Source: business-standard.com (originally published 23 August 2019)
Infosys Becomes a Google Cloud Managed Service Provider
Infosys announced on 21 August 2019 that it has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud, attaining the status of a Google Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP). The designation positions Infosys to offer a broad portfolio of services to enterprise customers seeking to adopt or scale workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
What the Google Cloud MSP Designation Means
The Google Cloud MSP program is designed to recognize partners that have demonstrated validated expertise in delivering end-to-end cloud managed services. Achieving MSP status typically requires a partner to meet Google’s standards across areas such as technical capability, customer success, and operational excellence.
For Infosys, the expanded partnership means it is now positioned to deliver the following service categories on GCP:
- Consulting: Helping enterprises define cloud strategy and architecture aligned to business goals.
- Assessment: Evaluating existing on-premises or multi-cloud environments to identify migration readiness, risk, and opportunity.
- Migration: Moving workloads, applications, and data from legacy environments to GCP in a structured, low-disruption manner.
- Optimization: Tuning GCP resource usage, cost management, and performance after initial migration.
- Managed Support: Providing ongoing operational support for enterprise GCP environments, including monitoring, incident response, and governance.
Why This Partnership Matters for Enterprise Cloud Adoption
Large enterprises often lack the in-house expertise or bandwidth to plan and execute complex cloud migrations at scale. Partnerships between hyperscale cloud providers like Google Cloud and global systems integrators like Infosys are designed to close that gap. With MSP status, Infosys clients gain access to a partner that has a formally validated relationship with Google Cloud, which can streamline access to GCP technical resources, support escalation paths, and co-developed solution accelerators.
For DevOps and platform engineering teams inside enterprise organizations, this kind of partnership can have practical implications: it may influence the availability of pre-built migration tooling, reference architectures, and SLA-backed managed operations for GCP-hosted workloads.
Context and Timing
The announcement was made after market hours on 21 August 2019. At that time, competition among cloud providers — Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure — for large enterprise contracts was intensifying, and systems integrators with MSP credentials were becoming key channels for winning and retaining enterprise workloads.
Infosys, as one of the largest IT services companies globally, brings significant delivery scale to the partnership, with consulting and engineering talent capable of supporting multi-geography GCP deployments.
This article focuses on the Infosys–Google Cloud partnership announcement. The original source post contained unrelated corporate announcements from other Indian companies (Oberoi Realty, Kansai Nerolac Paints, NMDC, Dilip Buildcon, and V-Mart Retail), which have been omitted as they are not relevant to a DevOps or cloud engineering audience.