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Google Cloud Deploy Adds Deployment Verification, Support for Cloud Run
Google has added deployment verification capabilities to its Google Cloud Deploy tool. This new feature is in preview release and makes use of recent updates to Skaffold. Along with this announcement, Google has also added support for Cloud Run to Google Cloud Deploy.
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Google Cloud Introduces Startup CPU Boost for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions 2nd Gen
Google Cloud recently introduced startup CPU boost for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions 2nd gen, a new feature that allows developers to significantly reduce the cold start time of Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. The new capability is currently in preview.
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Google Distributed Cloud Virtual Now Supports Virtual Machines
Recently Google announced the general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos for bare metal, also known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDC), which will allow customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform in their data center or at the edge.
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Google Introduces Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Google recently introduced Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR), allowing customers to enable centralized backup management directly from the Google Cloud console. The new backup and recovery service is designed to work with cloud storage repositories, databases, and applications.
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The Announcement of Discontinuing Google Cloud IoT Core Service Stirs the Community and Customers
Google Cloud IoT Core is a fully-managed service that allows customers to connect, manage, and ingest data from millions of globally dispersed devices quickly and securely. Recently, Google announced discontinuing the service - according to the documentation, the company will retire the service on the 16th of August, 2023.
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Google Announces Three New Regions in Asia Pacific
Google has a global network of 34 regions and 103 availability zones, bringing its Cloud services to customers in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Recently, the company announced that it would expand its presence to three new cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand.
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New Features with the GA Release of Second-Generation Cloud Functions
Like other public cloud vendors, Google has a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering with Cloud Functions – and recently announced the second generation's general availability (GA).
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Google Cloud Launches New Sustainability Offerings for Climate Resiliency
At the recent Sustainability Summit, Google launched several new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies and researchers to improve climate resilience. These offerings are Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure.
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Google Expands Its Distributed Cloud Platform with Anthos On-Premises
Recently Google announced the expansion of its Distributed Cloud Platform by bringing in Anthos on-premise (for VMware vSphere and Anthos bare metal services). The offering is called Google Distributed Cloud Virtual — a software-and services-only solution.
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Google Brings Confidential Computing to Latest C2D and N2D Machine Types
A few months after upgrading its general-purpose (N2D) and compute-optimized (C2D) virtual machines to adopt the latest AMD EPYC technology, Google is now making confidential computing available in preview on those machine types.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU VMs
Last year Google introduced Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines in preview. Today, Cloud TPU VMs are generally available, including the new TPU Embedding API, which can accelerate ML Based ranking and recommendation workloads.
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Ten Lessons from Three Generations of Tensor Processing Units
A recent report published by Google’s TPU group highlights ten takeaways from developing three generations of tensor processing units. The authors also discuss how their previous experience will affect the development of future tensor processing units.
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Compute Engine VMs Cost Optimization with Suspend/Resume
Recently, Google announced the general availability of the Suspend/Resume feature for its Compute Engine VMs. The feature provides customers better control over Google Cloud resource consumption.
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Google Updates its Cloud MemoryStore with Read Replicas, RDB Snapshots, and Flushless Updates
Recently, Google announced a few updates for its Cloud MemoryStore, a fully-managed in-memory store compatible with open-source Redis. These updates are generally available (GA) Read Replicas, RDB (Redis database) snapshots in preview, and the launch of the flushless update for basic tier instances.
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Google Previews the Exactly-Once Delivery Feature for Its Pub/Sub Service
Recently, Google announced the preview of the exactly-once delivery feature for its Pub/Sub Service. Pub/Sub guarantees that subscriptions do not receive duplicate deliveries of messages when enabling the feature.