Google shuts down cloud project

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday, that it has shut down its cloud project named “Isolated Region”. It also said that it was not weighing options to offer its cloud platform to China.

Earlier in the day, Bloomberg News reported, citing two employees, that Google had shelved the project in China. Same was done for other politically sensitive countries in May. It was partly due to rising geopolitical tensions and the pandemic.The search engine giant, however, said that the project’s shutdown was not due to either of those two reasons and that it has not offered cloud platform services in China.”Isolated Region” project aimed to provide services to customers and regulatory bodies around the world .

Update by Jayashree Kayal

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