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Key benefits
Overview

Top reasons businesses choose us.
Multicloud

Run your apps wherever you need them.
Trust and security

Keep your data secure and compliant.
Global infrastructure

Build on the same infrastructure as Google.

Data analytics

Make smarter decisions with unified data.
Open cloud

Scale with open, flexible technology.
Sustainability

Run on the cleanest cloud in the industry.
Productivity and collaboration

Connect your teams with AI-powered apps.

Resources
Events

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Blog

Read our latest product news and stories.
Customer stories

Explore case studies and videos.
Analyst reports

Read what industry analysts say about us.

Solutions

Industry Solutions

Reduce cost, increase operational agility, and capture new market opportunities.

Retail

Analytics and collaboration tools for the retail value chain.

Consumer Packaged Goods

Solutions for CPG digital transformation and brand growth.

Financial Services

Computing, data management, and analytics tools for financial services.

Healthcare and Life Sciences

Health-specific solutions to enhance the patient experience.

Media and Entertainment

Solutions for content production and distribution operations.

Telecommunications

Hybrid and multi-cloud services to deploy and monetize 5G.

Gaming

AI-driven solutions to build and scale games faster.

Manufacturing

Migration and AI tools to optimize the manufacturing value chain.

Supply Chain and Logistics

Digital supply chain solutions built in the cloud.

Government

Data storage, AI, and analytics solutions for government agencies.

Education

Teaching tools to provide more engaging learning experiences.

Small and Medium Business

Explore SMB solutions for web hosting, app development, AI, analytics, and more.

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Application Modernization

Develop and run applications anywhere, using cloud-native technologies like containers, serverless, and service mesh.

Hybrid and Multi-cloud Application Platform

Platform for modernizing legacy apps and building new apps.

Cloud-Native App Development

End-to-end solution for building, deploying, and managing apps.

API Management

Accelerate application design and development with an API-first approach.

Serverless Solutions

Fully managed environment for developing, deploying and scaling apps.

DevOps

Processes and resources for implementing DevOps in your org.

Continuous Delivery (CD)

End-to-end automation from source to production.

Continuous Integration (CI)

Fast feedback on code changes at scale.

Mainframe Modernization

Automated tools and prescriptive guidance for moving to the cloud.

Hosting

Services and infrastructure for building web apps and websites.

Artificial Intelligence

Add intelligence and efficiency to your business with AI and machine learning.

Contact Center AI

AI model for speaking with customers and assisting human agents.

Document AI

Machine learning and AI to unlock insights from your documents.

Cloud Talent Solution

AI with job search and talent acquisition capabilities.

Business Application Platform

Speed up the pace of innovation without coding, using APIs, apps, and automation.

New Business Channels Using APIs

Attract and empower an ecosystem of developers and partners.

Unlocking Legacy Applications Using APIs

Cloud services for extending and modernizing legacy apps.

Open Banking APIx

Simplify and accelerate secure delivery of open banking compliant APIs.

Databases

Migrate and manage enterprise data with security, reliability, high availability, and fully managed data services.

Database Migration

Guides and tools to simplify your database migration life cycle.

Database Modernization

Upgrades to modernize your operational database infrastructure.

Google Cloud Databases

Database services to migrate, manage, and modernize data.

Migrate Oracle workloads to Google Cloud

Rehost, replatform, rewrite your Oracle workloads.

Open Source Databases

Fully managed open source databases with enterprise-grade support.

SQL Server on Google Cloud

Options for running SQL Server virtual machines on Google Cloud.

Digital Transformation
Accelerate business recovery and ensure a better future with solutions that enable hybrid and multi-cloud, generate intelligent insights, and keep your workers connected.

Business Continuity

Proactively plan and prioritize workloads.

Digital Innovation

Reimagine your operations and unlock new opportunities.

Operational Efficiency

Prioritize investments and optimize costs.

COVID-19 Solutions

Get work done more safely and securely.

COVID-19 Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

How Google is helping healthcare meet extraordinary challenges.

Infrastructure Modernization

Migrate quickly with solutions for SAP, VMware, Windows, Oracle, and other workloads.

Application Migration

Discovery and analysis tools for moving to the cloud.

SAP on Google Cloud

Certifications for running SAP applications and SAP HANA.

