Atlassian and Google Cloud Forge Strategic Partnership to Drive AI-Powered Productivity for Millions
Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM), a global leader in team collaboration and productivity software, has announced a groundbreaking multi-year partnership with Google Cloud. This collaboration aims to accelerate cloud transformation and deliver advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to customers worldwide. By integrating Atlassian’s AI-powered teamwork platform—including flagship products like Jira, Confluence, and Loom—with Google Cloud’s AI-optimized infrastructure, the partnership will empower organizations to build intelligent agents, enhance collaboration, and drive innovation at scale.
This alliance marks a significant milestone in Atlassian’s multi-cloud strategy, as it brings its widely adopted apps to Google Cloud for the first time. Customers will now be able to access Atlassian solutions through the Google Cloud Marketplace, allowing them to leverage pre-allocated Google Cloud funds for streamlined procurement of Atlassian subscriptions.
“Atlassian’s mission has always been to unleash the potential of every team, and this partnership with Google Cloud represents a major leap forward on that journey,” said Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder. “By combining our leading teamwork platform and AI offering, Rovo, with Google’s cutting-edge AI and cloud infrastructure, we’re enabling customers to build the next generation of intelligent agents with advanced capabilities like complex reasoning, deep thinking, and multimodal inputs. Together, we’re making it easier for organizations everywhere to collaborate, innovate, and scale.”
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, echoed this sentiment, stating, “Atlassian is making a significant, long-term commitment for customers on Google Cloud, bringing the power of our Gemini models and Google Workspace to customers globally. With its core products like Jira and Confluence running on our trusted infrastructure, we will help enterprises accelerate innovation with agentic AI.”
A Multi-Cloud Strategy Built for Resilience and Innovation
Atlassian Cloud is purpose-built to meet the needs of the world’s most complex organizations, delivering enterprise-grade security, compliance, and extensibility at every layer. Over 300,000 customers, including some of the largest global enterprises, rely on Atlassian Cloud to address their most pressing challenges.
With Atlassian apps now available on Google Cloud, customers will benefit from a modern, resilient platform powered by Google Cloud’s industry-leading infrastructure. Services like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Spanner ensure world-class security, privacy, and reliability, providing organizations with the tools they need to thrive in an increasingly digital-first world.
“Our collaboration with Google Cloud signals a new chapter for our customers,” said Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian. “Together, we’re paving the way for a future where multi-cloud, AI-driven innovation, and seamless teamwork become everyday realities for organizations everywhere. Our customers have made it clear: adopting the cloud is the future. We’re dedicated to making that transition faster and smoother by delivering an exceptional Atlassian Cloud experience for every customer.”
Elevating Atlassian Rovo with Advanced AI Integration
Atlassian’s AI offerings, such as Rovo, are designed to harness insights from over two decades of teamwork data to deliver personalized search, chat, and agentic workflows. Already boasting 2.3 million monthly active users, Rovo has been shown to reduce manual work by up to four times for some organizations.
Through deeper integration with Google Cloud’s AI capabilities, including Vertex AI and Gemini models, Rovo will enable customers to build agents and skills with advanced functionalities like complex reasoning, deep thinking, and multimodal inputs (voice, text, image). These capabilities will unlock transformative workflows, including:
- Unifying project updates: Seamlessly integrate project updates, requirements, release calendars, code reviews, and documentation across Google Workspace and Atlassian platforms, ensuring teams remain aligned on goals and timelines.
- Leveraging cross-platform insights: Combine insights from Jira, Confluence, Google Docs, and Gmail to create and manage content—such as release notes and marketing materials—ensuring communications are consistent and milestone-driven.
- Enabling Agent2Agent (A2A) interoperability: Allow Rovo agents to collaborate with other A2A-enabled agents, fostering a new era of interconnected AI-driven workflows.
Transforming Team Collaboration Across Atlassian and Google Workspace
Joint customers will also experience enhanced productivity and collaboration through seamless integrations between Google Workspace and Atlassian apps. Key benefits include:
- Accessing the right information instantly: Surface the most relevant context from tools like Gmail, Calendar, and Docs directly within the Atlassian suite, ensuring teams always have the knowledge they need, wherever their work happens.
- Boosting productivity with AI: Use Gemini to query knowledge in Confluence and take action in Jira, enabling teams to move from insight to action without delay.
- Accelerating project delivery: Perform actions in Jira and Confluence directly from Gmail, Chat, and Docs, creating truly seamless workflows that empower teams to effortlessly create and update work items using AI-powered actions.
Empowering Global Enterprises with AI, Scale, and Seamless Integrations
Through this partnership, global enterprises will benefit from advanced AI capabilities, scalability, and seamless integrations between Atlassian and Google Cloud. Both companies are committed to empowering customers to innovate and collaborate with confidence as they grow on Atlassian Cloud.
By leveraging Google Cloud’s AI-optimized infrastructure and integrating with Google Workspace and Gemini models, Atlassian is poised to redefine how teams collaborate and innovate in the digital age. The partnership not only strengthens Atlassian’s position as a leader in teamwork and productivity software but also sets a new standard for AI-driven solutions in the enterprise space.
About Atlassian
Atlassian unleashes the potential of every team. A recognized leader in software development, work management, and enterprise service management software, Atlassian enables enterprises to connect their business and technology teams with an AI-powered system of work that unlocks productivity at scale. Atlassian’s collaboration software powers over 80% of the Fortune 500 and 300,000+ customers worldwide – including NASA, Rivian, Deutsche Bank, United Airlines, and Bosch – who rely on our solutions to drive work forward.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated, and optimized AI stack with its own planet‑scale infrastructure, custom‑built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI‑powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.
About Google Workspace
Google Workspace is a suite of productivity apps, including Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Meet, Vids, and more, that are trusted by more than 3 billion users and over 11 million paying customers. Google Workspace helps people and teams do their best work across any device, from anywhere. AI has been used in Google Workspace for years to improve grammar, efficiency, security, and more with features like Smart Reply, Smart Compose, and malware and phishing protection in Gmail. Now, Google Workspace with Gemini brings AI into the entire suite.
