Tensor Processing Units are a technology developed and owned by Google. While you can find GPUs in every cloud provider offer, the TPUs are currently only available through Google Cloud Platform . Situation when you invest in a technology or a service that is not available anywhere else is called vendor lock-in — it's something the sales people love, while customers try to avoid it. What does this look like for TPUs? Let's see.

Myth 5: TPUs are available only through Google Cloud Platform

As of today (December 12th, 2025) it is still true that TPUs are available only through Google Cloud Platform. If you develop your application to work specifically with the TPU technology, leverage all its strong sides and account for all the limitations, moving to a different provider would be a big challenge. Luckily, as you may remember from the first myth busting post , GPUs can do everything that TPUs do.…