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Google Cloud whitepapers

Written by Googlers, independent analysts, customers, and partners, these whitepapers explain the technology underlying our products and services or examine topics such as security, architecture, and data governance.
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AI and ML

Google Cloud’s AI Adoption Framework

Adopt AI with confidence. Assess where you are in the journey and leverage a structure for building scalable AI capabilities.

Practitioners guide to MLOps: A framework for continuous delivery and automation of machine learning

Written for ML leaders and architects who want to understand MLOps in theory and practice.

Improving the Speed and Efficiency of AI-Enabled Damage Assessment in Insurance

Learn how semi-supervised ML on TPUs can significantly reduce model training time and cost.

Cloud basics

Google’s guide to innovation: How to unlock strategy, resources, and technology

Learn how Google developed a work culture that fosters creative thinking.

Increasing business value with better IT operations: A guide to SRE

Learn what SRE is and how it can improve the way you do IT operations. Then get an introduction to what Google Cloud offers to help you implement SRE.

SAP on Google Cloud: High availability

Learn how to architect SAP systems in Google Cloud for high availability.

The Google Cloud Adoption Framework

Is your organization ready for the cloud? Use Google’s cloud adoption framework as a guide to find out.

Data analytics

Build a modern, unified analytics data platform with Google Cloud

This paper discusses the decision points necessary in creating a modern, unified analytics data platform built on Google Cloud.

Building a data lakehouse on Google Cloud

Discuss the new data lakehouse architecture and its key benefits.

Building a unified analytics data platform

Learn about the elements of a unified analytics data platform built on Google Cloud and key differences in platform architectures.

Enhance your investment research with Google Cloud

Four keys to discovering valuable insights at scale.

SAP Analytics on BigQuery with Qlik Replicate

Learn how to extract SAP data into BigQuery.

Transforming options market data with the Dataflow SDK

This paper introduces some of the main concepts behind building and running applications that use Cloud Dataflow.

What type of data processing organization are you?

Data processing techniques depending on organization type.

Building a data mesh on Google Cloud

How to build a data mesh architecture on Google Cloud.

Governance and cost management

Unlock the Value of Cloud FinOps with a New Operating Model

Learn how your organization can establish strong financial governance and create a cost-conscious culture by adopting a new operating model.

A guide to financial governance in the cloud

Review the importance of financial governance controls and the role these controls play in increasing the predictability of cloud costs.

Data deletion on Google Cloud

This paper gives an overview of the secure process that occurs when you delete your customer data stored in Google Cloud.

Data governance: Principles for securing and managing logs

Learn strategies for data governance and security in the four stages of logs data.

Getting started with FinOps on Google Cloud

Actionable set of steps to help your organization maximize your cloud investment.

IDC: Business value of Google Cloud Platform

Learn how Google Cloud helps SMEs accelerate business growth through increased productivity and scalability while achieving greater cost efficiencies.

Maximize business value with cloud FinOps

An operational and cultural framework to drive financial accountability and accelerate business value through cloud transformation.

Overcoming logs data compliance challenges with Google Cloud Logging

Guidance to help you keep logs data compliant with regional and industry regulations.

Principles and best practices for data governance in the cloud

Learn about the benefits, frameworks, and how you can operationalize cloud-based data governance within your organization.

SAP on Google Cloud: Backup strategies and solutions

Learn which options are available to back up SAP systems in Google Cloud.

Taking the cloud-native approach with microservices

This paper covers foundational elements of transitioning a monolithic, software application architecture to microservices.

Hybrid and multicloud

5 ways Google can help you succeed in the hybrid and multicloud world

Learn more about the strengths which make Google a great hybrid and multicloud partner.

Kubernetes: Your hybrid cloud strategy

This paper discusses how Kubernetes provides a holistic hybrid cloud solution that simplifies your deployment, management, and operational concerns.

Industry

CPG Digital Transformation: where to invest now

Find out what use cases for cloud, AI/ML and analytics drive the most P&L impact.

Deloitte Access Economics FSI 2021 report

Embracing cloud transformation: benefits for the financial services industry in Australia and New Zealand.

ESG technical whitepaper: Google Cloud for ecommerce

Learn how to overcome the challenges of increasing customer experience demands.

From weeks to days: a faster home loan journey

Research from Google on the home loan experience as well as insights on how the process can be made more simple and all about the borrower.

Google Cloud industries: The impact of COVID-19 on manufacturers

Learn about the latest trends affecting manufacturers, from the pandemic's impact on operations to subsequent changing technology use.

How data is driving resilient and sustainable supply chains

Discover the processes to address in your supply chain transformation journey.

How to be a data-driven retailer

Your guide to getting smarter with data including success stories & practical next steps.

Interpretable sequence learning for COVID-19 forecasting

A novel approach that integrates machine learning into compartmental disease modeling to predict the progression of COVID-19.

Personalizing media for global digital audiences

Create new business insights and engage your audiences with data and AI. Download now.

