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Google Cloud Spanner Adds PostgreSQL Interface: Is PostgreSQL Now Standard for Cloud Databases?
At the recent Next '21 conference, Google announced a PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner, the distributed SQL database management and storage service on Google Cloud. The new interface in preview combines the scalability and reliability of Spanner with the familiarity among developers and portability of PostgreSQL.
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Google Announces Distributed Cloud
At the recent Next ’21 conference, Google announced Google Distributed Cloud, a set of hardware and software solutions to extend Google infrastructure to the edge and into customer data centers.
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Google Announces the Preview of Anthos for VMs
During the Google Cloud Next'21 virtual event, Google announced the preview of Anthos for Virtual Machines(VMs). Furthermore, the company introduced a new Anthos Multi-Cloud API, which will become generally available in Q4.
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Google's Dev Library is a Curated Collection of Projects about Google Tech
Google has launched a new initiative aimed at creating a curated collection of open source projects related to Google technologies. Google's Dev Library will not only contain code repositories, but also articles, tools, and tutorials collected from various Internet sources.
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Yugabyte Cloud: a Managed Distributed SQL Database
At the recent Distributed SQL Summit, Yugabyte announced the general availability of Yugabyte Cloud, a database-as-a-service version of the Postgres compatible YugabyteDB.
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Google Cloud Announces Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has recently announced the preview of Backup for GKE, a cloud-native way to protect, manage, and restore containerized applications and data running on Kubernetes.
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Cloud Providers Publish Ransomware Mitigation Strategies
In the last few weeks AWS, Azure and Google Cloud have posted articles and documentation with suggestions on ransomware mitigation techniques on the cloud, highlighting the main protections and recovery preparation actions.
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Google Introduces Minimum Instances to Reduce Cold Starts
Google’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering Cloud Functions now supports minimum (“min”) instances. With this new feature, Google aims to take away a well-known friction point of FaaS called "cold-starts".
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Google Cloud Private Service Connect Now Generally Available
Google Cloud has recently announced the general availability of Private Service Connect, a service to keep all customer’s traffic private and secure over Google's global network while abstracting the underlying network infrastructure.
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Google Releases Its Certificate Authority Service into General Availability
The Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is a scalable service for managing and deploying private certificates via automation and managing public key infrastructure (PKI). And last month, Google announced the general availability (GA) of this service.
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Google Introduces Unattended Project Recommender to Cut Cloud Costs
Recently Google introduced unattended project recommender, a new feature of Active Assist that provides customers with a one-stop shop for discovering, reclaiming, and shutting down unattended projects. In addition, the feature includes actionable and automatic recommendations to reduce costs or mitigate security risks presented by idle resources.
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Uber Re-Architected Its Foundational Fulfilment Service
Uber recently shared how it re-architected its fulfilment service, one of Uber's foundational platform services. Following a two-year-long effort involving 30+ teams and hundreds of developers, Uber engineers "built a strong foundation for modelling various types of physical fulfilment categories in the new platform and migrated all existing transportation use cases."
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Google Cloud Introduces Option to Choose Region with Lowest CO2 Footprint
Google has recently introduced the option to choose a Google Cloud region according to the lowest CO2 footprint. The new feature is currently available for Cloud Run and Datastream only, with Google planning to extend the offer to more Google Cloud services in the future.
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Google Cloud Improves SLA for Bigtable and Adds New Security Features
Google Cloud has recently raised the availability SLA for Bigtable instances up to 99.999%, matching the SLA for Firestore and Cloud Spanner. The data storage system introduced as well two new security features for enterprise workloads, customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and data access audit logs.
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Google Cloud Announces Managed Machine Learning Platform Vertex AI
At the recent Google I/O 2021 conference, the cloud provider announced the general availability of Vertex AI, a managed machine learning platform designed to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence models.