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Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences Extends Google Kubernetes Engine Across Platform Operations
Edwards Lifesciences, a health care organization in the United States, uses Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud to support platform operations for infrastructure and application teams.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because cloud landing zones has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in platform operations sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Google Kubernetes Engine is the governed place infrastructure and application teams use for platform operations |
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Inside Edwards Lifesciences, platform operations used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in health care groups working out of the United States. Infrastructure and application teams needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Edwards Lifesciences uses Google Kubernetes Engine from Google Cloud as the working layer for cloud landing zones. Google Cloud provides infrastructure, analytics, and AI services, including BigQuery and Vertex AI, for data-heavy and machine learning workloads. The practical change is simple: platform operations has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Edwards Lifesciences gets from Google Cloud is a durable place to run platform operations and a way for infrastructure and application teams to see the same cloud landing zones at the same time.
