With plenty of reflection time since the 2018 edition of Google Cloud Next, it’s clear the majority of my fellow attendees agreed on a couple of things. First, Google is serious about making public cloud a successful part of their business strategy, and second, the amount of excitement generated by Google Cloud’s potential is tremendous—both from customers and partners. With much less IaaS baggage than the competition, Google has managed to focus on a developer-friendly environment where AI integrations are made to be as plug-and-play as possible.
