Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped
Air-gapped private cloud for regulated customers
Google Distributed Cloud enables public sector organizations and regulated enterprises to deliver innovation by addressing strict data residency and security requirements.
Features
Full isolation
The solution does not require connectivity to Google Cloud or the public internet to manage the infrastructure, services, APIs, or tooling, and is built to remain disconnected in perpetuity. It is designed to support strict requirements in alignment with NIST SP 800-53-FedRAMP high security controls.
Integrated cloud services
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped delivers advanced cloud services, including many of our data and machine learning technologies. Customers can use built-in AI solutions, such as Translation API, Speech-to-Text, or optical character recognition (OCR), which are features of our Vertex AI product that follows our AI Principles. The solution is built to be extensible and enables a catalog of independent software vendors' (ISVs) applications through our marketplace.
Open ecosystem
Google Distributed Cloud is designed around Google Cloud’s open cloud strategy. It is built on the Kubernetes API, and uses industry-leading open source components in the platform and managed services. Open software accelerates developer adoption by leveraging existing expertise and tools versus requiring customers to learn new, proprietary systems.
Flexible hardware options
Google Distributed Cloud provides customers with industry-leading flexibility for hardware, including general purpose compute and GPUs. Customers can start small with an appliance or as few as four racks and grow to hundreds as their workloads grow. The air-gapped offering provides a fully redundant, high-availability architecture for mission-critical systems.
Configurable operations
While the technology at the core of every Google Distributed Cloud deployment is the same, the operating model can be configured to each customer’s unique needs. Customers enjoy a consistent developer experience and access to a robust set of managed services, while being able to tailor deployment and operations to address their specific requirements. Google Distributed Cloud's air-gapped solution can be operated by Google, a trusted partner, or a combination of the two with the ability to customize elements like operator citizenship and clearances.
How It Works
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped includes the hardware, software, local control plane, and operational tooling necessary to deploy, operate, scale, and secure a complete private managed cloud.
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped includes the hardware, software, local control plane, and operational tooling necessary to deploy, operate, scale, and secure a complete private managed cloud.
Common Uses
AI-enabled offline visual and audio translation
Build in secure, offline environments with AI-enabled translation
Build in secure, offline environments with AI-enabled translation
Use the latest optical character recognition and speech-to-text technologies developed by Google Cloud while running in a fully disconnected environment for live translation of text within images, PDFs, or audio files. The translated text is summarized within the UI and available for download, reducing the need for manual transcription and translation while also saving valuable time and resources.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Build in secure, offline environments with AI-enabled translation
Build in secure, offline environments with AI-enabled translation
Use the latest optical character recognition and speech-to-text technologies developed by Google Cloud while running in a fully disconnected environment for live translation of text within images, PDFs, or audio files. The translated text is summarized within the UI and available for download, reducing the need for manual transcription and translation while also saving valuable time and resources.
AI-enabled offline video analysis
Automate analysis of video content and real-time streams
Automate analysis of video content and real-time streams
Our ready-to-deploy end-to-end video analysis platform that features AI-enabled search using natural language, intelligent video ingestion that supports both batch uploads and real-time streams supporting the majority video and stream types, and an advanced model repository serving Google’s latest models, open source, and custom models. It also includes a fully automated workflow management system that orchestrates the full solution lifecycle, and extensive reporting and metrics capabilities to deliver full visibility into the solution components.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Automate analysis of video content and real-time streams
Automate analysis of video content and real-time streams
Our ready-to-deploy end-to-end video analysis platform that features AI-enabled search using natural language, intelligent video ingestion that supports both batch uploads and real-time streams supporting the majority video and stream types, and an advanced model repository serving Google’s latest models, open source, and custom models. It also includes a fully automated workflow management system that orchestrates the full solution lifecycle, and extensive reporting and metrics capabilities to deliver full visibility into the solution components.
Generative AI
Need to quickly find relevant content from on-prem data?
