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General contract terms

Capacity & reservation terms ✓ Quote verified against source

Committed Units (committed-use); non-cancellable, pay whether used or not; future reservations discretionary; auto-renew

“Customer will pay the Fees for those Committed Units during the Committed Unit Term…”
Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts (CUDs): negotiated, not published (program page). Google publishes the mechanics of committed-use discounts for Compute Engine; specific negotiated enterprise commitment terms are not published.
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Data use & AI training ✓ Quote verified against source

Never trains on Customer Data without permission; prompt/output not stored beyond necessary absent permission

“Google will not use Customer Data to train or fine-tune any AI/ML models without…”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Suspension rights ✓ Quote verified against source

AUP breach: 24h notice-to-cure then suspend; immediate suspension for security/law/restrictions breach; non-payment

“Google may immediately Suspend all or part of Customer's use of the Services if”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Termination ✓ Quote verified against source

Customer may terminate for convenience anytime on notice; Google 30 days' notice for GCP; data access terminates on termination unless otherwise stated

“Google may terminate this Agreement or any applicable Order Form for its convenience at…”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Unilateral modification ✓ Quote verified against source

Google may update; material GCP updates effective 30 days after posting; law/new-functionality updates immediate

“material updates to this Agreement will become effective 30 days after they are posted”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Governing law & disputes ✓ Quote verified against source

California law; exclusive venue Santa Clara County courts; no arbitration; no class-action waiver stated

“GOVERNED BY CALIFORNIA LAW... LITIGATED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF SANTA…”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Liability caps & carveouts ✓ Quote verified against source

Cap = fees paid in 12 months before event ($5,000 for free); indirect/consequential waived; carveouts: IP, indemnity, payment, fraud

“limited to the Fees Customer paid for such Services during the 12 month period…”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Output IP indemnification ✓ Quote verified against source

Yes for paid Generative AI Indemnified Services; conditions: use safety tools, notice, necessary rights

“also apply to allegations that an unmodified Generated Output from a Generative AI Indemnified…”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Model deprecation & version pinning ✓ Quote verified against source

Contractual: at least 12 months' notice before discontinuing a Service unless replaced; Provisioned Throughput 6 months

“Google will notify Customer at least 12 months before: (i) discontinuing any Service”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Benchmarking & eval restrictions ✓ Quote verified against source

Permitted with conditions (must publish replication info + allow Google reciprocal); prohibited on behalf of hyperscaler without consent

“publicly disclose the results of such Tests only if (i) the public disclosure includes…”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

No-compete-training clauses ✓ Quote verified against source

any-model-training restricted: cannot use output to create/improve models similar to a Google Model

“create or improve models similar to a Google Model”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Capacity delivery remedies ✓ Quote verified against source

Committed Units: refund of unused prepaid Fees if Google non-renews/terminates/discontinues; delivery commitment silent

“Google will refund Customer any unused prepaid Fees following the expiration or termination”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Hardware substitution rights ✓ Quote verified against source

Capacity adjustments allowed provided no delay or adverse impact on cost/functionality/performance

“such actions do not delay delivery of the applicable capacity or adversely impact its…”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Assignment & financing clauses ✓ Quote verified against source

Consent-required except to Affiliate; no lender step-in/financing language

“Neither party may assign any part of this Agreement without the written consent of…”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Service level (SLA) terms

Availability definition ✓ Quote verified against source

instance-level and multi-zone; 99.99% multi-zone, 99.95% memory-optimized single, 99.9% other single (Premium)

“Instances in Multiple Zones >= 99.99%”
Source: Compute Engine Service Level Agreement · fetched 2026-07-14

Credit regime ✓ Quote verified against source

Tiered: 99.00-<99.99%=10%, 95.00-<99.00%=25%, <95.00%=100%; sole and exclusive remedy

“This SLA states Customer's sole and exclusive remedy for any failure by Google to…”
Source: Compute Engine Service Level Agreement · fetched 2026-07-14

Claim mechanics ✓ Quote verified against source

Customer must request within 60 days of eligibility; must provide log files showing Downtime Periods and dates/times

“notify Google technical support within 60 days from the time Customer becomes eligible”
Source: Compute Engine Service Level Agreement · fetched 2026-07-14

SLA exclusions ✓ Quote verified against source

Pre-GA/beta features, factors outside Google's control, customer/third-party hardware or software, AUP abuses, quotas

“errors (i) caused by factors outside of Google's reasonable control; (ii) that resulted from…”
Source: Compute Engine Service Level Agreement · fetched 2026-07-14

