• 2027 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Awards Application Form

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    Deadline: Friday, December 11, 2026, at 11:59 PM PST

    Before you apply: Review the Guidebook, Application Preview, and Official Rules.

    Please note:

    • Only prepare one comprehensive application for your company. 
    • You may attach one PDF with supplementary information at the end.
    • The Google Cloud team may consider your submission for additional awards.
    • Listed preferred criteria will benefit your application but is not required.
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    This year’s winners will receive:

    • Partner of the Year trophies
    • Promotional badges
    • Recognition in our Partner Directory
    • Press and social media features
    • Access to a special reception at Google Cloud Next ‘27

    Questions? Contact cloudpartnerawards2027@google.com.

  • *See the Official Rules

     

  • Partner information

    First, tell us about you and your organization.

  • To find your Partner ID and official Company Name:

    1. Log into Partner Network Hub
    2. Select your company
    3. Select account
    4. Copy & paste Name and ID below exactly as they appear

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  • My organization is a (select all that apply)*:*

  • *Based on your selection, the form will dynamically update to show only the award categories for which you are eligible.

     

  • Category selection

    Select your desired award categories from the list below. As you make your selections, a text box will appear for each, prompting you for award entry and detailed rationale.
  • Choose the Co-Sell or Services categories you'd like to enter:*
  • Choose the Technology categories you'd like to enter:*

  • Gemini

    This category recognizes partners that have demonstrated excellence in building, selling, and deploying Google agentic solutions, empowering customers to solve complex challenges and unlock powerful business transformation.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn about each award 


    •  Preferred criteria:
      Earned competency in Artificial Intelligence or Gemini

       

      Gemini: Global Innovation & Solutions
      This award recognizes a partner driving exceptional innovation by building groundbreaking Google Gemini solutions that solve complex customer challenges and deliver transformative business impact.


      Gemini: Global Sales & Services
      This award recognizes a partner driving excellence in Google Gemini adoption through strategic sales and expert service delivery, accelerating transformative growth and joint customer success.


      Gemini: Agentic Workplace Transformation
      This award recognizes a partner delivering innovative, Gemini-powered agentic solutions that completely transform enterprise workplace operations, optimize workflows, and solve critical business challenges.


      Gemini: Agent Development
      This award recognizes a partner demonstrating exceptional excellence in developing sophisticated Gemini agents that autonomously solve unique customer challenges and drive powerful business outcomes.


      Gemini: Deployment 
      This award recognizes a partner demonstrating excellence in deploying Google Gemini solutions and driving successful customer adoption at scale.


      Gemini: Competency Build
      This award recognizes a partner that has made exceptional investments in building deep Gemini expertise , upskilling their workforce, developing advanced solution and delivery capabilities, and guiding customers through change management to accelerate generative AI success.


      Gemini: Gemini for Industries Transformation
      This award recognizes a partner delivering tailored Gemini solutions that solve complex industry challenges and drive transformative customer outcomes.


      Gemini: Regional 
      This award recognizes a partner in the region driving transformative business impact by empowering customers to build and deploy innovative solutions with Google Gemini.

       

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    • Select all Gemini (Co-sell or Services) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600
    • Technology: Click here to learn about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Tier of Registered, Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Gemini: Global Agent Marketplace
      This award recognizes a partner driving exceptional innovation by building scalable, transformative AI agent solutions and accelerating customer adoption through Google Cloud Marketplace.


      Gemini: Global Business Processes
      This award recognizes a partner leveraging Google Cloud AI to build enterprise-grade solutions that modernize core workflows, optimize operations, and drive business transformation.


      Gemini: Global Security
      This award recognizes  a partner delivering breakthrough AI-driven security solutions on Google Cloud that proactively safeguard enterprises and neutralize complex threats.

       

      Gemini: Industries Transformation
      This award recognizes a partner delivering tailored Gemini solutions that solve complex industry challenges and drive transformative customer outcomes.

       

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    • Select all Gemini (Technology) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Data

    This category recognizes partners that have successfully deployed Google Cloud's data solutions, helping customers securely manage data at scale while extracting actionable insights to fuel business transformation.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned competency in Data & Analytics Or Databases

       

      Data: Agentic Data Cloud
      This award recognizes a partner driving business transformation by expertly deploying Agentic Data Cloud solutions and helping customers extract actionable insights from their data, create valuable inputs for AI, and fuel business transformation.


      Data: Regional 
      This award recognizes a partner in that region driving business transformation by expertly deploying Agentic Data Cloud solutions and helping customers extract actionable insights from their data, create valuable inputs for AI, and fuel business transformation.

       

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    • Select all Data (Co-sell or Services) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600
    • Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond
       

      Data: Intelligence Platform
      This award recognizes a partner deploying modern analytics platforms on Google Cloud that unify complex datasets, enabling customers to drive rapid, data-led business decisions.


