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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Google Cloud and PayPal today announced they are deepening their relationship to further accelerate PayPal s digital transformation and evolving customer needs. Under this expanded relationship, Google Cloud will provide both infrastructure and analytics capabilities to support PayPal s growth, helping the company process transactional data at massive scale.
Following exponential growth since it became an independent company in 2015, PayPal set out to scale its infrastructure globally, while also creating new products and services for customers. As a major step forward in its hybrid cloud strategy, PayPal is moving more of its core infrastructure and workloads to Google Cloud. One key reason for this shift is the surge in digital commerce and user traffic triggered by the global pandemic, which led to a 24% spike in PayPal s total active customer accounts, now totalling 392 mi