Google Cloud and Telefónica have signed a new partnership to foster the country's digital transformation and advance 5G mobile edge computing.
Telefónica will also use Google Cloud services to boost its own digital capabilities - in areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and application development - to continue to provide new services and tools to its global customer base.
As part of this agreement Google Cloud also announced its plans to open a new cloud region in Spain that will leverage Telefonica's Madrid region infrastructure. With the opening of this new Google Cloud region in Spain, customers will benefit from the integration with Telefonica's communications and cloud services, and will have the opportunity to use Google Cloud products with low latency and high performance while also having the option to store their applications in local public cloud servers.
Designed for high availability, the region will have three zones to protect against service disruptions, and will launch with the standard set of Google Cloud Platform products, including: Compute Engine, App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Bigtable, Cloud Storage, Spanner, and BigQuery.
With this alliance, the two companies strengthen their collaboration announced in 2019 to include Google Cloud solutions in Telefónica’s global B2B Portfolio.
Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete, Chairman & CEO, Telefonica
With our alliance with Google Cloud we want to fulfil our social commitment and foster the recovery of the economy helping companies, the public administration and all types of organizations not only to not only recover the ground lost by the crisis but also to accelerate their digital transformation and strengthen themselves for the future.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet
We’re excited to be partnering with Telefónica to launch a new cloud region in Spain and help Spanish businesses big and small find new ways to innovate and contribute to the country’s economic recovery.
