Google's Billion-Dollar Cloud Business Takes On AWS, Azure With AI, Machine Learning

Google in February did something it's never done before: It told the world just how big its Google Cloud business really is. The search giant said its six-year-old cloud platform and its popular cloud-based collaboration portfolio, G-Suite, is now a $1 billion per quarter business. To sustain that growth, Google is leaning more heavily on its capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. To pull in bigger deals, Google needs solution providers to help them reach businesses where AI and machine learning will matter most. Agosto, a Minneapolis-based Google partner, is seeing an increase in the number of Fortune 500 companies that are looking at Google as a feature-by-feature competitor of AWS and Microsoft.