The benefits and differentiators of Google Cloud

As highlighted in previous chapters, one of the biggest advantages that Google Cloud has over its competitors is the fact that Google Cloud is built on top of Google infrastructure. This means that Google Cloud customers benefit from many of the technological advances and best practices developed by Google. This includes leveraging a global, proprietary network where all data is encrypted at rest and in transit by default. In addition, Google security teams are engaged in ensuring that the underlying network and data center infrastructure is hardened enough to fight off even the most advanced threats. With Google having 10+ applications with over 500 million users and several with over 1 billion users, their security teams are exposed to threats from all over the world on a daily basis. They then take the knowledge from these attacks, such as malware signatures, and build solutions and defenses, equipping themselves with some of the...