High Performance Computing

Compute, storage, and networking options to support any workload.

Windows on Google Cloud

Tools and partners for running Windows workloads.

Data Center Migration

Migration solutions for VMs, apps, databases, and more.

Active Assist

Automatic cloud resource optimization and increased security.

Virtual Desktops

Remote work solutions for desktops and applications (VDI & DaaS).

Rapid Assessment & Migration Program (RAMP)

End-to-end migration program to simplify your path to the cloud.

Backup and Disaster Recovery

Ensure your business continuity needs are met.

Productivity and Collaboration

Change the way teams work with solutions designed for humans and built for impact.

Google Workspace

Collaboration and productivity tools for enterprises.

Google Workspace Essentials

Secure video meetings and modern collaboration for teams.

Cloud Identity

Unified platform for IT admins to manage user devices and apps.

Chrome Enterprise

Chrome OS, Chrome Browser, and Chrome devices built for business.

Cloud Search

Enterprise search for employees to quickly find company information.

Security

Detect, investigate, and respond to online threats to help protect your business.

Security Analytics and Operations

Solution for analyzing petabytes of security telemetry.

Web App and API Protection

Threat and fraud protection for your web applications and APIs.

Smart Analytics

Generate instant insights from data at any scale with a serverless, fully managed analytics platform that significantly simplifies analytics.

Data Warehouse Modernization

Data warehouse to jumpstart your migration and unlock insights.

Stream Analytics

Insights from ingesting, processing, and analyzing event streams.

Marketing Analytics

Solutions for collecting, analyzing, and activating customer data.

Data Lake Modernization

Services for building and modernizing your data lake.

Business Intelligence

Solutions for modernizing your BI stack and creating rich data experiences.

Datasets

Data from Google, public, and commercial providers to enrich your analytics and AI initiatives.

Products

Featured Products

Compute Engine

Virtual machines running in Google’s data center.

Cloud Storage

Object storage that’s secure, durable, and scalable.

Cloud SDK

Command-line tools and libraries for Google Cloud.

Cloud SQL

Relational database services for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL server.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Managed environment for running containerized apps.

BigQuery

Data warehouse for business agility and insights.

Cloud CDN

Content delivery network for delivering web and video.

Dataflow

Streaming analytics for stream and batch processing.

Operations

Monitoring, logging, and application performance suite.

Cloud Run

Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.

Anthos

Platform for modernizing existing apps and building new ones.

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AI and Machine Learning

Vertex AI

Unified ML Platform for training, hosting, and managing ML models.

Speech-to-Text

Speech recognition and transcription supporting 125 languages.

Vision AI

Custom and pre-trained models to detect emotion, text, more.

Text-to-Speech

Speech synthesis in 220+ voices and 40+ languages.

Cloud Translation

Language detection, translation, and glossary support.

Cloud Natural Language

Sentiment analysis and classification of unstructured text.

AutoML

Custom machine learning model training and development.

Video AI

Video classification and recognition using machine learning.

AI Infrastructure

Options for every business to train deep learning and machine learning models cost-effectively.

Dialogflow

Conversation applications and systems development suite for virtual agents.

AutoML Tables

Service for training ML models with structured data.

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API Management

Apigee API Management

Manage the full life cycle of APIs anywhere with visibility and control.

Cloud Endpoints

Deployment and development management for APIs on Google Cloud.

Cloud Healthcare API

Solution to bridge existing care systems and apps on Google Cloud.

AppSheet

No-code development platform to build and extend applications.

API Gateway

Develop, deploy, secure, and manage APIs with a fully managed gateway.

Compute

Compute Engine

Virtual machines running in Google’s data center.

App Engine

Serverless application platform for apps and back ends.

Cloud GPUs

GPUs for ML, scientific computing, and 3D visualization.

Migrate for Compute Engine

Server and virtual machine migration to Compute Engine.

Preemptible VMs

Compute instances for batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads.

Shielded VMs

Reinforced virtual machines on Google Cloud.

Sole-Tenant Nodes

Dedicated hardware for compliance, licensing, and management.

Bare Metal

Infrastructure to run specialized workloads on Google Cloud.

Recommender

Usage recommendations for Google Cloud products and services.

VMware Engine

Fully managed, native VMware Cloud Foundation software stack.