Data protection & privacy

International data transfer mechanism ✓ Quote verified against source

SCCs (EU C2P/P2P/P2C), UK Addendum, Swiss, Turkish SCCs, Brazil SCCs; Alternative Transfer Solution referenced

“the SCCs (Controller-to-Processor) or SCCs (Processor-to-Processor) will apply”
Source: Cloud Data Processing Addendum (CDPA) · fetched 2026-07-30

Data residency commitments ✓ Quote verified against source

Contractual: for listed Services, Customer selects Region/Multi-Region and Google stores at rest only there

“Google will store Customer Data for that Service at rest only within the selected…”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Sub-processor transparency ✓ Quote verified against source

Published list; 30 days' advance notice of new subprocessors; objection right via termination for convenience within 90 days

“at least 30 days before the New Subprocessor starts processing any Customer Data, notify…”
Source: Cloud Data Processing Addendum (CDPA) · fetched 2026-07-30

Government access commitments ✓ Quote verified against source

Challenge unlawful requests; notify data subject/exporter where possible; Transparency Report published; no backdoor

“The data importer agrees to review the legality of the request for disclosure”
Source: Google Cloud Third Party Subprocessors · fetched 2026-07-18

Retention & human review of content ✓ Quote verified against source

Automated safety tools; prompts may be logged for abuse review; humans may review to detect violations

“Google may log Customer prompts solely for the purpose of reviewing and determining whether…”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

Accountability & transparency

Prohibited high-risk uses ✓ Quote verified against source

Celebrity recognition not for surveillance; weapons via Maps prohibited; no High Risk Activities; facial recognition surveillance restricted

“only with professionally-filmed media content that Customer owns or is authorized to use, and…”
Source: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) · fetched 2026-07-30

Appeal & redress mechanisms ✓ Quote verified against source

For GWS/Cloud Identity suspensions Google gives Administrator ability to restore accounts; will notify basis on request

“Google will provide Customer's Administrator the ability to restore End User Accounts in certain…”
Source: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service · fetched 2026-07-14

EU AI Act role allocation No provision found

Reviewed Compute Engine Service Level Agreement and 7 other governing documents: no provision addresses this term.

Change history

Google Cloud: Cloud Data Processing Addendum (CDPA) dpa 2026-07-30

A hyperlink reference was updated from the general Google data center locations page to a specific Google Cloud data residency terms page for SecOps.

Data residency commitments

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https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ https://cloud.google.com/terms/secops/data-residency

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Google Cloud: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) ai_terms 2026-07-29

The document renames the product "Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience" to "CX Agent Studio" throughout web-grounding related clauses, and adds a new provision addressing Canada Controlled Goods, allowing use of Services with software/technical data subject to Canada's Defence Production Act and Controlled Goods Regulations when using specified Assured Workloads Services. The last modified date was also updated.

Data use & AI trainingGovernment access commitments

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Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience.… CX Agent Studio.… replaced with “When Customer uses Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience with web replaced with “When Customer uses CX Agent Studio with web are replaced with “Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience with web grounding”; are replaced with ”CX Agent Studio with web grounding”; e. Canada Controlled Goods. Notwithstanding any restriction on the access or use of Services for Canadian controlled goods in the Agreement, Customer may access or use the Services with software… (Last modified July 16, 2026) (Last modified July 29, 2026) July 16, 2026

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Google Cloud: Google Cloud Service Specific Terms (AI/ML data use) ai_terms 2026-07-17

The document renamed 'reCAPTCHA Enterprise' to 'Google Cloud Fraud Defense' throughout, and added a new section on Generative AI Safety and Abuse allowing Google to use automated tools to detect abuse of Generative AI Services and take action notwithstanding the standard prompt/output handling terms if AUP or Prohibited Use Policy violations are detected. The last modified date was also updated.

Data use & AI trainingSuspension rights

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reCAPTCHA Enterprise. Google Cloud Fraud Defense (formerly reCAPTCHA Enterprise). reCAPTCHA Enterprise may only be used to fight fraud and abuse on Google Cloud Fraud Defense may only be used to fight fraud and abuse on 4. Generative AI Safety and Abuse for GCP Services. Google uses automated safety tools to detect abuse of Generative AI Services. Notwithstanding the "Handling of Prompts and Generated Output" section… (Last modified June 8, 2026) (Last modified July 16, 2026) June 8, 2026

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Extracted 2026-07-30 15:16 UTC with claude-opus-4-8.