC perimeter: If you are using Pub/Sub notifications with Container Analysis, add Pub/Sub to your service perimeter. If you are using the Container Scanning API, add your registry to the perimeter: Artifact Registry or Container Registry. Because the Container Scanning API is a surfaceless API that stores the results in Container Analysis, you do not need to protect the API with a service perimeter. For more information about Container Analysis, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Container Analysis integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Container Registry	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name containerregistry.googleapis.com Details In addition to protecting the Container Registry API, Container Registry can be used inside a service perimeter with GKE and Compute Engine. For more information about Container Registry, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Because it is not using the googleapis.com domain, Container Registry must be configured via Private DNS or BIND to map to the restricted VIP separately from other APIs. For more information, see Securing Container Registry in a service perimeter. In addition to the containers inside a perimeter that are available to Container Registry, the following read-only Google-managed repositories are available to all projects regardless of service perimeters: gcr.io/asci-toolchain gcr.io/cloud-airflow-releaser gcr.io/cloud-builders gcr.io/cloud-dataflow gcr.io/cloud-marketplace gcr.io/cloud-ssa gcr.io/cloudsql-docker gcr.io/config-management-release gcr.io/foundry-dev gcr.io/fn-img gcr.io/gke-node-images gcr.io/gke-release gcr.io/google-containers gcr.io/kubeflow gcr.io/kubeflow-images-public gcr.io/kubernetes-helm gcr.io/istio-release gcr.io/ml-pipeline gcr.io/projectcalico-org gcr.io/rbe-containers gcr.io/rbe-windows-test-images gcr.io/speckle-umbrella gcr.io/stackdriver-agents gcr.io/tensorflow gke.gcr.io k8s.gcr.io mirror.gcr.io In all cases, the multi-regional versions of these repositories are also available.
Google Kubernetes Engine	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name container.googleapis.com, gkeconnect.googleapis.com, gkehub.googleapis.com Details The API for Google Kubernetes Engine can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Google Kubernetes Engine, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Only private clusters can be protected using VPC Service Controls. Clusters with public IP addresses are not supported by VPC Service Controls.
Resource Manager	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com beta Details The API for Resource Manager can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Resource Manager, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The only Resource Manager API methods that are protected are v1 project.setIAMPolicy and v1beta1 project.setIAMPolicy.
Cloud Logging	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name logging.googleapis.com Details Because VPC Service Controls doesn't support Folder and Organization resources, Folder-level and Organization-level logs are not protected by VPC Service Controls. For more information, refer to the known service limitations. For more information about Cloud Logging, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Aggregated export sinks (folder or organization sinks where includeChildren is true) can access data from projects inside a service perimeter. We recommend that IAM is used to manage Logging permissions at the folder and organization level. Because VPC Service Controls does not currently support folder and organization resources, log exports of folder-level and organization-level logs (including aggregate logs) do not support service perimeters. We recommend that IAM is used to restrict exports to the service accounts required to interact with the perimeter-protected services. To set up an organization or folder log export to a resource protected by a service perimeter, you must add an ingress rule in the destination service perimeter that allows the service account for that log sink to access the perimeter. This is not necessary for project-level log exports. For more information, refer to the following pages: Ingress and egress rules Managing service perimeters Overview of Logs Exports
Cloud Monitoring	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name monitoring.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Monitoring can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Monitoring, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Notification channels, alerting policies, and custom metrics can be used together to exfiltrate data/metadata. As of today, a user of Monitoring can set up a notification channel that points to an entity outside of the organization e.g. "[e-mail]". The user then sets up custom metrics and corresponding alert policies that utilize the notification channel. As a result, by manipulating the custom metrics, the user can trigger alerts and send alert firing notifications, exfiltrating sensitive data to [e-mail], outside of the VPC Service Controls perimeter. Any Compute Engine or AWS VMs with the Monitoring Agent installed must be inside the VPC Service Controls perimeter or agent metric writes will fail. Any GKE Pods must be inside the VPC Service Controls perimeter or GKE Monitoring will not work. When querying metrics for a metrics scope, only the VPC Service Controls perimeter of the scoping project for the metric scope is considered. The perimeters of the individual monitored projects in the metrics scope aren't considered. A project can only be added as a monitored project to an existing metrics scope if that project is in the same VPC Service Controls perimeter as the metrics scope's scoping project. To access Monitoring in the Cloud Console for a host project that is protected by a service perimeter, use an ingress rule.
