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Google Cloud Armor

Google

Founded 2018·US·Public
4.4

Combined score

G2
4.398
Gartner
4.476

▪ Editorial verdict

Google Cloud Armor delivers the same zero-friction native cloud integration that AWS WAF and Azure Application Gateway WAF deliver for their platforms, enabled directly through the Cloud Console. Adaptive Protection, applying Google's own machine learning to automatically identify and mitigate Layer 7 DDoS patterns, reflects Google's underlying infrastructure expertise. The reCAPTCHA Enterprise integration gives it bot management context smaller vendors cannot easily replicate.

The honest limitation mirrors every hyperscaler-native WAF: value drops sharply outside the native cloud platform.

The verdict: right for organisations running workloads on Google Cloud wanting native WAF integration. Multi-cloud organisations should evaluate Cloudflare WAF or Imperva WAF instead.

Last reviewed: September 2026

G2

4.398 reviews

Gartner

4.476 reviews

PeerSpot

8.140 reviews
Gartner MQ: Not in MQ

WAF / Web Application Firewall assessment

PROTECTIONStrong
OWASP Top 10 coverage
4 / 5
Bot management
4 / 5
OPERATIONSStrong
Rule management
5 / 5
Performance & latency
4 / 5
ANALYTICSStrong
Traffic & threat analytics
4 / 5
TRUST & ECOSYSTEMStrong
CDN & network quality
4 / 5

Strongest: Rule management

Watch out for: CDN & network quality

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

●Zero deployment friction for organisations already on Google Cloud, enabled through the Cloud Console without separate infrastructure
●Adaptive Protection uses Google's own machine learning to automatically identify and mitigate Layer 7 DDoS patterns
●Strong integration with reCAPTCHA Enterprise for advanced bot detection

Watch out for

●Value proposition narrows considerably for organisations not running workloads on Google Cloud Platform
●Global edge PoP count is smaller than Cloudflare's purpose-built content delivery network
●No Gartner Magic Quadrant presence

Best for

Organisations running workloads on Google Cloud Platform wanting WAF integrated into existing infrastructure and billing.

Not suitable for: Organisations with primarily AWS, Azure, or multi-cloud infrastructure wanting a cloud-agnostic WAF.

Compliance coverage

●Essential Eight
●AU Privacy Act
●SOC 2
●HIPAA
●NIST CSF
●PCI-DSS
●GDPR
●ISO 27001
●CIS Benchmarks
○CMMC
○NIS2
○DORA

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Quick facts

Pricing modelPay-as-you-go, per policy and request volume
Pricing rangeQuote-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
Free trialYes - 30 days
Min seatsNo minimum
Deployment time< 1 day
Complexity1 / 5
Pricing transparency3 / 5
AU presenceYes
IRAP assessedNo
Open sourceProprietary

Deployment

ModelsSaaS
OS support
CloudGCP
SupportEmail, Dedicated CSM
Data residencyUS, EU, AU

Company

Google

Founded 2018 · 1000+ employees · Public

HQ: US

Part of Google Cloud revenue, not separately disclosed

Certifications

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001

Integrations

Google Cloud Load BalancingreCAPTCHA EnterpriseCloud Logging