Difference between google managed certificates and lets encrypt

Question

I am trying to secure my domain which is hosted in gcp.I am thinking of using a google managed certificate but it will be costly since i will have to use a load balancer as to let's encrypt which is inside my vm instance. Is there a significant difference between them? Any thoughts would be appreciated

I am still on the building phase.

Answer 1

Depends on your requirement! You can, indeed, deploy your own certificate on your VM to avoid the use of a load balancer.

But the value added of a load balancer is not only managing the certificate. Especially, think about your production. Will you have only one VM? Or do you want high availability and have a pool of VM?

If you have a pool of VM, you will need a load balancer to dispatch the traffic across them.

Same idea if you need a WAF (Cloud Armor), rate limiting and others. Load balancer will, soon or later, come in the picture.

Answer 2

Using Cloud loadbalancer would be the better option as it is much more secured and efficient if you think about the overall value. Here is a good read about cloud load balancing since you are on the building phase. [1]

[1] https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificates/google-managed-certs