Elastic received the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award in the Marketplace category for Data Management & AI.
This marks the fifth year Elastic has been recognized by Google Cloud, reflecting continued collaboration to help joint customers deploy Generative AI solutions that deliver meaningful impact through faster development cycles, significant performance gains and lower operational costs.
“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, president, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Elastic a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”
Elastic works closely with Google Cloud across Search, Observability, and Security, with integrations that allow customers to use Elastic as a data foundation for AI applications built on Vertex AI and Gemini. As the only partner natively integrated into Google Vertex AI, Elastic’s unified data platform serves as a grounding engine for Gemini, enabling more accurate, contextual responses using enterprise data.
The partnership is also helping to drive the next generation of Agentic AI by providing tools that accelerate the creation, deployment and management of AI-powered applications on Google Cloud.
For example, development teams can now easily build applications with Elastic’s new AI agent for Gemini Enterprise available on the Google Cloud Agent Marketplace, and seamlessly access Elasticsearch while coding through the extension for the Gemini CLI and the MCP Toolbox for Databases. Additionally, native support for Gemini reasoning and generation models on the Elastic Inference Service allows developers to build grounded, production-ready AI applications faster without the growing complexity and cost of managing infrastructure.
“This recognition reflects the strength of our partnership with Google Cloud to deliver the integration, performance and security customers need to succeed with AI,” said Alyssa Fitzpatrick, global vice president, Partner Sales at Elastic. “Together we are accelerating innovation by reshaping how enterprises build and deploy GenAI applications that drive measurable business impact.”
The partnership also features a tighter, two-way model collaboration that ensures native alignment with Google Cloud infrastructure for an improved developer experience. Elastic integrates Gemini and Vertex AI models in its inference API and vector search database, and has recently made its Jina models available on Google Cloud Model Garden on Vertex AI, bringing high-performance retrieval models closer to where enterprise AI applications already run.
Elastic continues to collaborate with Google Cloud on providing customers with an agent-ready AI platform that empowers them to unlock new levels of efficiency, productivity and innovation.
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