Cloud Profiler	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudprofiler.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Profiler can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Profiler, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Profiler integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Trace	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudtrace.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Trace can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Trace, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Trace integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud TPU	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name tpu.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud TPU can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud TPU, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud TPU integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Natural Language API	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name language.googleapis.com Details The API for Natural Language API can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Natural Language API, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Natural Language API integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Asset API	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name cloudasset.googleapis.com Details Because VPC Service Controls doesn't support Folder and Organization resources, access to assets via Cloud Asset API at the Folder or Organization level is not protected by VPC Service Controls. For more information, refer to the known service limitations. For more information about Cloud Asset API, refer to the product documentation. Limitations When calling Cloud Asset API at the Folder or Organization level, data from projects inside a service perimeter that belongs to the folder or organization can still be accessed. We recommend that IAM is used to manage Cloud Asset Inventory permissions at the folder and organization level.
Speech-to-Text	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name speech.googleapis.com Details The API for Speech-to-Text can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Speech-to-Text, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Speech-to-Text integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Text-to-Speech	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name texttospeech.googleapis.com Details The API for Text-to-Speech can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Text-to-Speech, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Text-to-Speech integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Translation	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name translate.googleapis.com Details The API for Translation can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Translation, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Translation integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Transcoder API	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name transcoder.googleapis.com beta Details The API for Transcoder API can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Transcoder API, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Transcoder API integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Access Approval	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name accessapproval.googleapis.com beta Details The API for Access Approval can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Access Approval, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Access Approval integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Cloud Healthcare API	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name healthcare.googleapis.com Details The API for Cloud Healthcare API can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Cloud Healthcare API, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Cloud Healthcare API integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Storage Transfer Service	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name storagetransfer.googleapis.com Details We recommend placing your STS project within the same service perimeter as your Cloud Storage resources. This protects both your transfer and your Cloud Storage resources. Storage Transfer Service also supports scenarios where the Storage Transfer Service project is not in the same perimeter as your Cloud Storage buckets, using either a perimeter bridge or access levels. For setup information, see Using Storage Transfer Service with VPC Service Controls Transfer service for on-premises data During Beta, Transfer service for on-premises data (Transfer for on-premises) supports VPC Service Controls for transfer payloads only. This includes scenarios where Transfer for on-premises agents are added to an ingress rule or an access level that allows them to access resources in the perimeter, or when Transfer for on-premises agents are within a perimeter shared with target Cloud Storage buckets and Transfer service for on-premises data jobs. For more information, see Using Transfer for on-premises with VPC Service Controls. File metadata, such as object names, are not guaranteed to stay within the perimeter. For more information, see VPC Service Controls and metadata. For more information about Storage Transfer Service, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Transfer service for on-premises data doesn't offer an API, and therefore does not support API-related features in VPC Service Controls.