      Data: Marketplace
      This award recognizes a partner with data and analytics products in Google Cloud Marketplace driving outstanding customer business outcomes.


      Data: Data Cloud
      This award recognizes a partner engineering robust data pipelines and governance frameworks that ensure enterprise compliance and empower customers to securely unlock the full value of their data at scale.

       

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    • Select all Data (Technology) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Google Workspace

    This category recognizes partners that excel in driving sales and delivering outstanding services for Google Workspace, empowering customers with innovative solutions that transform collaboration and productivity.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Google Workspace: Global 
      This award recognizes a partner demonstrating exceptional success in driving sales and service delivery for Google Workspace, empowering their customers to achieve transformative outcomes.

      Google Workspace: Regional
      This award recognizes a partner in the region demonstrating exceptional success in driving sales and service delivery for Google Workspace, empowering their customers to achieve transformative outcomes.


      Google Workspace: Online Service Provider
      This award recognizes a partner driving exceptional customer acquisition and adoption for Google Workspace via seamless digital experiences.

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    • Select all Google Workspace (Co-sell or Services) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600
    • Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
       Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Google Workspace: Innovation
      This award recognizes a partner whose innovative solutions on the Google Workspace platform significantly enhance collaboration and productivity across organizations.


      Google Workspace: Impact
      This award recognizes a partner whose Google Workspace solutions deliver a measurable and transformative impact on collaboration and productivity, driving significant improvements for their customers.


      Google Workspace: Platform
      This award recognizes a partner whose solutions expand the reach and capabilities of the Google Workspace platform, resulting in a significant enhancement of collaboration and productivity across diverse organizations.


      Google Workspace: Google Workspace with Gemini
      This award recognizes a partner leveraging Gemini for Google Workspace to build innovative solutions showcasing the transformative power of AI.

       

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    • Select all Google Workspace (Technology) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Infrastructure Modernization

    This category recognizes partners that have helped their customers modernize their infrastructure by leveraging Google Cloud's innovative solutions, resulting in increased agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn more about each award 

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      Preferred criteria:
      Earned competency in Infrastructure 

       

      Infrastructure Modernization: Global 
      This award recognizes a partner that helps their customers modernize their infrastructure by leveraging Google Cloud's innovative solutions, resulting in increased agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.


      Infrastructure Modernization: Regional
      This award recognizes a partner in the region that helps their customers modernize their infrastructure by leveraging Google Cloud's innovative solutions, resulting in increased agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.


      Infrastructure Modernization: Application Modernization
      This award recognizes a partner with deep expertise in transforming legacy applications, helping customers modernize their application portfolio, increase development velocity, scalability, and operational efficiency on Google Cloud.


      Infrastructure Modernization: Sovereign Cloud
      This award recognizes a partner demonstrating expertise and commitment in implementing Google's sovereign cloud solutions by offering customers the choice and security needed to meet their most demanding regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.

       

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    • Select all Infrastructure Modernization (Co-sell or Services) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600
    • Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 

    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Infrastructure Modernization: Backup/DR
      This award recognizes a partner that enables their customers to excel by helping them achieve high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery on Google Cloud.


      Infrastructure Modernization: Compute
      This award recognizes a partner that helps their customers excel by migrating, optimizing, or modernizing workloads on Google Cloud's global, secure, and reliable infrastructure.


      Infrastructure Modernization: Marketplace
      This award recognizes a partner with infrastructure products in Google Cloud Marketplace that drive outstanding customer business outcomes.


      Infrastructure Modernization: Storage
      This award recognizes a partner that helps their customers excel by providing solutions for scalable, performant, secure storage with Google Cloud infrastructure.

       

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    • Select all Infrastructure Modernization (Technology) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Security

    This category recognizes partners that have effectively implemented Google Cloud's security solutions, safeguarding their customers' data and infrastructure from evolving threats.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned competency in Security

       

      Security: Global
      This award recognizes a partner that effectively implements Google Cloud's security solutions, safeguarding their customers' data and infrastructure from evolving threats.


      Security: AI-Powered Managed Security Service Provider 
      This award recognizes a partner delivering AI-driven managed security, proactive threat intelligence, and expert incident response to protect customers on Google Cloud.


      Security: Regional
      This award recognizes a partner in the region that effectively implements Google Cloud's security solutions, safeguarding their customers' data and infrastructure from evolving threats.

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    • Select all Security (Co-sell or Services) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600
    • Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Security: Analytics & Operations
      This award recognizes a partner that demonstrates exceptional leadership and innovation in developing transformative solutions for security analytics and operations, leveraging Google Cloud technologies.


      Security: Application
      This award recognizes a partner that expertly augments security for applications running on Google Cloud via software supply chain security or via layer 7 application protection.


