The announcement comes just about eight months after the cloud computing giant first introduced the Google Distributed Cloud Edge, and Google Distributed Cloud Hosted offerings. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is still in preview, with general availability expected later this year. The new AI and database services found in Distributed Cloud Hosted will be available within the next year, Google Cloud said to ZDNet. These hybrid offerings are especially important for customers with highly-sensitive workloads that shouldn’t leave dedicated facilities, customers that have to meet data residency requirements, or companies that want ultra-low latency. On-premise offerings, however, are only as good as the services they provide. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted now promises to offer services Vertex AI features like the Translation API, Speech-to-Text and optical character recognition. Google released the Vertex AI platform last year to help data scientists and ML engineers build, deploy and manage ML projects.