Service Control	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name servicecontrol.googleapis.com Details The API for Service Control can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Service Control, refer to the product documentation. Limitations When you call the Service Control API from a VPC network in a service perimeter with Service Control restricted, you can't use the Service Control report method to report billing and analytics metrics.
Memorystore for Redis	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name redis.googleapis.com Details The API for Memorystore for Redis can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Memorystore for Redis, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Service perimeters protect only the Memorystore for Redis API. Perimeters do not protect normal data access on Memorystore for Redis instances within the same network. If the Cloud Storage API is also protected, then Memorystore for Redis import and export operations can only read and write to a Cloud Storage bucket within the same service perimeter as the Memorystore for Redis instance. If you use both Shared VPC and VPC Service Controls, you must have the host project that provides the network and the service project that contains the Redis instance inside the same perimeter in order for Redis requests to succeed. At any time, separating the host project and service project with a perimeter can cause a Redis instance failure, in addition to blocked requests. For more information, see Memorystore for Redis configuration requirements.
Memorystore for Memcached	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name memcache.googleapis.com Details The API for Memorystore for Memcached can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Memorystore for Memcached, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Service perimeters protect only the Memorystore for Memcached API. Perimeters do not protect normal data access on Memorystore for Memcached instances within the same network.
Service Directory	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name servicedirectory.googleapis.com beta Details The API for Service Directory can be protected by VPC Service Controls and the product can be used normally inside service perimeters. For more information about Service Directory, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The Service Directory integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
Transfer Appliance	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? No. The API for Transfer Appliance cannot be protected by service perimeters. However, Transfer Appliance can be used normally in projects inside a perimeter. Details Transfer Appliance is fully supported for projects using VPC Service Controls. Transfer Appliance doesn't offer an API, and therefore does not support API-related features in VPC Service Controls. For more information about Transfer Appliance, refer to the product documentation. Limitations When Cloud Storage is protected by VPC Service Controls, the Cloud KMS key you share with the Transfer Appliance Team must be within the same project as the destination Cloud Storage bucket.
OS Login	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name oslogin.googleapis.com Details You can call the OS Login API from within VPC Service Controls perimeters. To manage OS Login from within VPC Service Controls perimeters, set up OS Login. SSH connections to VM instances are not protected by VPC Service Controls. For more information about OS Login, refer to the product documentation. Limitations The OS Login integration with VPC Service Controls has no known limitations.
VM Manager	Status GA. This product integration is fully supported by VPC Service Controls. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name osconfig.googleapis.com Details You can call the OS Config API from within VPC Service Controls perimeters. To use VM Manager from within VPC Service Controls perimeters, set up VM Manager. For more information about VM Manager, refer to the product documentation. Limitations To fully protect VM Manager, you must include all of the following APIs in your perimeter: OS Config API (osconfig.googleapis.com) Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com) Container Analysis API (containeranalysis.googleapis.com)
Ads Data Hub	Status Beta. This product integration is ready for broader testing and use, but is not fully supported for production environments. Protect with perimeters? Yes. You can configure your perimeters to protect this service. Service name adsdatahub.googleapis.com Details For more information about Ads Data Hub, refer to the product documentation. Limitations Certain Ads Data Hub features (such as custom audience activation, custom bidding, and LiveRamp match tables) require certain user data to be exported outside of the VPC Service Controls perimeter. If Ads Data Hub is added as a restricted service, it will bypass VPC Service Controls policies for these features in order to retain their functionality. All dependent services must be included as allowed services in the same VPC Service Controls perimeter. For example, since Ads Data Hub relies on BigQuery, BigQuery must also be added. In general, VPC Service Controls best practices recommend including all services in the perimeter, i.e. “restricting all services”. Customers with multi-tier Ads Data Hub account structures (such as agencies with subsidiaries) should have all of their admin projects in the same perimeter. For simplicity, Ads Data Hub recommends that customers with multi-tier account structures restrict their admin projects to the same Google Cloud organization.

