SAN JOSE, Calif.—PayPal Holdings plans to move several core payment-processing applications to Google Cloud as the company experiences an upswing in activity fueled by changing consumer spending habits, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The migration, part of the digital payments company’s ongoing move to host all its applications in the public cloud, includes PayPal peer-to-peer payments, merchant checkout and bill-payment apps, as well as user account management, the company told The Journal.
The Journal said PayPal declined to provide a scheduled completion date. Neither PayPal nor the Google LLC unit would detail terms of the latest Google Cloud contract. Google Cloud and Google are part of Alphabet Inc.
Software Development Began in 2017
PayPal in 2017 moved software development and testing to Google Cloud and last year moved some payment processing for the Western U.S. from its own computer infrastructure to the cloud-service provider, although it declined to provide specifics.
“By moving into the cloud, we can actually capitalize on the fact that we can just pay for the capacity that we use in the cloud,” Wes Hummel, PayPal’s vice president of site reliability and cloud engineering, told The Journal. “We’re not paying for unused capacity that’s sitting in our data center.”