{"id":42172,"date":"2021-06-07T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=45d683b19acfc1b1227ab6c007fda95d"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:13:32","slug":"google-is-shifting-youtube-infrastructure-to-google-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-is-shifting-youtube-infrastructure-to-google-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is shifting YouTube infrastructure to Google Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/keumars-afifi-sabet\">Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">7 Jun, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Google is planning to migrate parts of YouTube away from its internal on-premise data centre infrastructure to its public cloud division, Google Cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although Google Cloud has carved a solid reputation through the years, its overall market share still languishes behind the likes of \u00a0Azure and AWS. With the cloud market continuing to expand at pace, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/leadership\/cloud-essentials\/9031\/assessing-your-cloud-strategy-after-covid\" >since the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, the firm is therefore hoping to exploit the potential for higher revenues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<!--wysiwyg_see-related_plugin--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Moving parts of YouTube\u2019s operations to Google\u2019s own public cloud division may serve as a spark the company needs to stay competitive, according to Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaking with <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/04\/google-is-moving-parts-of-youtube-to-its-cloud-service.html\">CNBC<\/a><\/em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Doing so would also allow the company to fight alongside the likes of AWS and Azure, with parent companies Amazon and Microsoft each moving their core services to their own public cloud divisions through the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cPart of evolving the cloud is having our own services use it more and more, and they are,\u201d Kurian told the network. \u201cParts of YouTube are moving to Google Cloud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>This migration will be the latest Google service to be powered by its public cloud arm, alongside its Google Workspace suite of productivity apps and services, as well as the DeepMind research division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>YouTube, however, is one of the largest and most widely-used platforms on the internet, and migrating its operations to Google Cloud may, the company hopes, encourage other businesses to follow suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Google Cloud has been in a state of transition since Kurian took over from Diane Greene a couple of years ago. The division recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/cloud-essentials\/public-cloud\/8927\/google-cloud-lost-41-billion-in-2020\" >losses of \u00a34.1 billion in 2020<\/a>, which were attributed to investment in new data centres, with Google Cloud intent on vastly expanding its operations in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>In 2020, the cloud giant launched four cloud regions in Indonesia, South Korea and the US, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/infrastructure\/google-cloud-announces-new-regions\"><span>alongside another four<\/span><\/a><span> which are set to be established in Qatar, Spain, Italy and France.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/p>\n<p>        7 Jun, 2021    <\/p>\n<p>      Google is planning to migrate parts of YouTube away from its internal on-premise data centre infrastructure to its public cloud division, Google Cloud.<br \/>\nAlthough Google Cloud has carved a s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42173,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42172\/revisions\/42173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}