Virtual Private Cloud documentation

Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides networking functionality to Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instances, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) containers, and serverless workloads. VPC provides networking for your cloud-based services that is global, scalable, and flexible.

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