#425 Issue
Nov. 18, 2024
Tag: Infrastructure
GCP Experience Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 18, 2024How Verve achieves 37% performance gains with C4 machines and new GKE features - Verve, a creator of digital advertising solutions, achieved a 37% performance improvement by integrating C4 machines into their core infrastructure. C4 VMs, built on the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver exceptional performance for latency-sensitive workloads.
Infrastructure Monitoring Nov. 18, 2024From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Alerting Policy Documentation - Alerting policy documentation is essential for effective incident response and minimizing downtime. It should include the purpose of the alert, trigger conditions, severity, escalation path, actionable steps, related resources, owner, and review schedule. To create alerting policy documentation, you can use the Google Cloud Console, the Cloud Monitoring API, or the Google Cloud CLI.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Nov. 18, 2024Google Axion is a game-changer — let me show you why - Google Axion, built on Arm Neoverse V2 CPU architecture, delivers significant performance leaps for general-purpose workloads. Its Titanium subsystem offloads key platform operations, enhancing performance for customer workloads. Axion offers a compelling price-to-performance ratio, outperforming competitors while being among the most affordable options.
Cloud Run GCP Experience Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 11, 2024Etsy’s Service Platform on Cloud Run cuts deployment time from days to under an hour - Etsy, an online marketplace, migrated its infrastructure to Google Cloud and created a customized service platform called ESP running on Google Cloud Run. By leveraging Cloud Run, Etsy was able to focus on core platform functionality while Cloud Run handled the complexities of running containerized services. ESP also integrates with Etsy's existing tools and services, providing a consistent developer and operational experience.
AI Infrastructure Vertex AI Nov. 11, 2024Automating Infrastructure as Code with Vertex AI - The article showcases how they leveraged Google's Vertex AI with Gemini 1.5 to implement multimodal input for automating the creation of infrastructure as code.
Infrastructure Networking Nov. 4, 2024Need dynamic multi-region failover for Network Appliances in Google Cloud? - Network Connectivity Center (NCC) enables dynamic multi-region failover for Network Appliances (NVAs) in Google Cloud. It uses BGP routing to exchange routes between NVAs and Google Cloud Router, ensuring regional affinity and automatic cross-regional failover. This design provides high availability and resilience for NVA deployments outside the standard Cloud Load Balancing model.
AI Infrastructure Machine Learning Ray Oct. 28, 2024Running Training Jobs with Ray Jobs - Ray Jobs, an open-source framework, simplifies distributed computing for machine learning workloads. With Ray Jobs, you can define your training job, submit it to a Ray cluster, and monitor its progress using the Ray Dashboard. Ray Jobs automates cluster management, enabling scalable computation and cost efficiency by terminating clusters after job completion.
Cloud Workstations Infrastructure Oct. 28, 2024What is GCP Cloud Workstation? - Google Cloud Workstations is a fully managed service that provides cloud-based development environments, eliminating the need for local setup and configuration. It offers secure and consistent development environments for teams spread across different locations, ensuring standardized tools, libraries, and settings.
Cloud Run Infrastructure Private Service Connect Oct. 21, 2024Implementing Private Service Connect for Cloud Run Applications - Private Service Connect (PSC) allows you to securely expose Cloud Run services to other VPC networks without relying on public endpoints. This guide provides step-by-step instructions, including Terraform snippets, to configure PSC for Cloud Run applications.
Infrastructure VMware Engine Oct. 21, 2024Best Practices for deploying Google Cloud VMware Engine Protected Part 2 - The article discusses best practices for deploying Google Cloud VMware Engine Protected Part 2. It covers setting up the GCBDR management console, creating storage pools, and configuring backup templates. The author also introduces Backup Vaults, a new Google Cloud service that supports immutable and retention enforced backups for GCBDR and GCVE.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 21, 2024Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing - Google VP and Technical Fellow Parthasarathy Ranganathan and Principal Engineer Amber Huffman discuss the past and future of hyperscale computing, emphasizing the importance of cross-disciplinary co-design and collaboration. They highlight progress and opportunities in sustainability, trusted silicon, AI accelerators, and systems infrastructure, showcasing Google's contributions to the Open Compute Project (OCP). The article also explores the potential of robotics and automation in data centers to meet the next level of scale required by AI infrastructure.
Infrastructure Official Blog Startups Oct. 14, 2024How to protect your site from DDoS attacks with the power of Google Cloud networking and network security - Protect your site from DDoS attacks with Google Cloud's powerful networking and network security capabilities. The Project Shield offering, which leverages Google's Cloud networking and Global Front End infrastructure, provides robust defense against DDoS attacks.
