Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped | Sovereign Cloud
Disconnected sovereign cloud solution
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped is a fully managed experience for organizations requiring complete isolation to meet stringent sovereignty and regulatory requirements.
Features
Leading AI capabilities
Gemini is now available on GDC. Gemini’s advanced reasoning and state-of-the-art generation capabilities on GDC unlock key generative AI capabilities, including automation, content generation, discovery, and summarization on-premises.
Customers can also use built-in AI solutions, such as Translation API, Speech-to-Text, or optical character recognition (OCR), which are features of our leading Vertex AI platform.
Full isolation
Operate fully disconnected, while still integrating Google's AI capabilities, for your classified data and workloads. 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.
Supportable compliance standards
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped provides robust support for stringent security and regulatory needs. It meets technical requirements of standards like ISO 27001/27017, SOC II, ISMAP, NIST, NATO D48, and more. Deploy sensitive workloads in an isolated and secure environment, ensuring both data sovereignty and privacy without external network connectivity.
Integrated cloud services
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped delivers many of our advanced cloud services. The solution is built to be extensible and enables a catalog of independent software vendors' (ISVs) applications through our marketplace.
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.
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.
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.
How It Works
Google Distributed Cloud is a fully managed software and hardware solution for data centers and edge locations to address regulatory, local data processing, survivability, and low-latency needs.
What is Google Distributed Cloud?
Common Uses
AI offline visual and audio translation
Build in secure 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.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Build in secure 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.
AI-enabled offline video analysis
Automate analysis of video content and real-time streams
Our ready-to-deploy end-to-end platform has:
- AI-enabled search with natural language, intelligent ingestion
- Support for batch uploads and real-time streams (and most videos/streams)
- An advanced model repository with Google’s latest open source and custom models
- A fully automated workflow management system for full life cycle
- Extensive reporting/metrics capabilities for full visibility into component
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Automate analysis of video content and real-time streams
Our ready-to-deploy end-to-end platform has:
- AI-enabled search with natural language, intelligent ingestion
- Support for batch uploads and real-time streams (and most videos/streams)
- An advanced model repository with Google’s latest open source and custom models
- A fully automated workflow management system for full life cycle
- Extensive reporting/metrics capabilities for full visibility into component
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.
Using a natural language search solution can boost employee productivity, while also ensuring data remains on-premises.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
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.
Using a natural language search solution can boost employee productivity, while also ensuring data remains on-premises.
AI at the edge
Learning resources
Pricing
| How GDC air-gapped pricing works | Billing is computed in an air-gapped environment that is not connected to Google Cloud. Consumption info is not visible in Google Cloud console. |
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Contact a Google Cloud sales specialist | Request a quote from sales for costs based on your requirements. |
Pricing is based on services consumed and capacity used to run them.
How GDC air-gapped pricing works
Billing is computed in an air-gapped environment that is not connected to Google Cloud. Consumption info is not visible in Google Cloud console.
Contact a Google Cloud sales specialist
Pricing is based on services consumed and capacity used to run them.
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Business Case
Deliver innovation while addressing data, operational, and software sovereignty requirements
Google Distributed Cloud achieves DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization
Google Public Sector is now able to provide DoD customers with a secure, compliant, and cutting-edge cloud environment at IL6, enabling them to leverage the full power of GDC for their most sensitive Secret classified data and applications. This accreditation builds on our existing IL5 and Top Secret accreditations, and solidifies Google Cloud's ability to deliver secure solutions for digital sovereignty, critical national security, and defense missions for the U.S. government.
Partners & Integration
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Google Cloud Ready partners
Managed Google Distributed Cloud Providers
Hardware partners
Visit our partner directory to learn about these Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped partners.
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.
What is a Managed Google Distributed Cloud Provider and how does my company become one?
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 that includes 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 gdc-partners@google.com to express their interest and undergo an initial technical and business capability qualification.