From former Amazon Web Services directors and principal scientists to top cybersecurity experts, Google is hiring a slew of top executives from its cloud rival AWS in 2023.
Based off of these hires, Google has landed: a new managing director of customer engineering for its public sector business; a new security and compliance leader and cloud CISO for Google Cloud; as well as a new distinguished engineer for the cloud computing giant.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based technology giant is growing profits faster than ever before, while at the same time investing heavily in generative AI and cloud computing innovation to get a leg up over its main competitors AWS and Microsoft.
[Related: Google Cloud Partner Wursta On ‘Exciting’ New AI In GCP, Workspace]
Google Cloud’s $32 Billion Run Rate
Before getting into Google’s recent IT hires from AWS, Databricks and more, it is important to point out that Google Cloud is growing sales and profits at a blistering rate.
In Q2 2023, Google Cloud captured a record $8 billion in sales during the quarter, representing an increase of 28 percent compared to Q2 2022. Additionally, Google Cloud reported operating income of $395 million in the quarter, marking the second consecutive quarter the cloud company generated a net positive profit.
Google Cloud is also launching a slew of solutions and offerings around generative AI, a red-hot market that it competes in with AWS and Microsoft. For example, at Google Cloud Next 2023, the company unleashed dozens of new products and features around generative AI, including around the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Workspace.
With Google Cloud looking to win more cloud market share, here are five executives that have left AWS and other companies to join Google Cloud over the past two months.
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Mark Haranas is an assistant news editor and longtime journalist now covering cloud, multicloud, software, SaaS and channel partners at CRN. He speaks with world-renown CEOs and IT experts as well as covering breaking news and live events while also managing several CRN reporters. He can be reached at [email protected].
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