Cloud Run

Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.

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Containers

Google Kubernetes Engine

Managed environment for running containerized apps.

Container Registry

Registry for storing, managing, and securing Docker images.

Container Security

Container environment security for each stage of the life cycle.

Cloud Build

Solution for running build steps in a Docker container.

Deep Learning Containers

Containers with data science frameworks, libraries, and tools.

Kubernetes Applications

Containerized apps with prebuilt deployment and unified billing.

Artifact Registry

Package manager for build artifacts and dependencies.

Knative

Components to create Kubernetes-native cloud-based software.

Cloud Run

Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.

Cloud Code

IDE support to write, run, and debug Kubernetes applications.

Data Analytics

BigQuery

Data warehouse for business agility and insights.

Looker

Platform for BI, data applications, and embedded analytics.

Dataflow

Streaming analytics for stream and batch processing.

Pub/Sub

Messaging service for event ingestion and delivery.

Dataproc

Service for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop clusters.

Cloud Data Fusion

Data integration for building and managing data pipelines.

Cloud Composer

Workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow.

Dataprep

Service to prepare data for analysis and machine learning.

Dataplex

Intelligent data fabric for unifying data management across silos.

Data Catalog

Metadata service for discovering, understanding, and managing data.

Analytics Hub

Service for securely and efficiently exchanging data analytics assets.

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Databases

Cloud Bigtable

Cloud-native wide-column database for large scale, low-latency workloads.

Firestore

Cloud-native document database for building rich mobile, web, and IoT apps.

Memorystore

In-memory database for managed Redis and Memcached.

Cloud Spanner

Cloud-native relational database with unlimited scale and 99.999% availability.

Cloud SQL

Fully managed database for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

Database Migration Service

Serverless, minimal downtime migrations to Cloud SQL.

Bare Metal

Infrastructure to run specialized workloads on Google Cloud.

Firebase Realtime Database

NoSQL database for storing and syncing data in real time.

Datastream

Serverless change data capture and replication service.

Developer Tools

Artifact Registry

Universal package manager for build artifacts and dependencies.

Cloud Build

Continuous integration and continuous delivery platform.

Cloud Code

IDE support to write, run, and debug Kubernetes applications.

Cloud Deployment Manager

Service for creating and managing Google Cloud resources.

Cloud SDK

Command line tools and libraries for Google Cloud.

Cloud Scheduler

Cron job scheduler for task automation and management.

Cloud Source Repositories

Private Git repository to store, manage, and track code.

Cloud Tasks

Task management service for asynchronous task execution.

Container Registry

Private Docker storage for container images on Google Cloud.

Tekton

Kubernetes-native resources for declaring CI/CD pipelines.

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Healthcare and Life Sciences

Apigee Healthcare APIx

FHIR API-based digital service production.

Cloud Healthcare API

Solution for bridging existing care systems and apps on Google Cloud.

Cloud Life Sciences

Tools for managing, processing, and transforming biomedical data.

Healthcare Natural Language AI

Real-time insights from unstructured medical text.

Hybrid and Multicloud

Anthos

Platform for modernizing existing apps and building new ones.

Looker

Platform for BI, data applications, and embedded analytics.

Cloud Run for Anthos

Integration that provides a serverless development platform on GKE.

Google Cloud Marketplace for Anthos

Containerized apps with prebuilt deployment and unified billing.

Migrate for Anthos

Tool to move workloads and existing applications to GKE.

Operations

Monitoring, logging, and application performance suite.

Cloud Build

Service for executing builds on Google Cloud infrastructure.

Traffic Director

Traffic control pane and management for open service mesh.

Apigee API Management

API management, development, and security platform.

Internet of Things

Cloud IoT Core

IoT device management, integration, and connection service.

Edge TPU

ASIC designed to run ML inference and AI at the edge.

Management Tools

Cloud Shell

Interactive shell environment with a built-in command line.

Cloud Console

Web-based interface for managing and monitoring cloud apps.

Cloud Deployment Manager

Service for creating and managing Google Cloud resources.

Cloud Mobile App

App to manage Google Cloud services from your mobile device.

Cloud APIs

Programmatic interfaces for Google Cloud services.

Private Catalog

Service catalog for admins managing internal enterprise solutions.

Cost Management

Tools for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing your costs.

