Google’s First Cloud Region in Greece, Becomes Computing Hub

Search Engine Giant Google to build its First Cloud Region in Greece to boost the country's economy

Google, the world's largest search engine and an Alphabet subsidiary, has chosen to establish Google's first cloud region in Greece to establish the nation as a cloud computing hub. The corporation stated in its statement that this action will also help Greece's economy creating as many jobs.

It is claimed that by investing, firms will be able to use their data more effectively, enhance low latency, and guarantee user protection in the face of cybersecurity threats. The first cloud region is typically centered on a collection of data centers. Microsoft Corp. decided to construct a data center hub in the nation two years before Google's investment.  To help a variety of businesses and government organizations use its cloud region in Greece, Amazon's cloud computing division was established. The deal is estimated to contribute some $2.13 billion to Greece's economic output and create some 20,000 jobs by 2030.

Boost To Greece Economy

According to reports, the agreement is expected to add more than 2.2 billion euros to Greece's GDP and create more than 20,000 jobs nationwide. The year that Kyriakos Mitsotakis entered politics marked the beginning of his vigorous pursuit of enlarging the economic safety net. The Prime Minister has been involved in developing tactics to entice major IT companies since Greece emerged from the financial crisis in 2018. In the year 2010, the Greece Crisis got underway.

 Google's Statement

In a statement, one of Google's representatives indicated that the area would offer Google cloud and storage services. The official continued by saying that the new expenditure would improve user access to data and would protect it from cyberattacks.

Adaire Fox-Martin, president of Google Cloud International, announced the investment during an event in Athens, saying, "Today, we are extremely thrilled to be introducing our first cloud region in Greece which will provide storage and cloud services for Google customers."

Google Cloud

Users can access saved files and data via Google Cloud's infrastructure. When the search engine started delivering cloud services under the name "app engine" in 2008, the idea for Google clouds first emerged. The 24 locations of the Google Cloud Platform's data centers house some of the biggest cloud service providers. Microsoft Azure and Amazon Workspace are competitors of Google Cloud.

Cloud services simply refer to using another system to do your online activity. The services provided by Google enable consumers to access the infrastructure, which could be expensive for a single business to put up, maintain, and secure. Google cloud services are utilized for things like coding, data storage, AI machine learning, and other things.

Overview of Google Cloud offerings

In addition to cloud management, security, and developer tools, Google Cloud provides services for computing, storage, networking, big data, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. The following are only a few of the cloud computing services offered by Google Cloud:

• The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) product Google Compute Engine offers consumers VM instances for hosting workloads.
• Software developers have access to Google's scalable hosting through the PaaS platform-as-a-service (Google App Engine). An SDK can be used by developers to create software applications that operate on App Engine.
• Large, unstructured data collections can be stored on Google Cloud Storage, a cloud storage platform. Google also provides choices for database storage, including its own Cloud Bigtable database, Cloud Datastore for NoSQL non-relational storage, and Cloud SQL for MySQL fully relational storage.
• The management and orchestration solution for Docker containers and container clusters running on Google's public cloud services is called Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Based on Kubernetes, Google's open-source container management system, Google Kubernetes Engine was created.
• The operations suite of Google Cloud, formerly known as Stackdriver, is a collection of integrated tools for tracking, logging, and reporting on the managed services powering Google Cloud applications and systems.
• Serverless computing, which offers tools and services for event-based task execution, including Workflows to orchestrate serverless products and APIs, Cloud Functions for developing functions that handle cloud events, and Cloud Run for managing and running containerized applications.
• Among the database products offered as fully managed services under the Databases umbrella are Cloud Bigtable for large-scale, low-latency workloads, Firestore for documents, CloudSpanner for highly scalable, highly reliable relational databases, and CloudSQL for fully managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases.

Application development and integration services are provided by Google Cloud. One controlled real-time messaging solution that enables message exchange between applications is Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Additionally, Google Cloud Endpoints enables developers to build RESTful API-based services and then make those services available to clients running Apple iOS, Android, and JavaScript. Direct network connections, Anycast DNS servers, load balancing, monitoring, and logging services are additional services available