Case Study: GT Group achieves agile, scalable app development and major cost savings with Google Cloud Platform

Building successful apps to improve customer experience with developer-friendly cloud resources

GT Group, a Hong Kong-based mobile innovation company behind GreenTomato, Hong Kong Movie, Talkbox, and more than 500 apps, needed a more agile, flexible, and scalable infrastructure for app development and client projects. Before moving to Google Cloud Platform, the team faced limits with on-premises systems, slower VM setup, and downtime risks as traffic and data needs grew.

With Google Cloud Platform products such as Compute Engine, App Engine, Firebase, Firestore, Google Workspace, and Kubernetes Engine, GT Group migrated key apps and development workflows to the cloud. The result was faster VM deployment, 80% lower instance costs for testing with preemptible VMs, 20% lower VM costs from right-sizing recommendations, 30% savings from App Engine autoscaling, and reduced data center maintenance from 10 days a year to zero.

GT Group

Stephen Wong

Co-Founder