Need to quickly find relevant content from on-prem data?
GDC offers a generative AI search packaged solution enabled by Gemma, our state-of-the-art open models. The solution is designed to help customers easily retrieve and analyze data at the edge or on-premises with GDC. The generative AI search packaged solution is a ready-to-deploy on-prem conversational search solution that uses the Gemma 7B model.
Using the natural language search solution can boost employee productivity and knowledge sharing, while ensuring data remains on-premises.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Need to quickly find relevant content from on-prem data?
Need to quickly find relevant content from on-prem data?
GDC offers a generative AI search packaged solution enabled by Gemma, our state-of-the-art open models. The solution is designed to help customers easily retrieve and analyze data at the edge or on-premises with GDC. The generative AI search packaged solution is a ready-to-deploy on-prem conversational search solution that uses the Gemma 7B model.
Using the natural language search solution can boost employee productivity and knowledge sharing, while ensuring data remains on-premises.
Pricing
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How GDC air-gapped pricing works
Pricing for GDC air-gapped is based on the services you intend to consume, and the capacity that you will use to run those services.
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Business Case
Deliver innovation while addressing data, operational, and software sovereignty requirements
Top Secret and Secret cloud authorization
Google Distributed Cloud is authorized to host Top Secret and Secret missions for the U.S. Intelligence Community, and Top Secret missions for the Department of Defense (DoD). This authorization allows the U.S. Intelligence and DoD agencies to host, control, and manage their infrastructure and services in a highly secure environment, while leveraging the power of advanced cloud capabilities like data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Read the announcementRelated content
Press release: CSIT and Google Cloud collaborate to pilot sovereign cloud solution in Singapore
The Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT) is piloting the use of Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped to support CSIT's effort to harness AI in tackling Singapore's defense and security challenges.
Blog: How European customers benefit today from the power of choice with Google Sovereign Cloud
Learn how our comprehensive set of sovereign capabilities is allowing organizations to adopt the right controls on a per-workload basis to meet their digital sovereignty requirements.
Blog: Our latest announcements and innovations from Google Cloud NEXT '24
Learn about our generative AI packaged solution, product enhancements, and extended partnership programs bringing the power of Google's AI services wherever you need them—in your own data center or at the edge.
Partnerships with leading independent software solutions, including Canonical, CIQ, Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Elastic, IS Decisions, Maria DB, Starburst, Syntasa, and Trellix to validate compatible solutions for easy in air-gapped environments.
Learn more about our Google Distributed Cloud portfolio, including videos to get you started.
Partners & Integration
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Google Cloud Ready Partners
Managed Google Distributed Cloud Providers
Build Partners
Hardware Partners
Visit our partner directory to learn about these Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped partners.
FAQ
What is a Google Cloud Ready Partner and how does my company become one?
The Google Cloud Ready - Distributed Cloud recognizes partner solutions that have met a core set of functional and interoperability requirements. Through the process, partners closely collaborate with Google to provide new integrations to best support customer use cases. Learn more in the Google Cloud Ready - Distributed Cloud Partner Validation Guide.
What is a Managed Google Distributed Cloud Provider and how does my company become one?
The Managed GDC Providers (MGP) is a strategic partnership initiative by Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program designed to accelerate Google Distributed Cloud adoption by collaborating with specialized partners who are skilled in deploying, operating, and managing services. These MGPs form a comprehensive ecosystem, providing end-to-end Google Distributed Cloud solutions, including top-tier support and robust data security. By offering Google Distributed Cloud as a managed service, MGPs empower businesses to scale efficiently while maintaining high service quality.
This initiative addresses digital (data, operational, software) sovereignty, latency, and connectivity challenges, making it ideal for sectors, such as public sector, finance, and manufacturing.
Becoming an MGP is by invitation only. Interested partners should contact your account team or email gdc-partners@google.com to express their interest and undergo an initial technical and business capability qualification.
