Does Google Cloud's SOC 2 report cover our own SOC 2?

No. Google Cloud's own SOC 2 report covers the controls Google Cloud operates for its platform. Your examination covers how your company configures and uses Google Cloud: who has access, how it is authenticated, what is logged and how data in it is protected. Auditors read the vendor's report to decide what they can rely on, and the Vendor and Third-Party Risk Management Policy tells you to collect it at onboarding and annually.

What does the generator pre-fill when I arrive from this page?

The link on this page opens the generator with a preset that sets the cloud platform to GCP. The other answers (company, product, headcount, owners, data types, scope and review cadence) are yours to fill in. The policies render in your browser as Markdown; nothing is sent to a server and there is no signup.

Which policies change when I add Google Cloud to my answers?

6 policies name Google Cloud once it is in the intake: Access Control Policy, Encryption and Key Management Policy, Logging and Monitoring Policy, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy, Backup and Recovery Policy, Network and Infrastructure Security Policy. The free generator names it in scope, roles and procedures; the Audit Kit ($39 one-time) rewrites sections 4 and 5 of each policy with statements specific to how Google Cloud is configured, like the examples on this page. Refunds are available within 14 days on request.

SOC 2 policies for Google Cloud teams

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Google Cloud hosts your production environment, so it appears wherever the policies talk about who can reach production, how data is encrypted, what is logged, how services recover and how the network is segmented.

Cloud platforms · Referenced by 6 of 22 policies · Generator preset available

The 6 policies that reference Google Cloud

With Google Cloud in your intake, these policies name it in their scope, roles and procedures. The other 16 policies in the set apply to your company regardless of tooling; the template index lists all 22.

P03 Access Control Policy: Defines how access to systems and data is requested, approved, provisioned, reviewed and removed.
P08 Encryption and Key Management Policy: Sets minimum encryption standards for data in transit and at rest and defines how cryptographic keys, secrets and certificates are generated, stored, rotated and retired.
P12 Logging and Monitoring Policy: Defines which security-relevant events are logged across the product, cloud and corporate systems, how logs are protected and retained, and how alerts are triaged and acted on.
P14 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy: Sets recovery objectives by system tier, defines how a disaster is declared and recovered from, and requires the plan to be tested and maintained.
P15 Backup and Recovery Policy: Requires every data set that supports the product and the business to be backed up on a defined schedule, protected, monitored and proven restorable through regular tests.
P20 Network and Infrastructure Security Policy: Defines how the cloud networks, compute and supporting infrastructure behind the product are segmented, hardened, administered and monitored.

What the Audit Kit writes for Google Cloud

The free generator fills in names. The Audit Kit goes further: Claude rewrites section 4 (Policy Statements) and section 5 (Procedures) of each policy using your full intake, so the text describes Google Cloud the way you actually run it. The statements below are examples of that output for Google Cloud; your own answers produce different text, and every statement should be checked against your configuration before management adopts it.

P03 Access Control Policy

Access to Google Cloud projects is granted to Cloud Identity groups, never to individual users, using predefined or custom IAM roles scoped to the narrowest resource that fits. The basic Owner and Editor roles are not assigned to people in production projects, and IAM Recommender excess-permission findings are actioned at each quarterly access review.

P08 Encryption and Key Management Policy

Cloud Storage buckets, Persistent Disks and Cloud SQL instances that hold customer data use Cloud KMS customer-managed encryption keys with a 365-day rotation period, and application secrets live in Secret Manager with per-secret IAM bindings rather than in environment files or source code.

P12 Logging and Monitoring Policy

Cloud Audit Logs Admin Activity logs are retained for at least 400 days and Data Access logs are enabled for Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL and Secret Manager. An organization-level aggregated sink routes every audit log to a dedicated logging project with a locked bucket retention policy, and Security Command Center findings are triaged weekly.

P14 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy

Production services are deployed as regional Cloud Run services or regional GKE clusters behind a global external Application Load Balancer with health checks, and Cloud SQL instances run in high-availability configuration with a standby in a second zone. The disaster recovery runbook documents promotion of the cross-region read replica and the most recent test date.

P15 Backup and Recovery Policy

Cloud SQL automated backups run daily with point-in-time recovery enabled and seven days of transaction log retention, and an on-demand backup is exported weekly to a Cloud Storage bucket in a second region with a locked 90-day retention policy. A restore into an isolated project is performed and documented quarterly.

P20 Network and Infrastructure Security Policy

Compute resources use private IP addresses only and reach Google APIs through Private Google Access. VPC firewall rules deny ingress by default with firewall rule logging enabled, and internet-facing services sit behind Cloud Armor security policies that apply the preconfigured OWASP rules and rate-based throttling on authentication endpoints.

How to use this page

Open the generator with the Google Cloud preset and answer the remaining questions: company, product, headcount, other tools, data types, owners, scope and review cadence.
Download the 22 policies as Markdown. Read the sections that mention Google Cloud with the admin console open and fix anything that is not true of your setup.
Optionally buy the Audit Kit to have sections 4 and 5 tailored to Google Cloud and the rest of your stack, and to get Word documents, the TSC crosswalk, an evidence checklist, acknowledgment forms and a review calendar in one ZIP built on your machine.
Have management approve the policies, collect acknowledgments, and start producing the evidence the procedures describe. The CPA firm performs the examination.

Other tools

Cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Vercel, Cloudflare

Source control and CI: GitHub, GitLab

Identity providers: Google Workspace, Okta, Microsoft 365

Vendors and subprocessors: Supabase, Clerk

Frequently asked questions

Does Google Cloud's SOC 2 report cover our own SOC 2?: No. Google Cloud's own SOC 2 report covers the controls Google Cloud operates for its platform. Your examination covers how your company configures and uses Google Cloud: who has access, how it is authenticated, what is logged and how data in it is protected. Auditors read the vendor's report to decide what they can rely on, and the Vendor and Third-Party Risk Management Policy tells you to collect it at onboarding and annually.
What does the generator pre-fill when I arrive from this page?: The link on this page opens the generator with a preset that sets the cloud platform to GCP. The other answers (company, product, headcount, owners, data types, scope and review cadence) are yours to fill in. The policies render in your browser as Markdown; nothing is sent to a server and there is no signup.
Which policies change when I add Google Cloud to my answers?: 6 policies name Google Cloud once it is in the intake: Access Control Policy, Encryption and Key Management Policy, Logging and Monitoring Policy, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy, Backup and Recovery Policy, Network and Infrastructure Security Policy. The free generator names it in scope, roles and procedures; the Audit Kit ($39 one-time) rewrites sections 4 and 5 of each policy with statements specific to how Google Cloud is configured, like the examples on this page. Refunds are available within 14 days on request.

Policyseed provides governance policy templates and AI tailoring. It is not legal advice and not a compliance guarantee. Management adopts the policies; the CPA firm performs the SOC 2 examination.