Google Cloud

About Google Cloud

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Google Cloud

All products by Google Cloud reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Google Vertex AIMachine Learning Platforms

Build, deploy, and scale ML models on Google Cloud infrastructure

Pricing on request8.2/10

LookerAI Analytics

Governed BI platform with AI-powered conversational analytics on Google Cloud

Pricing on request7.4/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Google Cloud

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Google Cloud's products on their own terms. They disagreed by 2.2 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Decision Maker the most positive.

Averaged across 2 reviewed products in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Google Cloud competes with, and how they differ.

Amazon Web Services, Inc.8.3/10

Competes directly with Vertex AI via Bedrock and SageMaker, offering a broader marketplace of third-party foundation models with usage-based pricing on a larger overall cloud infrastructure footprint.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Microsoft7.8/10

Azure OpenAI Service competes with Vertex AI Studio for enterprise foundation model access, with tighter default integration into OpenAI's models versus Google's own Gemini and multi-model approach; Power BI directly rivals Looker in BI/analytics.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Databricks8.4/10

Unified data and AI platform competing for enterprise ML workloads, built around a lakehouse architecture and open-source Spark/MLflow ecosystem rather than Google's proprietary model-access-first approach.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Salesforce7.7/10

Tableau competes with Looker in BI/analytics with a stronger install base in traditional dashboarding, while Einstein targets embedded CRM-specific AI rather than general-purpose foundation model access.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

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Microsoft Power BI

Already captured under Microsoft above

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Google Cloud's history, with sources.

1. Oct 23, 2025Partnership

   Anthropic expands Google Cloud TPU commitment in a deal worth tens of billions

   Anthropic secured access to up to 1 million Google TPUs and over a gigawatt of compute capacity coming online in 2026, Google Cloud's largest TPU commitment to date.

   networkworld.com
2. Dec 13, 2023Launch

   Gemini Pro launched on Vertex AI

   A week after unveiling its Gemini model family, Google made Gemini Pro available to enterprise developers on Vertex AI and in Google AI Studio.

   venturebeat.com
3. Oct 27, 2023Partnership

   Google commits up to $2B to Anthropic, deepening its AI cloud ties

   Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic ($500M upfront, $1.5B over time), building on an earlier $300M stake and a reported Google Cloud services contract.

   cnbc.com
4. Apr 25, 2023Milestone

   Google Cloud posts its first-ever quarterly operating profit

   Alphabet's Q1 2023 results showed Google Cloud generating $191M in operating income on $7.45B of revenue, its first profitable quarter after years of losses.

   cnbc.com
5. May 18, 2021Launch

   Vertex AI launched at Google I/O

   Google Cloud introduced Vertex AI, a unified managed machine-learning platform merging its AutoML and AI Platform tooling, claiming ~80% less code to train models than competing platforms.

   techcrunch.com
6. Feb 13, 2020Acquisition

   Google completes $2.6B acquisition of Looker

   Google Cloud closed its purchase of analytics firm Looker, its first major deal under CEO Thomas Kurian, to bolster BigQuery and business-intelligence offerings.

   techcrunch.com
7. Nov 16, 2018Milestone

   Thomas Kurian named to succeed Diane Greene as Google Cloud CEO

   Former Oracle president Thomas Kurian was named to take over Google Cloud leadership in early 2019, tasked with improving enterprise sales execution against AWS and Microsoft Azure.

   techcrunch.com
8. Nov 19, 2015Milestone

   Diane Greene hired to lead a newly unified Google Cloud business

   VMware co-founder Diane Greene joined Google (via its acquisition of her startup Bebop) to run a consolidated cloud division combining Google Cloud Platform, Google for Work and Google Apps.

   fortune.com
9. Dec 3, 2013Launch

   Google Compute Engine reaches general availability

   After 18 months in preview (announced at Google I/O 2012), Compute Engine opened to all customers with an SLA, expanded OS support and lower pricing, competing directly with AWS EC2.

   infoworld.com
10. Apr 7, 2008Launch

    Google App Engine launches in preview

    Google's first cloud computing service launched in limited preview for 10,000 developers, offering a hosted, auto-scaling application platform and predating the Google Cloud Platform brand.

    techcrunch.com