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Google Cloud Introduces Geo-Partitioning for Spanner: Reduced Latency and Cost Optimization
Google Cloud has announced adding geo-partitioning to Spanner, its fully-managed, globally distributed database. According to the company, this new feature aims to improve performance and user experience for geographically dispersed applications and users while optimizing operational costs.
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Uber’s Journey to Modernizing Big Data Infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform
In a recent post on its official engineering blog, Uber, disclosed its strategy to migrate the batch data analytics and machine learning (ML) training stack to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Uber, runs one of the largest Hadoop installations in the world, managing over an exabyte of data across tens of thousands of servers in each of its two regions
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Google Cloud Introduces Hierarchical Namespace for Cloud Storage in Preview
Google Cloud has announced a significant update to its Cloud Storage services by introducing the Hierarchical Namespace (HNS). Now available in preview, this new feature allows users to organize their storage buckets in a hierarchical file system structure, enhancing performance, consistency, and manageability.
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Google Provides Extended Support for Cloud SQL MySQL and PostgreSQL End-of-Life Versions
Google Cloud has announced extended support for end-of-life Cloud SQL MySQL and PostgreSQL versions to help users maintain database operations and plan upgrades more efficiently. Starting February 1, 2025, versions such as MySQL 5.6, 5.7 and PostgreSQL 9.6 to 12 will enter an extended support phase, allowing customers to continue using these versions beyond their standard support dates.
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Google Cloud Introduces Customizable Dashboards
Google Cloud has recently expanded its customizable observability dashboards to over 10 services, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Dataflow, MySQL System Insights, and a few others.
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AWS Fargate Significantly Improves Windows Container Launch Times
AWS has announced improved launch times for Windows containers running on AWS Fargate. Launch times were improved by pre-baking the AMIs, leveraging EC2 fast launch, and eliminating the network proxy. The team has also provided recommendations for users to further enhance their container launch times.
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Enhanced Security for Enterprises: Google Launches Google Threat Intelligence
At the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google Cloud introduced Google Threat Intelligence, a new security offering for large organizations. The new solution provides users with actionable insights, external threat monitoring, attack surface management, digital risk protection, and in-depth analysis of Indicators of Compromise (IOC).
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GitLab and Google Cloud Join Forces to Streamline Development and Enhance Security
At Google Cloud Next ‘24, GitLab announced a series of integrations aimed at enhancing the developer experience and streamlining cloud-based development workflows. These integrations, now in public beta, combine GitLab's DevOps platform with Google Cloud's infrastructure and services.
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AWS Adds Auto-Instrumentation of Python Applications to CloudWatch Application Signals
AWS announced the support of auto-instrumentation of Python applications to the Amazon Cloudwatch Application Signals feature. Application Signals enables the use of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to instrument Python applications without code changes. Application Signals allows for the monitoring of service-level objectives (SLOs) and works with several AWS observability and monitoring tooling.
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Terraform 1.8 Adds Provider-Defined Functions, Improves AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes Providers
HashiCorp has released version 1.8 of Terraform, their infrastructure-as-code language. The release introduces provider-defined functions. This enables the creation of custom functions within a given provider that handle computational-style tasks. Several providers have introduced new provider-defined functions. Version 1.8 also introduces improvements to refactoring across resource types.
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Axion Processor: Google Announces Its First Arm-Based CPU
During the recent Google Next '24 conference, Google unveiled Axion, its first custom Arm-based CPUs designed for data centers. Utilizing the Arm Neoverse V2 CPU architecture, the new processor will be available to customers later this year.
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Cloudflare R2 Storage Introduces Event Notifications and Infrequent Access Storage Tier
During the recent Developer Week, Cloudflare announced that the object storage R2 now supports event notifications, which automatically trigger Workers in response to data changes. Additionally, the migration service Super Slurper now extends its support to Google Cloud Storage and a new infrequent access storage tier is available in private beta.
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Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions
At the Google Cloud Next 2024 event, Google announced the launch of Vertex AI Agent Builder, the public preview of Google's most advanced generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and the addition of open-source language models to the Vertex AI platform.
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Google Cloud Run Volume Mounts in Preview: Easier Access to Files in Containers
Google recently announced a new feature called volume mounts in preview. This feature aims to streamline the integration of cloud-native applications with shared data storage solutions, such as Cloud Storage buckets and NFS shares, directly within Cloud Run instances.
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Google Cloud Launches Security Command Center Enterprise
Google Cloud has launched Security Command Center (SSC) Enterprise, a cloud risk management solution that offers proactive cloud security with enterprise security operations. The solution helps customers manage and mitigate risk across multi-cloud environments and is enhanced by Mandiant expertise.