PayPal said it was only able to do this thanks to Google’s ability to stagger workloads and scale compute resources up or down as required. The company runs the bulk of its online transactional data in a SAP S/4HANA database that’s hosted on Google Cloud in order to process transactions at high volume while analyzing trends with extremely low latency.Īt peak traffic times such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the U.S., the company was processing as many as 1,000 payments per second, it said, a 22% increase from one year before. PayPal said Google Cloud’s infrastructure has enabled it to add the capacity it needs to support its growth in a matter of hours, a process that would have taken months had it tried to do so alone.

It said it’s doing this because of a surge in digital commerce and user traffic over the last year that has led to a 24% spike in its total number of active customer accounts. PayPal, which forged its relationship with Google Cloud way back in 2016, and said today it will move even more of its core infrastructure and workloads to the platform as part of its wider hybrid cloud strategy. Google LLC said today it will provide PayPal with expanded cloud resources in order to help it process transactional data at massive scale. is betting on Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support its continued growth and will expand the use of that company’s services to accelerate its digital transformation plans.

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