Google Cloud infrastructure reliability: What's next

Last reviewed 2024-11-20 UTC

This page provides links to reliability-focused documentation that supplements the architectural guidance in the Google Cloud infrastructure reliability guide.

  • Design scalable and resilient applications.

    Patterns and best practices for building cloud applications that are resilient and scalable.

  • Mitigate ransomware attacks using Google Cloud.

    Best practices to help you identify, prevent, detect, and respond to ransomware attacks.

  • Plan for disaster recovery (DR).

    A series of documents that focus on designing for DR in the cloud.

  • Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework: Reliability pillar.

    Principles and recommendations to help you build, deploy, and operate reliable and resilient workloads on Google Cloud.

  • Learn about deployment archetypes for cloud applications

    An article in ACM Computing Surveys that explores six cloud-based deployment archetypes and their tradeoffs between high availability, latency, and cost.

  • Learn about Google Cloud deployment archetypes.

    Describes the following six deployment archetypes: zonal, regional, multi-regional, global, hybrid, and multicloud. It also presents Google Cloud-specific design considerations for each deployment archetype.

  • Learn how Google Cloud manages changes.

    Explains how Google Cloud teams apply reliability best practices and engineering standards to develop and release changes to our platform and services.