Google Cloud DNS Cheat Sheet

• Cloud DNS is Google’s infrastructure for production quality and high-volume authoritative DNS serving.

Features

• Authoritative DNS Lookup
• Cloud DNS translates requests for domain names like www.google.com into IP addresses like 74.125.29.101.
• Manage your DNS records for your domain using Google Cloud Console.
• Create managed zones for your project so you can add, edit, and delete DNS records.
• You can control permissions at a project level and monitor your changes as they propagate to DNS name servers.
• Can perform DNS Forwarding for hybrid architecture.

• You can create Private DNS zones that provide an easy-to-manage internal DNS solution for your private Google Cloud networks to help you eliminate the need to provision and manage additional software and resources.
• Private DNS logs records on queries received from virtual machines and inbound forwarding flows within your networks.
• DNS Armor (Preview): Cloud-native DNS security service that helps detect and mitigate domain name system risks.
• Cloud Domains: Register and manage domains directly in Google Cloud with tight integration to Cloud DNS. Domain registration fees for common domains like .com and .net are competitively priced.
• Container-native DNS: Native integration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) providing in-cluster Service DNS resolution with Cloud DNS. Enables high-throughput, scalable DNS resolution for every GKE node.
• DNS peering: Share DNS data between networks. Configure all or part of the DNS namespace to be sent from one network to another, respecting all DNS configuration in the peered network.
• DNSSEC support: Protect your domains from spoofing and cache poisoning attacks. Enable or disable managed DNSSEC when creating a public zone.
• Cloud IAM integration: Secure domain management with full control and visibility for domain resources.
• Fast anycast name servers: Google’s global network of anycast name servers serves DNS zones from redundant locations worldwide for high availability and lower latency.
• Automatic scaling: Handles large numbers of DNS zones and records. Create and update millions of DNS records reliably. Name servers automatically scale to handle query volume.
• End-to-end domain management: Use Cloud Domains to register and manage domains, automatically setting up DNS zones.
• View DNS logs in Cloud Logging and export logs to any destination that Cloud Logging export supports.

Pricing

Cloud DNS pricing is based on:

• Managed zones: Charges apply per zone per month for public, private, and forwarding zones.
• DNS queries: Charges apply based on the number of queries against your zones.
• Domain registration: Fees for registering and renewing domains through Cloud Domains vary by domain type (e.g., .com, .net).

For current pricing details, refer to the official Google Cloud DNS pricing page

Google Cloud DNS Cheat Sheet Reference:

https://cloud.google.com/dns