Google Cloud has announced the opening of a new cloud region based in Salt Lake City.
The new region, Google Cloud’s 22nd globally, will provide fast and reliable cloud services to customers across the Western United States. Google Cloud also today announced that PayPal, a leading technology platform and digital payments company, will migrate key portions of its payments infrastructure to the region.
Jennifer Chason, Director, Google Cloud Enterprise – Western States & Southern California commented: “We’re committed to building the most secure, high-performance and scalable public cloud, and we continue to make critical infrastructure investments that deliver our cloud services closer to customers that need them the most.”
With the Salt Lake City region now open, Google Cloud enterprise customers can gain access to lower latency, enhanced scalability, and better end-user customer experiences. They will also have the flexibility to divide workloads across Western U.S. regions in Los Angeles and Oregon, ensuring reliability at high speeds.
PayPal Vice President, Employee Technology & Experiences and Data Centers, Dan Torunian added: “When it comes to processing a financial transaction, security and speed count. We are always looking for ways to better serve our customers, and we believe Google Cloud’s offering is the right fit when it comes to providing security, quality and velocity.
“Expanding our relationship with Google Cloud gives us access to new features and capabilities that help us manage seasonal surges in payment transactions and reduce regional expansion costs and complexities.”
PayPal revealed it specifically selected the Salt Lake City region for low-latency access to its own data center, allowing the company to extend its resources into the cloud as its business continues to grow.
The move will also help PayPal establish a migration pattern that can be leveraged to quickly transition additional on-prem infrastructure to the cloud in any Google Cloud Platform region.
