On September 26, 2017, Google Cloud announced that it acquired Bitium,4 a step towards better management of enterprise-grade cloud customer services across an organization, through integration of features like setting security levels and access policies for applications.567 At the end of September 2018, Bitium announced that it would close down all accounts for customers outside the United States, Canada and Mexico at the end of 2018.
Bitium was fully merged with Google Cloud and ceased to exist in 2019. However, some of its technology is still used by Google.
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