      Security: Data Protection
      This award recognizes a partner that expertly augments Google Cloud security solutions to protect their customers' data from unauthorized access, as well as internal and external threats, through encryption, key management, and policy-driven data loss prevention controls.


      Security: Identity & Access Management
      This award recognizes a partner that demonstrates exceptional leadership and innovation in developing transformative solutions for identity and access management, leveraging Google Cloud technologies.


      Security: Infrastructure Protection
      This award recognizes a partner that demonstrates exceptional leadership and innovation in developing transformative solutions for infrastructure protection, leveraging Google Cloud technologies.


      Security: Marketplace
      This award recognizes a partner with security products in Google Cloud Marketplace that safeguard joint customers and drive outstanding outcomes.


      Security: Workload Security
      This award recognizes a partner that demonstrates exceptional leadership and innovation in developing transformative solutions for workload security, leveraging Google Cloud technologies.

       

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    • Select all Security (Technology) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Services and Industry Solutions

    This category recognizes partners that leveraged Google Cloud solutions to create comprehensive and compelling solutions that made a significant impact in one industry across multiple regions.
    • Services: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned competency in designated industry solution, if applicable

      Services & Industry Solutions: Global Advisory & Consulting
      This award recognizes a global partner that delivers exceptional advisory, consulting, and thought leadership, directly enabling customers to define and accelerate their cloud transformation on Google Cloud.

      Services & Industry Solutions: Global Breakthrough
      This award recognizes a partner that achieves a landmark breakthrough, such as significant global growth or a transformative customer success, fundamentally raising the bar for excellence in the ecosystem.


      Services & Industry Solutions: Global Industry Solutions
      This award recognizes a partner that helps customers in their specific field achieve outstanding success through Google Cloud.


      Services & Industry Solutions: Global Services
      This award recognizes a partner that leverages Google Cloud solutions to create comprehensive and compelling solutions that make a significant impact in one industry across multiple regions.


      Services & Industry Solutions: [Specific Industry]
      This award recognizes a partner within a designated industry that helps customers achieve outstanding success through Google Cloud.

       

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    • Select all Services and Industry Solutions (Services) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Country

    This category recognizes partners that have demonstrated exceptional expertise in leveraging their services and solution capabilities to drive sales and deliver outstanding outcomes for Google Cloud customers.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

      Country: Regional
      These awards recognize a partner demonstrating exceptional expertise in delivering Google Cloud solutions to drive transformative growth and outstanding customer success in the region. 

       

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    • Select the Country (Co-sell or Services) award you are applying for.*
    • 0/600

  • Channel

    This category recognizes partners that have achieved exceptional scale and market reach, driving rapid customer adoption and exponential growth across the Google Cloud ecosystem through innovative distribution.
    • Co-sell: Click here to learn about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Channel: Distribution - Innovation
      This award recognizes a partner driving exceptional innovation in distribution, pioneering new go-to-market strategies that empower the channel and accelerate joint customer success.


      Channel: Distribution - Market Research
      This award recognizes a partner achieving outstanding scale and market reach, driving exponential growth and co-sell success across the Google Cloud ecosystem.


      Channel: Neocloud
      This award recognizes a partner driving rapid customer adoption and co-sell growth by delivering high-performance AI compute and specialized infrastructure built on Google Cloud.


      Channel: Telecommunications
      This award recognizes a partner in telecommunications driving innovative distribution and exceptional scale to accelerate co-sell growth and joint customer success.

       

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    • Select all Channel awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • AI Models

    This category recognizes partners delivering innovative AI foundation models on Google Cloud Marketplace that empower joint customers to accelerate AI adoption and achieve rapid time-to-value.
    • Technology: Click here to learn about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      AI Models: Marketplace 
      This award recognizes a partner delivering innovative AI foundation models on Google Cloud Marketplace that empower joint customers to accelerate AI adoption and achieve rapid time-to-value.

       

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  • Developer

    This category recognizes partners that have delivered transformative developer platforms and tooling on Google Cloud, empowering engineering teams to accelerate velocity and ship higher-quality software faster.
    • Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Developer: Developer Platform
      This award recognizes a partner delivering superior developer platform experiences on Google Cloud that eliminate operational friction and empower joint customers to ship higher-quality software faster.


      Developer: Developer Tooling
      This award recognizes a partner delivering transformative DevSecOps and tooling solutions on Google Cloud that accelerate developer velocity and seamlessly integrate security throughout the software lifecycle.


      Developer: Marketplace
      This award recognizes a partner on Google Cloud Marketplace delivering exceptional developer tools that accelerate engineering velocity and drive transformative business outcomes.


      Developer: Observability Platforms
      This award recognizes a partner providing observability and DevOps solutions to optimize, monitor, and scale modern cloud applications.

