MARK MIRCHANDANI: Welcome to the second part
of our top 10 questions for customer engineers.
Let's jump right into it.
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Question number six, how does Google secure my data?
CORI PEELE: We encrypt at rest and in transit.
Our infrastructure doesn't rely on any single technology
to make it secure.
We've designed security of our infrastructure
in layers that builds upon each other from the physical
security of the data centers to these security
protections in our hardware and software
to the processes we use to support operational security.
This layered protection creates strong security
as a foundation for everything we do.
Data stored on our infrastructure
is automatically encrypted at rest by default
and distributed for availability and reliability.
We also support customer-managed encryption keys
using Cloud QMS and customer-supplied encryption
keys.
Communication over the internet to our cloud services
are encrypted.
The scale of our infrastructure allows
us to absorb many denial of service attacks,
and we have multiple layers of protection that further reduce
the risk of any DDoS impact.
Finally, our operations team detects threats and responds
to incidents around the clock.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Security is important,
and applications are often business-critical
to our customers, so they need to be confident
that Google Cloud is reliable and scalable.
Question number seven-- is Google
ready for the enterprise?
YURI GRINSHTEYN: That is a great question
that every customer should be asking,
and we got lots of customers to answer that one for us.
You can read what they have to say about this by going
to cloud.google.com/customers.
You'll see that folks from Charles Schwab and the Chicago
Department of Transportation to Johnson and Johnson
and the National Institute on Aging
have all decided that Google Cloud is reliable, scalable,
and secure enough for them.
Analysts agree with them.
For example, Forrester just named Google Cloud
a leader in their Public Cloud Platform Native Security
Report.
This all just goes to show our combination of world class
infrastructure, research and thought leadership,
and folks just like these customer engineers next to me
all add up to making Google Cloud the place
to run enterprise workloads.
CORI PEELE: That sure makes us feel better
about running business-critical applications on GCP.
But on to question eight--
how do I control my cloud costs?
MARK MIRCHANDANI: We have many ways
to help you estimate and control your costs.
You're always able to use the pricing calculator
to help estimate what your workload costs might look
like once you're on the cloud.
Once you're up and running, your instances and services
can be labeled to help organize your resources.
Building data can be exported to BigQuery in order
to review and analyze what you're spending in case
the default bills aren't descriptive enough.
Plus, you can set up budgets and alerting
from your cloud console to warn you well ahead of time
before you spend your budget.
YURI GRINSHTEYN: Oh, I dropped my contacts.
CORI PEELE: Oh, we'll help.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Oh, we'll help you.
NICK ORLOVE: And we're back.
Let's see.
Where were we?
That's right-- question number nine.
What is a managed service, and what problems does it solve?
IVAN RAMIREZ: Well, a managed service
is exactly what it says on the box.
It's a set of services or products
where Google takes care of the upkeep and maintenance.
Since its inception, Google has put a strong focus
on marrying open source technologies
with fully managed services.
While we focus on the maintenance,
you get the product that truly stands out,
allowing you to refocus your engineer's
time from a maintenance-centric approach
to a feature-focused strategy that ensures your time
and effort are being spent on the things that
will set your application and company apart from the rest.
A good example of this no-ops approach
is best shown when we discuss the concept
of [? flat ?] migrations.
With Google Cloud, we seamlessly migrate your instance
to another machine through Google's hardware maintenance
events so that you don't suffer any downtime.
Most of our users don't even notice.
NICK ORLOVE: Finally-- drumroll, please--
question number 10.
What makes GCP special?
STEPHANIE WONG: Well, us, of course.
And in addition, Google Cloud Platform
differs in a variety of ways, including our security model,
which is an end-to-end process built
over 15 years of experience keeping our customers
safe on Google apps like Gmail.
We offer a global network.
Our network backbone has thousands
of miles of fiberoptic cable using
advanced software-defined networking and Edge
caches globally to deliver fast, consistent performance.
We also live and breathe big data.
We contributed to innovations like MapReduce, Bigtable,
and Dremel, and new frameworks for data warehousing
and machine learning, even batch and real time data processing.
Our solutions are serverless, and they
let you take advantage of the years of research
that we've done.
And we offer Compute Engine billing by the second,
so you don't have to pay for compute minutes
that you don't use.
And of course, we are environmentally friendly,
and our data centers run on half of the energy of a typical data
center.
In 2017, we purchased 100% renewable energy
to match our consumption for our global operations.
IVAN RAMIREZ: Thanks for watching,
and make sure to like, comment, and subscribe below.
STEPHANIE WONG: And if you'd like to get in contact with us,
click on the link in the description.
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