I had the opportunity to attend Google Cloud Next, held in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas from April 8th till 11th 2025. Google Cloud shows an impressive advance on infrastrucure and platform side. Google Cloud builds out its positon as leader for AI powered Next Generation Applications. Google makes agent creation easier, brings them to on premises with GDC, partners with Nvidia for GPUs on premises. Cloud WAN opens the Google Network, another differentiator. On the PaaS side, AlloyDB gains capabilties and is available via 3rd party on other clouds as well. Firestore gets MongoDB compatibility, Oracle @Google Cloud shows traction, and developers get access for Gemini across Firebase Studio.