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The Future of Computing is Flexibility: A Different Kind of Cloud Contributed by Google Cloud Over the past two decades, we've seen three waves of innovation in the cloud computing market. The first wave was collocated hosting, giving customers financial efficiencies in renting physical space rather than investing in data center real estate. The second wave, and what most clouds look like today, is the virtualized data center model where developers are still forced to spend much of their time "keeping the lights on" versus building great applications, and the third wave is a fully- managed, serverless cloud environment. About ten years ago, Google got sick of the limitations of physical, virtualized data centers and switched to a container- based, serverless architecture. This means developers don't need to spin up servers, configure networks or patch operating systems. They can focus on building innovative software, at scale. Products like YouTube, Gmail and Maps serve millions of users each minute. Yet the developers working on these applications update production code multiple times a day without disruption, and their systems are resilient and secure. Today, we're delivering this vision to the rest of the world on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With AppEngine, you never see servers or patches, and you can literally spend zero (0) hours on administration each year. With BigQuery, you don't have to provision and maintain an analytics cluster. With DataProc, our managed Hadoop and Spark service, you can be up and running in ninety (90) seconds. We let customers focus on functionality, not managing infrastructure. Our customers are eager to leverage services and technologies that have powered Google's own internal infrastructure to build and deploy their solutions. When building Google Cloud, we concentrated around three fundamental principles: • Security, networking and infrastructure: Our infrastructure doesn't rely on any single technology to make it secure. Rather, we build security through progressive layers that deliver true defense in depth. Our hardware infrastructure is also custom designed by Google "from chip to chiller" to precisely meet our requirements, including security. We operate one of the largest backbone networks in the world, connecting our data centers with hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cable. According to a third-party estimate, more than 25% of global Internet traffic flows over our network in a given day. We have more than 100 points of presence across 33 countries, and | 6 | Why Google Cloud Platform?

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