Cloud Architecture Center

Discover reference architectures, design guidance, and best practices for building, migrating, and managing your cloud workloads. See what's new!

Design cloud topologies that are secure, efficient, resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective

Review foundational architecture guidance for enterprise deployments in Google Cloud

Deployment archetypes

Learn about basic archetypes for cloud deployments: zonal, regional, multi-regional, global, hybrid, and multicloud.

Infrastructure reliability guide

Design and build infrastructure to run workloads reliably in Google Cloud.

Landing zone design

Build a landing zone that includes identity onboarding, resource hierarchy, network design, and security controls.

Enterprise foundations blueprint

Build a foundation for governance, security scale, visibility, and access.

Discover domain-specific architecture guidance

AI and ML

Explore reference architectures, patterns, and best practices for AI and ML solutions on Google Cloud.

Application development

Design scalable and resilient applications using microservices, serverless, and modern patterns.

Big data and analytics

Design, deploy, and manage big data and analytics workloads.

Databases

Learn how to design, deploy, and manage database workloads.

Hybrid and multicloud

Discover guidance for cloud workloads that span on-premises data centers and multiple cloud providers.

Migration

Get guidance and best practices for migrating your workloads, applications, and data to Google Cloud.

Monitoring and logging

Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and observability for your cloud resources.

Networking

Design secure, high-performance, and cost-effective network topologies using VPC, load balancing, and other services.

Reliability and DR

Build highly available and resilient systems and plan for disaster recovery to meet your business continuity goals.

Security and IAM

Secure your cloud environment with best practices for identity management, access control, and threat prevention.

Storage

Design an optimal storage strategy for your cloud workloads using object, file, block, and archive storage solutions.

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Google Cloud certification

Demonstrate your expertise and ability to transform businesses with Google Cloud technology.

Google Cloud security best practices center

Explore best practices for security and compliance for workloads on Google Cloud.

Google Cloud Migration Center

Accelerate your migration journey to Google Cloud.

Google Cloud partner advantage

Connect with a Google Cloud partner for your architecture needs.