Promevo Execs: Google Has ‘Strong’ AI Lead Over AWS, Microsoft

‘We see a lot of people who might have been traditionally Azure or AWS, moving workloads over to Google specifically because of the AI and data stack,’ says Promevo CTO John Pettit.

Premier Google Cloud and AI specialist Promevo is bullish that Google will come out on top in the AI era due to cheaper AI workload prices, an open AI model strategy and owning the data stack.

“We see a lot of people who might have been traditionally Azure or AWS, moving workloads over to Google specifically because of the AI and data stack,” Promevo CTO John Pettit tells CRN. “The AI era has made Google a strong winner.”

Pettit said businesses can run their AI workloads much “cheaper” on Google Cloud infrastructure due to Google’s full stack of hardware and software.

“They have their own TPUs, so you can translate your more expensive workloads to run more gently on there. So they’re investing not just at the software layer, but the hardware stack. So the whole AI stack all the way up: data centers, energy, processors, software technology to support it, to make it more efficient in the algorithms you can run, and then the actual models themselves,” said Pettit.

Additionally, clients are clamoring for an open AI model portfolio that Google is currently offering via its Model Garden, which provides third-party large language models (LLMs) from Anthropic, Mistral AI and SpaceXAI, as well as Google’s own Gemini, Gemma and Veo models.

“We’ve seen a lot of people very interested in using Google for the flexibility: the open models that they have available; the scalability of the different models; and then just the innovation they’ve done around Gemini, especially Gemini 3,” Pettit said. “They’ve continued to push the envelope when it comes to the efficiency and effectiveness of the different models that they’ve deployed.”

Google Cloud’s 82 Percent Sales Growth Outpaces AWS And Microsoft

Promevo CEO Karthik Kripapuri says the proof is in Google Cloud’s sales, which are being driven by AI. “They are the fastest-growing hyperscaler,” he said.

In the second quarter of 2026, Google Cloud sales increased by 82 percent year over year (YoY) to nearly $25 billion.

Amazon Web Services year-over-year-sales growth was 37 percent in Q2 2026—less than half of Google Cloud’s growth rate—by generating $42 billion in revenue.

Google Cloud’s 82 percent growth rate was also much higher than Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud segment, which reported a 32 percent year-over-year sales growth by capturing around $39 billion in Q2 cloud revenue.

“What we hear from our client is, ‘Google has the full stack already built. I don’t have to worry about it. The models are already tuned. The hardware is ready. It is purpose-built from top to bottom—from the hardware and chips, all the way to the application of the top, and fully integrated. It’s integrated through every product that we use. And it’s open so we can use different models,” Promevo’s CEO said. “We see it in Google’s numbers.”

For example, Promevo just signed a strategic deal with AI-powered healthcare provider IntelliTek Health this month to support the migration, deployment, and advancement of IntelliTek Health’s AI platform on Google Cloud.

“Our role with IntelliTek Health isn’t just technical migration, it’s making sure their team and clients can operate with total confidence in the Google Cloud infrastructure and experience elite performance and outcomes,” Kripapuri said. “Few industries stand to benefit more from advanced AI capabilities than healthcare.”

‘Google’s Definitely Going To Be The Long-Term Winner’ In AI, CEO Says

On top of Google’s AI stack and integrations that drive cost savings and optimization, Promevo’s Pettit points to Google’s DeepMind AI group as a major differentiator.

“Of the three hyperscalers, they’re really the only ones who have gone this deep into the data stack and AI. Microsoft is kind of like OpenAI and kind of leaning-in through another party,” said Pettit. “The others don’t have a DeepMind group doing the same stuff.”

“People may deploy workloads on AWS and build their own models and use it for compute, but I think they’re looking at, ‘Who’s the best going forward?’ We feel very confident that we’re supporting the right partner. We feel like we’re positioned really well,” he said.

Kripapuri said Promevo doesn’t get “too worked up” about new AI innovation or models coming out in the short term because Google will win in the long run.

“So we don’t get too worked up about, ‘Oh, the efficiency in this new model from OpenAI is better than so and so’—we think that’s going to be a race that goes back and forth,” the CEO said. “But over the long run, for selling the full story to the enterprises—Google’s definitely going to be the long-term the winner in this space. We absolutely believe that.”