After spending a year and a half working on a cloud service for China and other countries, Google canceled the project, called "Isolated Region," in May, in part due to geopolitical concerns related to a pandemic. Bloomberg reports that the Isolated Region, closed in May, would have allowed it to offer cloud services in countries that want to keep and control data within their borders.
According to two Google employees who spoke with Bloomberg, the project was part of a larger initiative called "fragmented Google" aimed at creating a data and processing infrastructure completely separate from the rest of the corporate network. The isolated region started in early 2018 in response to Chinese regulations which mean that foreign tech companies wishing to enter the country must form a joint venture with a local company that would control user data. The isolated region was supposed to help meet such demands in China and other countries, while addressing the national security concerns of the United States.
Bloomberg sources said the project was halted in China in January 2019 and attention was redirected to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, before the isolated region was finally canceled in May , although Google has since considered offering a smaller version of Google Cloud Platform in China.
After the first publication in history, a Google representative told Bloomberg that the remote region was not closed due to geopolitical problems or the pandemic, and that the company "does not offer and has not offered cloud platform services in China. "
Instead, she said that the isolated region had been canceled because "other approaches that we were actively pursuing had better results. We have a global approach to meet these requirements which covers data governance, operational practices and software survival. The isolated region is just one of the avenues we have explored to meet these demands. "
Alphabet, Google's parent company featured Google Cloud as its own line item for the first time in its fourth quarter and year results report released in February. He revealed that his execution rate increased 53.6% over the past year to just over $ 10 billion in 2019, making him a more formidable rival than his competitors Amazon and Microsoft. .