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Google Cloud whitepapers explain the technology underlying our products and services or examine topics such as security, architecture, and total cost of ownership. The whitepapers listed here are written by Googlers, independent analysts, customers, and partners.

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.

Algorithms behind AI Explanations on Google Cloud

Learn how AI Explanations on AI Platform helps you understand your model's behavior for simpler debugging and improved decision-making.

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.

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.

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.

Cloud Key Management Service deep dive

Learn architectural details about the Cloud KMS platform.

CPG Digital Transformation: where to invest now

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

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.

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 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’s AI Adoption Framework

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

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.

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.

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

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

How to be a data-driven retailer

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

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.

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.

Kubernetes: Your hybrid cloud strategy

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

Managing change in the cloud

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

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.

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.

Optimizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting VACUUM operations of PostgreSQL

The fundamentals of the VACUUM operation in PostgreSQL databases.

.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.

.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.

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 Analytics on BigQuery with Qlik Replicate

Learn how to extract SAP data into BigQuery.

SAP on Google Cloud: Backup strategies and solutions

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

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.

SAP on Google Cloud: High availability

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

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.

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.

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.

Taking the cloud-native approach with microservices

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

The Google Cloud Adoption Framework

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

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.

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