Google's Senior Director of Product for Google Distributed Cloud joins the Let's Talk Shop podcast to discuss the latest trends in cloud computing, edge deployments, and generative AI. In this wideranging interview, Brad Bonnett explains what Google Distributed Cloud is and how it extends Google Cloud capabilities to the edge and onpremises environments. He dives into the key use cases driving adoption of distributed cloud, from data sovereignty and compliance to low latency requirements.

The conversation pivots to the generative AI revolution, with Brad providing insights into how enterprises are moving GenAI like large language models into production. He shares realworld examples of customers using Google Distributed Cloud to run AI workloads onprem due to data locality needs or regulatory constraints. Brad also highlights the differentiation of Google's Distributed Cloud offering, leveraging the company's robust global network infrastructure while enabling an open ecosystem with portability of data, models and common opensource tools.