Elon Musk's SpaceX and Google have joined forces to to deliver data, cloud services, and applications to customers at the network edge. Google Cloud provides customers with computing resources for developing, deploying and operating applications on the internet. This service offers a secure cloud service, which Google can now list on its features when it rolls out capabilities with Starlink. Google is not the only tech giant taking advantage of Musk's internet satellite constellation, as Microsoft won a similar deal in October 2020 to connect its Azure cloud computing platform to Starlink. However, rival Amazon is ramping up to create its own internet satellite constellation, which could launch more than 3,000 devices.

Source: The Nation May 13, 2021 20:04 UTC