That's fair - random person on the internet, I get it. I have common usernames on the various services you know and love, so feel free to dig about. As for tra

That's fair - random person on the internet, I get it. I have common usernames on the various services you know and love, so feel free to dig about. As for transparency, there is a big push to increase the trust in Google Cloud. We're a big company, and it's hard to get that personal connection to build the trust. I think our blog is trying to get this info out, here is a good recent one: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/how-we-secure-our-infrastructure.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/how-we-secure-o... My opinion is that Google is a very honest company. These whitepapers are our attempt to accurately describe what steps we are taking, in good faith, to ensure Google Cloud is the best, and most secure place, to do your computing on. As a personal anecdote, I once worked for Google (and quit, and came back) about 8 years ago. The difference in how secretive we are is night and day. I can say the word 'borg' in public, and even tell you what it is. And this is accelerating under Cloud, because we know that big enterprises aren't going to use us without a lot of details and assurances.