8 million TB and $300 million for the year. Apple named the largest Google Cloud client

At the end of June 2021, it became known that Apple is the largest user of Google cloud services. The manufacturer of iPhone and iPad stores about 8 Ebytes of data in the cloud of an American company, which is 16 times more than ByteDance (owner TikTok).

Details of the cooperation of large companies with Google Cloud were revealed by The Information, citing an unnamed source. According to the latter, because Apple uses a large number of cloud resources, Google assigned the company the code name Bigfoot, and also offers preferential terms.

Apple is Google Cloud's largest customer - 8 million TB and $300 million per year

So, according to the calculator on the Google website, storing 8 Ebytes of data in the company's cloud costs $218 million per month, and Apple will pay $300 million in 2021. For reference: one exabyte is enough to record a video call lasting more than 237,000 years, the portal AppleInsider notes.

The third largest Google Cloud customers on the list is the Spotify music service, which uses 460 PB of space in the cloud. The fourth place is taken by Twitter (315 PB), the fifth - Snapchat (275 PB).

It is assumed that Apple is forced to store large amounts of data that its own data centers cannot cope with, so the company resorts to the services of large cloud providers, which are cheaper than building and maintaining its own capacities. In addition to Google, the corporation collaborates with Amazon. All personal user data stored on Google servers is encrypted using keys that only Apple has, so the security level is no different if the information was stored on servers owned entirely by Apple. The company uses Google Cloud to store audio and video files, as well as documents.^[1]

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