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Google Cloud Ops Agent Can Now Monitor Nvidia GPUs
Google Cloud announced that Ops Agent, the agent for collecting telemetry from Compute Engine instances, can now collect and aggregate metrics from NVIDIA GPUs on VMs.
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Google Announces Ray Support for Vertex AI to Boost Machine Learning Workflows
Google has announced that it is expanding its open-source support for Vertex AI, its machine learning platform, by adding support for Ray, an open-source unified compute framework. This move is aimed at efficiently scaling AI workloads and enhancing the productivity and operational efficiency of data science teams.
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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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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 Announces General Availability of New Features for Cloud Firewall
Google announced the expansion of the offer for Google Cloud Firewall. Cloud Firewall is the GCP firewall service that is cloud native and distributed. The new features now in general availability are threat intelligence for Cloud Firewall, geo-location objects, address groups and local IP ranges.
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CockroachDB Updates: Available on Azure, Multi-Region Support, and Enhanced Migration Capabilities
Cockroach Labs recently announced several updates to its CockroachDB: CockroachDB dedicated is available in limited access on Azure, multi-region capabilities in CockroachDB serverless in preview, and new and improved capabilities in CockroachDB MOLT (Migration of Legacy Technology).
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StackFeed: Cloud Service Updates as a Service
In the fast-paced field of cloud services, staying current with service updates is often challenging. The recently announced StackFeed aims to address this issue, especially for software architects managing multi-cloud architectures. Architects select cloud services they're interested in, and StackFeed generates a customised service update feed consumable using an RSS reader, Slack or Teams.
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Simplify HTTP Request Buffering with Queue-Level Routing Configuration and BufferTask API
Google recently added two new features for Cloud Tasks with queue-level routing configuration and BufferTask API in public preview. The two new features combined enable creating of HTTP tasks and adding to a queue without needing the Tasks client library.
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Google Cloud Announces GA of Cloud Run Jobs
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Cloud Run jobs, a serverless option to execute scripts and jobs that do not respond to HTTP requests. A new execution environment provides increased CPU, network performance, and support for network file systems.
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Passwordless Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions
GitHub’s CICD service offering, GitHub Actions, now supports the use of Open Identity Connect credentials to authenticate against cloud providers such as Hashicorp Vault, AWS, Azure and GCP without the use of long-lived credentials or passwords.
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Google Offers New Licensing and Pricing Options for Their Cloud Platform
Google recently announced a new licensing option called Flex Agreements, allowing customers to migrate their workloads to the cloud with no up-front commitments. As part of this new licensing option, Google Cloud customers still get access to unique incentives (credits, discounts, services).
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Google Adds New Pricing Model to Its Security Command Center
Google recently announced several new updates to its Security Command Center (SCC) with a pay-as-you-go pricing model and two capabilities: deployments at the project level and self-service activation.
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Google Releases Kubernetes GitOps Observability Dashboard
Google Cloud introduced Config Management Dashboard that allows the Platform Administrator or Operator to have a real-time picture of configuration syncs and failures across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
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Google Address Validation API Is Generally Available to Improve Address Accuracy
Google recently announced the general availability of the Address Validation API. The new feature of the Google Maps Platform validates an address, standardizes it for mailing, and determines the best-known geocode location for it.
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Google Storage Transfer Service Now Supports Serverless Real-Time Replication Capability
Recently Google announced the preview support for event-driven transfer capability for its Storage Transfer Service (STS), which allows users to move data from AWS S3 to Cloud Storage and copy data between multiple Cloud Storage buckets.