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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”.
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Detecting Malicious Behaviour in GKE Using OSS Memory Analysis Tools
The Spotify R&D team recently shared how they analyze the memory of a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster node when suspicious behaviour is detected. The primary goal is to understand if something malicious is occurring within their workloads. A new methodology they developed is based on dumping the kernels of the cluster nodes using open source tools: AVML, dwarf2json, and Volatility 3.
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Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Cloud’s Application Integration – a standalone Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) designed to help customers connect their applications visually, without code.
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Google Releases Hive-BigQuery Open-Source Connector
Google recently announced the general availability of the Hive-BigQuery Connector, simplifying integration and migrations between Apache Hive and Google BigQuery. The open-source connector is a Hive storage handler that enables Hive to interact with BigQuery's storage layer.
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Google Releases Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Google Cloud recently announced the Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition for MySQL and PostgreSQL of the managed database service. The new edition provides performance optimizations for read and write operations, improved machine types and configurations, and an integrated SSD–backed data cache option.
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Enhancing AI Capabilities: Google Cloud Integrates Vector Search in Managed Databases
Google Cloud recently added support for the pgvector on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. The extension brings vector search operations to the managed databases, allowing developers to store vector embeddings generated by large language models (LLMs) and perform similarity searches.