For more information, read about supported and unsupported services.

Restricted VIP supported services

The restricted virtual IP (VIP) provides a way for VMs that are inside a service perimeter to make calls to Google Cloud services without exposing the requests to the internet. For a complete list of the services available on the restricted VIP, see Services supported by the restricted VIP.

Unsupported services

Warning: While it may be possible to enable unsupported services to access the data of supported products and services, we recommend that you do not. Unexpected issues might occur when attempting to access a supported service using an unsupported service, especially within the same project.

Unsupported services may not function at all when enabled in a project protected by VPC Service Controls, especially when low-level storage services like Cloud Storage or Pub/Sub are restricted. We recommend deploying unsupported services in projects outside perimeters. To allow these services to access data in resources within a perimeter, create an access level that includes the service account for that service and apply it to perimeters as needed.

Attempting to restrict an unsupported service using the gcloud command-line tool or the Access Context Manager API will result in an error.

Cross-project access to data of supported services will be blocked by VPC Service Controls. Additionally, the restricted VIP can be used to block the ability of workloads to call unsupported services.

Other known limitations

This section describes known limitations with certain Google Cloud services, products, and interfaces that can be encountered when using VPC Service Controls.

For limitations with products that are supported by VPC Service Controls, refer to the Supported Products table.

For more information on resolving issues with VPC Service Controls, refer to the Troubleshooting page.

AutoML API

• AutoML Vision, AutoML Natural Language, AutoML Translation, AutoML Tables beta and AutoML Video Intelligence beta all use the AutoML API.

  When you use a service perimeter to protect automl.googleapis.com, access to all of the AutoML products that are integrated with VPC Service Controls and used inside the perimeter are impacted. You must configure your VPC Service Controls perimeter for all integrated AutoML products that are used inside that perimeter.

  To fully protect the AutoML API, include all of the following APIs in your perimeter:

  • AutoML API (automl.googleapis.com)
  • Cloud Storage API (storage.googleapis.com)
  • Compute Engine API (compute.googleapis.com)
  • BigQuery API (bigquery.googleapis.com)

App Engine

• App Engine (both standard environment and flexible environment) is not supported by VPC Service Controls. Do not include App Engine projects in service perimeters.

  However, it is possible to allow App Engine apps created in projects outside service perimeters to read and write data to protected services inside perimeters. To allow your app to access the data of protected services, create an access level that includes the project's App Engine service account. This does not enable App Engine to be used inside service perimeters.

Client libraries

• The Java and Python client libraries for all supported services are fully supported for access using the restricted VIP. Support for others language is at Alpha stage and should be used for testing purposes only.

• Clients must use client libraries that have been updated as of November 1, 2018 or later.

• Service account keys or OAuth2 client metadata used by clients must be updated as of November 1, 2018 or later. Older clients using the token endpoint must change to the endpoint specified in newer key material/client metadata.

Cloud Billing

• To allow Cloud Billing export to a Cloud Storage bucket or BigQuery instance in a project protected by a service perimeter, the user that is configuring the export should be added temporarily to an access level for the perimeter.

Cloud Build

• Using Cloud Build within a VPC Service Controls perimeter is only available to restricted users.

  Additionally, it is possible to allow Cloud Build in projects outside service perimeters to read and write data to protected services inside perimeters. To allow Cloud Build to access the data of protected services, create an access level that includes the project's Cloud Build service account. This does not enable Cloud Build to be used inside service perimeters.

Cloud Deployment Manager

• Deployment Manager is not supported by VPC Service Controls. Users may be able to call into services that are compliant with VPC Service Controls, but they should not rely on this as it may break in the future.

• As a workaround, you can add the Deployment Manager service account ([e-mail]) to the access levels to allow calls to APIs protected by VPC Service Controls.

Cloud Shell

• Cloud Shell is not supported. It is treated as outside of service perimeters and denied access to data protected by VPC Service Controls.

Google Cloud Console

• Because the Cloud Console is only accessible over the internet, it is treated as outside of service perimeters. When you apply a service perimeter, the Cloud Console interface for the services that you protected may become partially or fully inaccessible. For example, if you protected Logging with the perimeter, you will not be able to access the Logging interface in the Cloud Console.

  To allow access from the Cloud Console to resources protected by a perimeter, you need to create an access level for a public IP range that includes the machines of users who want to use the Cloud Console with protected APIs. For example, you could add the public IP range of the NAT gateway of your private network to an access level, and then assign that access level to the service perimeter.

  If you want to limit Cloud Console access to the perimeter to only a specific set of users, you can also add those users to an access level. In that case, only the specified users would be able to access the Cloud Console.