Google Cloud Next 2025: Strong Stack — Now the Test of Execution in Asia/Pacific

This IDC Market Note provides an insightful overview of the Google Cloud Next 2025 event held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 8–10, 2025. Google showcased its AI-native cloud stack, emphasizing modular, open architectures, and AI automations. Despite robust offerings, execution remains crucial, especially in Asia/Pacific, where challenges, such as uneven enterprise maturity, and talent gaps persist, and diverse regulatory environments add further complexity. Success depends on effective solutioning, partner enablement, and building trust to drive scale and faster ROI."Google has built a robust AI stack, but its success in the Asia/Pacific enterprise market will depend on turning that architecture into trusted, localized execution that delivers tangible outcomes at scale. Partners will be central to making that happen," says Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, VP, digital innovation, software, customer experience, digital-native businesses/start-ups, small and medium-sized business and channels research, IDC Asia/Pacific.