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Google Cloud Adds Service for Managing Terraform Deployments
Google Cloud announced last week the addition of Terraform as a managed service. The service, known as Infrastructure Manager, manages the deployment of Terraform configurations into Google Cloud. Infrastructure Manager provides an interface for querying the state of the deployment and resources as defined within the configuration.
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Google Compute Engine Future Reservations in Public Preview
Google recently introduced a new future reservation feature in public preview for its Compute Engine, allowing users to request compute capacity for a future date.
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HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes Moves into General Availability
HashiCorp has moved the HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator for Kubernetes into general availability. This Kubernetes Operator combines Vault's secret management tooling with the Kubernetes Secrets cache. The operator also handles secret rotation and has controllers for the various secret-specific custom resources.
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State of Serverless 2023 Report Suggests Increasing Serverless Adoption
Datadog recently published the 'State of Serverless 2023' report, an annual analysis tracking the adoption of serverless technologies in cloud workloads. The major cloud providers are witnessing substantial growth in serverless usage, especially for container-based solutions.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Roundup: Stable Chat, Vertex AI, ChatGPT and Code Llama
The most recent update, which covers developments through September 4, 2023, highlights significant pronouncements and accomplishments in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. Developments from Stability AI, Google, OpenAI, and Meta were among this week's significant stories.
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Cross-Cloud Network: Google Introduces Platform to Connect Applications across Clouds
During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, the cloud provider announced Cross-Cloud Network, a solution to connect applications across different clouds. The new platform aims to simplify multi-cloud networking with a focus on speed and security.
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Duet AI Integration for Google Apigee API Management and Application Integration
At its Cloud Next event, Google announced the introduction of Duet AI into its cloud services Apigee API Management and Application integration to support developers in building APIs, integration flows, and extensions that connect Vertex AI or ChatGPT to real-world data through APIs. These capabilities will come in a private preview through Google Cloud’s Trusted Tester program in the coming weeks
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Direct VPC Egress for Cloud Run in Preview
Google Cloud announced the preview release of Direct VPC egress for Cloud Run. The capability enables traffic from Cloud Run containers to access Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks without Serverless VPC Access connectors, allowing for cheaper connection routes with larger bandwidth.
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Google Cloud Unveils AlloyDB AI: Transforming PostgreSQL with Advanced Vector Embeddings and AI
During the recent Google Cloud Next, Google announced AlloyDB AI in preview as an integral part of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, allowing developers to build generative (gen) Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications leveraging large language models (LLMs) with their real-time operational data through built-in, end-to-end support for vector embeddings.
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Google Expands Duet AI in Google Cloud for App Development, DevOps, and More
At Google Cloud Next, Google has expanded its always-on collaborator Duet AI with new features aimed at helping developers with application development, DevOps, database management and migration, data analysis and visualization, as well as cybersecurity.
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Budget for Project Users in Google Cloud Lowers the Barrier to Create and Manage Budgets
Google recently introduced budgets for project users, allowing users with a project owner or project editor role to create budgets for their projects without needing access to the higher-level billing account permissions to get notifications based on their cloud spend. This Cloud Billing feature is currently in preview.
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Google Launches Three New Cloud Storage Options: Cloud Storage FUSE, Parallelstore, NetApp Volumes
Google recently launched three new cloud storage options: Cloud Storage FUSE for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications that require file system semantics, a parallel file system Parallelstore for demanding AI and HPC applications that use GPUs, and NetApp Volumes for enterprise applications running in the cloud.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.
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Google Makes it Easier to Create Go Applications on Google Cloud
Google released four templates developers can use to bootstrap Go applications using gonew, an experimental tool aimed at instantiating Go projects.
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Enhancing Security with Google Cloud's Service Account Key Expiry Feature
Google Cloud has recently introduced service account key expiry to address security challenges associated with long-lived service account keys. With this capability, the company states that "customers can now configure an Organization Policy at the organization, folder, and project level to limit the usable duration of new service account keys”.