       

       

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    • Select all Developer awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Public Sector

    This category recognizes partners that have provided exceptional service and enabled the success of their public sector customers by innovating, building, and delivering the right combination of Google Cloud solutions.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn more about this award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Public Sector: Global
      This award recognizes a partner that provides exceptional service and enables the success of their public sector customers by innovating, building, and delivering the right combination of Google Cloud solutions. 


      Public Sector: Regional 
      This award recognizes a partner in the region that provides exceptional service and enables the success of their public sector customers by innovating, building, and delivering the right combination of Google Cloud solutions.


      Public Sector: US State & Local Government
      This award recognizes a partner with a solutions-based focus that addresses the needs of state and local governments by leveraging Google Cloud or Google Workspace offerings.


      Public Sector: US Higher Education
      This award recognizes a partner delivering innovative Google Cloud solutions that modernize campus technology, enhance learning experiences, and drive transformative student outcomes.


      Public Sector: US Federal - Department of War
      This award recognizes a partner delivering exceptional Google Cloud solutions that advance critical military objectives and securely accelerate Department of War mission requirements.


      Public Sector: US Federal - National Security
      This award recognizes a partner with a solutions-based focus that addresses national security needs by leveraging Google Cloud or Google Workspace offerings.


      Public Sector: US Federal - Civilian
      This award recognizes a partner with a solutions-based focus that addresses the needs of federal agencies with a civilian focus leveraging Google Cloud or Google Workspace offerings. 

       

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    • Select all Public Sector (Co-sell or Services) awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600
    • Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Public Sector: US Technology
      This award recognizes a partner delivering innovative software and platform solutions on Google Cloud tailored to modernize and transform public sector government operations.

       

       

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    • 0/600

  • Talent Development

    This category recognizes partners that are committed to growing and promoting their team's cloud skills through training, upskilling, and reskilling their workforce on leading-edge cloud technology with Google Cloud certifications.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Talent Development: Global
      This award recognizes a partner committed to growing and promoting their team's cloud skills through training, upskilling, and reskilling their workforce on leading-edge cloud technology with Google Cloud certifications.


      Talent Development: Regional 
      This award recognizes a partner in the region that is committed to growing and promoting their team's cloud skills through training, upskilling, and reskilling their workforce on leading-edge cloud technology with Google Cloud certifications.

       

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    • Select all Talent Development awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Training

    This category recognizes partners that have provided exceptional training services and enabled customer success by innovating, building, and delivering the right combination of Google Cloud solutions through learning.
    • Co-sell: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Authorized Training Partner (ATP)

      Training: Global
      This award recognizes a partner that provides exceptional training services and enables customer success by innovating, building, and delivering the right combination of Google Cloud solutions through learning.


      Training: Regional 
      This award recognizes a partner in the region that provides exceptional training services and enables customer success by innovating, building, and delivering the right combination of Google Cloud solutions through learning.

       

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    • Select all Training awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Geospatial

    Recognizes a partner pioneering innovative solutions using Google geospatial technologies to solve complex location-based challenges.
    • Co-sell, Services, or Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
       Earned competency in Maps

      Geospatial: Global
      This award recognizes a partner pioneering innovative solutions using Google geospatial technologies to solve complex location-based challenges.

        

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    • 0/600

  • Social Impact

    This award recognizes partners that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to driving positive social impact through innovative solutions and initiatives within their organizations.
    • Co-sell, Services, Technology: Click here to learn more about each award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

      Social Impact: Community Empowerment & Resilience
      This award recognizes a partner dedicated to fostering community-led growth and resilience, empowering people to overcome challenges and build stronger, more self-sufficient futures.


      Social Impact: Ethical & Responsible Technology
      This award recognizes a partner for their deep commitment to ethical and responsible technology, prioritizing fairness, transparency, and human values throughout the entire product lifecycle.


      Social Impact: Accessibility Innovation
      This award recognizes a partner fostering a community driving groundbreaking solutions to enhance accessibility and inclusivity.

        

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    • Select all Social Impact awards you are applying for. You will provide a single, combined rationale for all selections below.*
    • 0/600

  • Marketplace

    This award recognizes a partner that demonstrates exceptional service and expertise to drive sales and deliver outstanding outcomes to Google Cloud and ecosystem customers by reselling solutions through Google Cloud Marketplace.
    • Co-sell or Services: Click here to learn more about this award 


    • Preferred criteria:
      Earned tier of Select, Premier, or Diamond

       

      Marketplace: Global
      Recognizes a partner that demonstrates exceptional service and expertise to drive sales and deliver outstanding outcomes to Google Cloud and ecosystem customers by reselling solutions through Google Cloud Marketplace.

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    • 0/600

  • Final step

    Click the Submit button to send your application. You will receive a copy of your submission with a unique URL via email to edit your responses any time before the Dec. 11 deadline.
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