Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped

Disconnected sovereign cloud solution

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped delivers a fully managed cloud experience for organizations that require complete isolation to meet stringent sovereignty and regulatory 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.

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Common Uses

AI-enabled offline visual and audio 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.

Translation architecture

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.

Translation architecture

AI-enabled offline video analysis

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.

Offline video analysis

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.

Offline video analysis

Generative AI

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.

Ingest Batch Processing and Query Real Time workflow

Using the natural language search solution can boost employee productivity and knowledge sharing, while ensuring data remains on-premises.

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.

Ingest Batch Processing and Query Real Time workflow

Using the natural language search solution can boost employee productivity and knowledge sharing, while ensuring data remains on-premises.

AI at the edge

AI at the edge and field operations centers

The air-gapped appliance is a configuration that brings Google’s cloud and AI capabilities to tactical edge environments. The integrated hardware and software solution unlocks real-time local data processing for AI use cases such as object detection, medical imaging analysis, and predictive maintenance for critical infrastructure. The appliance can be conveniently transported in a rugged case or mounted in a rack within customer-specific local operating environments.

AI at the edge and field operations centers

The air-gapped appliance is a configuration that brings Google’s cloud and AI capabilities to tactical edge environments. The integrated hardware and software solution unlocks real-time local data processing for AI use cases such as object detection, medical imaging analysis, and predictive maintenance for critical infrastructure. The appliance can be conveniently transported in a rugged case or mounted in a rack within customer-specific local operating environments.

Pricing

Pricing is based on the services you intend to consume, and the capacity that you will use to run those services.

Billing is computed in an air-gapped environment that is not connected to Google Cloud. Consumption information is not visible in the Google Cloud console. 

Pricing is based on the services you intend to consume, and the capacity that you will use to run those services.

Billing is computed in an air-gapped environment that is not connected to Google Cloud. Consumption information is not visible in the Google Cloud console. 

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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.

Available Managed GDC Providers, including Clarence, Gulf Edge, T-Systems, and WWT, specialize in deploying, operating, and managing Google Distributed Cloud services.

Read more about our Managed Google Distributed Cloud Provider initiative in this blog.

Partners & Integration

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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.

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 [email protected] to express their interest and undergo an initial technical and business capability qualification.

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