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This is obvious government contract baiting. Kudos though they might actually move some Google Distributed Cloud this way

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Financial firms with significant on-prem datacenter use will love this as well. My company still stays away from the cloud -- we have 6 DCs in the building, and run everything else out of colocated racks.

Who provides internet

> financial firm

That means they have direct fiber connections to the Tier 1/Tier 2 guys. The big ones have direct fiber connections to the NYSE.

If they're not rolling their own connection, they're using BT Radianz, IPC Systems, Colt Technology Services, etc.

I don’t think so. To my knowledge GCP has no approval for classified networks, which is by far the hardest part. Contrast with Azure OpenAI has been approved to run on government networks for over a year now.

This feels like a play for companies in highly regulated industries, GCP has a notable list of biopharma customers.

>Today at Google Cloud Next, we're thrilled to announce another significant milestone for Google Public Sector: the authorization of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) to host Top Secret and Secret missions for the U.S. Intelligence Community, and Top Secret missions for the Department of Defense (DoD).

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-pu...

You are right, I should’ve RTFA

FedRAMP High is the mark you really want to hit for the US Government and GCP's service coverage is surprisingly broad in that realm.

From Google's blog post:

> Our GDC air-gapped product, which is now authorized for US Government Secret and Top Secret missions, and on which Gemini is available, provides the highest levels of security and compliance.

Banking as well, this is the kind of offering they've been looking for a while. Google just saw the demand decided to jump in while OpenAI and Anthropic probably calculated they don't have the manpower to deal with the support for this.

This is obvious government contract baiting

You don't have to be a government agency to not want your company's data all over the place.

With a few exceptions for companies with highly secretive data, you do have to be a government agency or working in a highly regulated government-adjacent area for secured private clouds to be a requirement carved in stone and therefore worth investing a ton of extra money into though.

Just off the top of my head: Healthcare. Banking.

Neither approaches the secrecy needed by government installations. Health care and banking leak PII regularly and never really suffer any consequences.

This is just inaccurate

https://circlesofcaredatasettlement.com/

Anecdotes are not data.

Healthcare and banking have no issue storing data in third party datacenters as long as they meet the applicable standards.

You absolutely don't need this or FedRAMP to do healthcare.

i'll add that on-prem is getting 10-100x easier than it was 10-20 years ago (still very hard), and "i want to run this in my own datacenter" is becoming accessible to much smaller companies than just F500 enterprises

Huh? 20 years ago on-prem was the norm and the cloud didn’t exist.

Yeah, AWS was in private beta in 2005 and public in 2006. People knew it existed but didn't have access yet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-th...

Both of which are encumbered with regulations that want them to need this.

They’ll have to fight Microsoft who’s been promising copilot.

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