Scaling to build the Consolidated Audit Trail: A financial services application of Cloud Bigtable

We consider Bigtable in the context of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and perform experiments measuring the speed and scalability of Bigtable.

The future of market data: Distribution and consumption through cloud and AI

Research reveals trending innovation areas for market data.

The startup's guide to Google Cloud

Learn why top startups chose to build their businesses with Google Cloud.

Improving the Speed and Efficiency of AI-Enabled Damage Assessment in Insurance

Learn how semi-supervised ML on TPUs can significantly reduce model training time and cost.

Migration

Accelerating the journey to the cloud with a product mindset

Overhaul how you approach business operations to accelerate your migration to cloud.

Building a large-scale migration program with Google Cloud

Google Cloud’s four-stage approach to migration and how to create a team that drives large-scale migration of enterprise applications to the cloud.

CIO's guide to application migration

This guide covers technical requirements, business goals, and cloud technology for you to consider for your migration.

How to put your company on a path to successful cloud migration

An outline of the key things to consider when crafting your migration journey.

Managing change in the cloud

This Google Cloud Adoption Framework whitepaper explores cloud migration and helping your people thrive in the cloud.

Migrate workloads to the public cloud: an essential guide & checklist

Learn how to properly navigate the four key phases of your cloud migration.

Migrating to Cloud Storage Nearline from Amazon Glacier

Best practices for migrating data from Amazon Glacier to Cloud Storage Nearline, a low-cost storage class for archival workloads.

.NET apps: How to lift and shift a line-of-business application onto Google Cloud

Go step by step through moving an ASP.NET Windows application to Google Cloud.

SAP on Google Cloud: Migration strategies

Learn the most common migration strategies, use cases, and options to use when you move SAP systems to Google Cloud.

Up, out, or both? How to evaluate your cloud migration options

Migration frameworks built based on conversations with CIOs, CTOs, and technical staff.

Modernization

API management and service mesh: better together

Using service mesh and API management as complementary components for successful application modernization.

CIO's guide to application modernization

A series of approaches to app modernization, from identifying needs and developing a road map, to methods of identifying and effecting meaningful change.

Data center transformation with Google

Craft your strategy to get out of the data center and into public cloud. This guide helps you design a successful modernization journey.

Forrester's Total Economic Impact of Cloud Run

This report outlines cost savings and business benefits enabled by Cloud Run.

IDC Whitepaper: Modernize Applications with Open Source Software on Google Cloud

How using open source software on Google Cloud brings better performance, costs, and more.

.NET apps: Modernizing your .NET application for Google Cloud

This paper explores the process of taking an on-premises monolithic .NET application and making it cloud ready.

.NET apps: Running your modern .NET application on Kubernetes

This paper covers .NET application modernization, including containerization and orchestration concepts.

Security

Best practices for DDoS protection and mitigation on Google Cloud

Best practices for protecting against and mitigating such DDoS attacks for your Google Cloud deployment.

BeyondProd

Learn how Google protects its microservices with an initiative called BeyondProd.

Binary Authorization for Borg

Learn how Binary Authorization for Borg minimizes insider risk by ensuring proper reviews and authorization.

Cloud Key Management Service deep dive

Learn architectural details about the Cloud KMS platform.

Data governance: Principles for securing and managing logs

Learn strategies for data governance and security in the four stages of logs data.

Data incident response process

This paper provides a detailed understanding of Google's data incident response process.

Encryption at rest in Google Cloud

This paper describes Google's approach to encryption at rest for the Google Cloud and how Google uses it to keep your information more secure.

Encryption in transit in Google Cloud

Learn how Google uses encryption to protect your data, with more detail on encryption in transit for Google Cloud and G Suite.

Google Cloud security foundations guide

Curated, opinionated guidance and accompanying automation that helps you build a secure starting point for your Google Cloud deployment.

Google security whitepaper

This paper outlines Google's approach to security and compliance for Google Cloud, our suite of public cloud products and services.

Modern password security for system designers

This guide describes and models modern password guidance and recommendations for the designers and engineers who create secure online applications.

Modern password security for users

This guide describes password guidance and recommendations for users of online applications that require authentication.

SAP on Google Cloud: Disaster recovery strategies

This document considers not just the criticality of individual disaster recovery solutions but also the different components of a typical SAP system.

Security features of Connect

This paper discusses the security measures built into Connect for customers interested in ensuring the security of their GKE on-premises user clusters.

Storage

Converging architectures: Bringing data lakes and data warehouses together

Explore the implications of the convergence of data lakes and data warehouses.

Migrating to Cloud Storage Nearline from Amazon Glacier

Best practices for migrating data from Amazon Glacier to Cloud Storage Nearline, a low-cost storage class for archival workloads.

Optimizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting VACUUM operations of PostgreSQL

The fundamentals of the VACUUM operation in PostgreSQL databases.

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