Intelligent Management

Tools for easily managing performance, security, and cost.

Media and Gaming

Game Servers

Game server management service running on Google Kubernetes Engine.

OpenCue

Open source render manager for visual effects and animation.

Migration

Application Migration

App migration to the cloud for low-cost refresh cycles.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service

Data import service for scheduling and moving data into BigQuery.

Cloud Foundation Toolkit

Reference templates for Deployment Manager and Terraform.

Database Migration Service

Serverless, minimal downtime migrations to Cloud SQL.

Migrate for Anthos

Components for migrating VMs into system containers on GKE.

Migrate for Compute Engine

Components for migrating VMs and physical servers to Compute Engine.

Rapid Assessment & Migration Program (RAMP)

End-to-end migration program to simplify your path to the cloud.

Transfer Appliance

Storage server for moving large volumes of data to Google Cloud.

Storage Transfer Service

Data transfers from online and on-premises sources to Cloud Storage.

VMware Engine

Migrate and run your VMware workloads natively on Google Cloud.

Networking

Cloud Armor

Security policies and defense against web and DDoS attacks.

Cloud CDN

Content delivery network for serving web and video content.

Cloud DNS

Domain name system for reliable and low-latency name lookups.

Cloud Load Balancing

Service for distributing traffic across applications and regions.

Cloud NAT

NAT service for giving private instances internet access.

Hybrid Connectivity

Connectivity options for VPN, peering, and enterprise needs.

Network Connectivity Center

Connectivity management to help simplify and scale networks.

Network Intelligence Center

Network monitoring, verification, and optimization platform.

Network Service Tiers

Cloud network options based on performance, availability, and cost.

Network Telemetry

VPC flow logs for network monitoring, forensics, and security.

Traffic Director

Traffic control pane and management for open service mesh.

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Operations

Cloud Logging

Google Cloud audit, platform, and application logs management.

Cloud Monitoring

Infrastructure and application health with rich metrics.

Error Reporting

Application error identification and analysis.

Kubernetes Engine Monitoring

GKE app development and troubleshooting.

Cloud Trace

Tracing system collecting latency data from applications.

Cloud Profiler

CPU and heap profiler for analyzing application performance.

Cloud Debugger

Real-time application state inspection and in-production debugging.

Intelligent Operations

Tools for easily optimizing performance, security, and cost.

Security and Identity

Cloud IAM

Permissions management system for Google Cloud resources.

Assured Workloads

Compliance and security controls for sensitive workloads.

Cloud Key Management

Manage encryption keys on Google Cloud.

Confidential Computing

Encrypt data in use with Confidential VMs.

Security Command Center

Platform for defending against threats to your Google Cloud assets.

Cloud Data Loss Prevention

Sensitive data inspection, classification, and redaction platform.

Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory

Hardened service running Microsoft® Active Directory (AD).

Access Transparency

Cloud provider visibility through near real-time logs.

Titan Security Key

Two-factor authentication device for user account protection.

Secret Manager

Store API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.

BeyondCorp Enterprise

Zero trust solution for secure application and resource access.

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Serverless Computing

Cloud Run

Fully managed environment for running containerized apps.

Cloud Functions

Platform for creating functions that respond to cloud events.

App Engine

Serverless application platform for apps and back ends.

Workflows

Workflow orchestration for serverless products and API services.

Storage

All Storage Products

Cloud-based storage services for your business.

Cloud Storage

Object storage that’s secure, durable, and scalable.

Filestore

File storage that is highly scalable and secure.

Persistent Disk

Block storage for virtual machine instances running on Google Cloud.

Cloud Storage for Firebase

Object storage for storing and serving user-generated content.

Local SSD

Block storage that is locally attached for high-performance needs.

Archival Storage

Data archive that offers online access speed at ultra low cost.

Storage Transfer Service

Data transfers from online and on-premises sources to Cloud Storage.

Google Workspace Essentials

Secure video meetings and modern collaboration for teams.

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Open cloud
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Cloud Life Sciences is a suite of services and tools for managing, processing, and transforming life sciences data. It also enables advanced insights and operational workflows using highly scalable and compliant infrastructure. Cloud Life Sciences includes the Cloud Life Sciences API, the open source Variant Transforms tool, and more. Learn more

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