Cloud Firewall Infrastructure Oct. 14, 2024GCP Firewalls Deep Dive - This article explores the various firewall solutions available on GCP, including Layer 3 (L3) and Layer 7 (L7) firewalls, and provides guidance on choosing the right solution based on specific security requirements.
Infrastructure Networking Oct. 7, 2024Build service centric apps with Google Cross-Cloud Network — demo - Google Cloud's service-centric Cross-Cloud Network simplifies network complexity in multicloud and hybrid environments. It offers benefits like IP address management, isolation of deployments, workload security, and simplified routing. Considerations include connectivity, security, and privacy. Learn more through documentation, NEXT '24 session, and Architecture Center Doc.
Infrastructure Networking Security Sept. 23, 2024Next-Gen Cloud Network Security: Design Notes - Next-Gen Cloud Network Security (NGFW Enterprise) brings inspection capabilities to the workload level, offering greater flexibility and scalability.
Infrastructure Networking Security Sept. 16, 2024Next-Gen Cloud Network Security: TLS inspection with NGFW Enterprise - NGFW Enterprise enables TLS inspection by acting as a "man-in-the-middle," splitting client-server connections and inspecting TLS traffic. TLS inspection policies link NGFW Enterprise to Certificate Authority Service (CAS) and Certificate Manager Trust-Configs for certificate management. To inspect TLS traffic, create TLS inspection policies and enable TLS inspection for specific traffic patterns within Firewall Policies. Trusting CAS certificates requires manual distribution to VMs, as they are not automatically trusted within GCP.
Infrastructure Kubernetes Sept. 16, 2024GKE Enterprise: A platform engineered for success with Kubernetes - GKE Enterprise is a multi-cluster management platform that simplifies the management of multiple Kubernetes clusters. It provides visibility into the cluster landscape, reduces operational overhead, enforces desired state for compliance and governance, and offers cost optimization recommendations. Key features include cluster onboarding, fleet management, policy enforcement, configuration synchronization, and cost visibility.
Infrastructure VPC Sept. 16, 2024Networking in Google Cloud — Network Connectivity Center - Exploring Google Cloud’s Network Connectivity Center to integrate multiple VPC based on their use case.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Sept. 2, 2024Google Compute metadata — Efficient Usage in Shell Script - If you are familiar with Google Compute metadata and you are wondering how to integrate it with startup script, this article is for you!
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 26, 2024Google Cloud expands services in Saudi Arabia, delivering enhanced data sovereignty and AI capabilities - The new offerings include Sovereign Controls by CNTXT, a partnership with a local trusted partner, providing additional controls to meet stringent data sovereignty requirements.
Infrastructure Aug. 26, 2024Beyond Shared Infrastructure: Exploring the World of Sole-Tenant Nodes in GCP - Sole-Tenant Nodes: Google Cloud’s Dedicated Compute Option.
Infrastructure VMware Engine Aug. 19, 2024For VMware Admins: Why Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Should Be on Your Radar - Reduce Risk by Migrating Your VMware Workloads to Google Cloud with Ease.
Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure Networking Aug. 19, 2024GKE and the Dreaded IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED Error: Understanding the Culprit - The hidden trap in your GKE cluster: Unraveling the IP exhaustion mystery.
Cloud Workstations Infrastructure Secure Web Proxy Terraform Aug. 12, 2024Controlling Network Egress for Cloud Workstations with Secure Web Proxy - Learn how to control egress traffic for Cloud Workstations with a cloud-first Secure Web Proxy for a more delightful developer on-boarding.
Cloud Load Balancing Infrastructure Networking Streaming Aug. 5, 2024Load Balancing Blitz — data pipeline - This blog post explores a near real-time data pipeline to gather metrics for a demo game called Load Balancing Blitz. Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and Looker were used to ingest, process, and visualize data in real-time.
Cloud Storage Infrastructure Storage July 29, 2024Hosting a Hugo-Generated Blog on Google Cloud Storage - Hosting a blog on Google Cloud using a Cloud Storage using Hugo is fast, simple, and portable.
Cloud Bigtable Data Analytics Databases Infrastructure Official Blog July 22, 2024One database to rule them all with Bigtable hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) - Bigtable recently added distributed counters, request priorities, write flow control, and Data Boost features to make it easier to perform both OLAP and OLTP with a single database. These features can help you spread your batch jobs out over time with greater reliability and reduced operational management, use fewer resources, and avoid impacting your serving workload.
Infrastructure Networking VPC Service Controls July 15, 2024Simplifying VPC Service Control - VPC Service Control (VPC-SC) helps protect data in Google Cloud by creating perimeters that control access to resources. It provides an extra layer of security beyond IAM, allowing organizations to define fine-grained access controls based on network origin, identity, and other attributes.
