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Google Cloud Healthcare API Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud Healthcare API. This service facilitates the exchange of healthcare data between solutions built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and applications.
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Google Announces Anthos Support for Multi-Cloud is Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced that Athos support for multi-cloud is generally available. With Anthos, customers can now consolidate all their operations across on-premises, Google Cloud, and other clouds starting with AWS and Microsoft Azure as it is currently in preview.
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Google Introduces Service Directory to Manage All Your Services in One Place at Scale
In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new managed service on its Cloud Platform (GCP) called Service Directory. With this service, Google allows customers to publish, discover, and connect services consistently and reliably, regardless of the environment and platform where they reside.
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Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.
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Google Introduces Machine Images to Simplify Making and Restoring Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Google announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource containing all the information users need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, and thus reducing the amount of time required for managing environments. The feature in Compute Engine is currently in beta, and not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy.
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New Google Cloud Config Connector Treats Cloud Services Like Kubernetes Resources
The Google Cloud team have made the Google Cloud Config Connector generally available. Once installed into a Kubernetes cluster, it allows users to configures services, such as databases and virtual machines, as if they were native Kubernetes resources.
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Keeping Credentials Safe, Google Introduces Cloud Secret Manager
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new service, called Secret Manager, for managing credentials, API keys and certificates when using Google Cloud Platform. The service is currently in beta and the intent of this service is to reduce secret sprawl within an organization’s cloud deployment and ensure there is a single source of truth for managing credentials.
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Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the GCP Marketplace
In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the general availability of Confluent Cloud on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed Apache Kafka service, which removes the burden of its users to manage Kafka themselves.
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Google Introduces E2 Family of VMs in Beta for Google Compute Engine
In a recent blog post, Google announced its new E2 family of general-purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine are available in beta. With E2, Google aims to provide customers with flexible, performance-driven, and cost-effective VMs for Google Compute Engine on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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The Future of Data Engineering: Chris Riccomini at QCon San Francisco
At QCon San Francisco 2019, Chris Riccomini presented “The Future of Data Engineering”. The key takeaway of his talk is about reaching an end goal with data engineering, which is having a fully automated decentralized data warehouse.
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Secrets at Planet-Scale: Engineering the Internal Google KMS
At QCon San Francisco 2019, Anvita Pandit, senior developer at Google, explained Google’s Internal Key Management System (KMS), which supports various Google services. This internal KMS not only manages the generation, distribution and rotation of cryptographic keys, but also handles other secret data.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Enterprise in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced TensorFlow Enterprise, a cloud-based TensorFlow machine learning service that includes enterprise-grade support and managed services.
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Google Announces Updates to AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API
In a recent blog post, Google announced enhancements to a part of its Vision AI portfolio: AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and the Video Intelligence API. Each received updates to enhance their capabilities.
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Reducing the Friction in Multi-Cloud Deployments, Pulumi Launches 1.0 Platform
In a recent blog post, Pulumi has announced the release of Pulumi 1.0, an Infrastructure as Code platform that allows organizations to reduce the challenges associated with managing multiple cloud deployments. Their solution includes using consistent tooling based on popular programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and Go.
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Google Releases a Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta release of the Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD). With this service, Google acts as a managed service provider for any customer requiring Microsoft AD, and will the cloud provider will take care of the patching and maintenance of Microsoft's identity and access management service.