Anthos Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure Istio July 8, 2024Troubleshooting Network Latency in GKE Clusters with ASM: A Packet Capture Deep Dive - This article delves into troubleshooting network latency issues in Google Kubernetes Engine clusters with Anthos Service Mesh. It emphasizes the importance of capturing packets on the istio-ingress gateway to gain insights into potential bottlenecks or misconfigurations.
Infrastructure Security July 8, 2024Streamline CI/CD: Secure GCP Deployments with GitHub Runner Sets on GKE & Workload Identity Federation - This blog post provides a step-by-step guide to establish a secure CI/CD pipeline using Google Kubernetes Engine self-hosted runners, GitHub Actions workflows, and Google Cloud Platform Workload Identity Federation.
Cloud Armor Cloud Identity Aware Proxy Infrastructure July 8, 2024Set up Load Balancer with Cloud Armor and Identity-Aware Proxy Step-by-Step Guide - This guide provides a step-by-step process for setting up a Load Balancer with Cloud Armor's security capabilities and Identity Aware Proxy for access control.
Infrastructure Migration July 1, 2024Simplifying Google Cloud Migration Center Setup - Google Cloud Migration Center simplifies the migration process by providing detailed analysis of resource utilization, right-sizing information, and total cost of ownership. This blog serves as a comprehensive guide to deploy Migration Center in your environment, including setting up IAM roles, enabling the API, creating a service account, installing the Discovery Client, and configuring data collection.
Infrastructure Migration July 1, 2024GCP Organization Migration: Understanding and Methodology for a Successful Migration - Need to migrate all GCP projects with associated workloads from an GCP organization to another GCP organization?
Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure June 24, 2024Wildcard certificates with Ingress Gateway - Using the same TLS certificate for multiple gateways in Istio Ingress Gateway can cause 404 errors in browsers that utilize HTTP/2 connection reuse. To resolve this issue, configure a single wildcard Gateway instead of multiple gateways and bind both VirtualServices to this Gateway. This ensures that requests to different hosts with the same wildcard certificate are handled correctly and 404 errors are avoided.
Databases Infrastructure Official Blog Partners June 17, 2024Accelerating cloud transformation with Google Cloud and Oracle - Google Cloud and Oracle have announced a new strategic cloud partnership that enables customers to seamlessly migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This partnership includes the Oracle Database@Google Cloud, where Oracle will directly host, operate, and manage Oracle database services natively within and from Google Cloud data centers. Customers can also interconnect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud without any cross-cloud data transfer charges and run Oracle Applications on Google Cloud such as Oracle E-Business Suite.
AWS Infrastructure Migration Networking June 17, 2024Enabling enterprise-grade migration across cloud providers — Achieving Network Transitivity on an enterprise scale in GCP - This blog post discusses how to achieve network transitivity on an enterprise scale in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) when migrating from another cloud service provider. It provides a detailed explanation of the network architecture and configurations required to establish seamless communication and data transfer between AWS and GCP.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sustainability May 27, 2024Our clean energy progress in Japan - Google has announced two new solar power purchase agreements in Japan, bringing the company closer to its goal of running on 24/7 carbon-free energy on every grid where it operates by 2030. These agreements will add a combined 60 megawatts of new solar energy capacity to the Japanese grid, supporting Google's data centers in the region and aligning with Japan's clean energy ambitions. The projects are expected to be fully operational within four years and underscore Google's commitment to invest nearly $690 million into sustainable infrastructure in Japan.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 27, 2024Improving connectivity and accelerating economic growth across Africa with new investments - The Umoja subsea cable will directly connect Africa with Australia, improving connectivity and resilience.
Infrastructure Paywall Security Terraform May 27, 2024Implementing Privileged Access Managed in GCP with Terraform - Short guide on PAM implementation using Terraform.
Infrastructure Official Blog SRE VMware Engine May 27, 2024Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers - Google Cloud experienced an incident that impacted one customer's use of Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) in a single cloud region. The incident was caused by an inadvertent misconfiguration during deployment using an internal tool, leading to the automatic deletion of the customer's GCVE Private Cloud after a system-assigned 1-year period. Google Cloud has since taken steps to prevent such incidents from happening again, including deprecating the internal tool and reviewing all GCVE deployments. The customer's data backups stored in Google Cloud Storage were not affected and assisted in the rapid restoration of services.
DevOps Infrastructure Media CDN May 20, 2024Optimising Media Delivery with Google’s Media CDN
AWS Billing Cloud Storage Infrastructure May 13, 2024Billed for unauthorized requests? Google Cloud Storage vs. AWS S3 - Can unauthorized access to Google Cloud Storage lead to unexpected bills?
DevOps Infrastructure Monitoring SRE Stackdriver April 29, 2024Stay Ahead of the Storm: Comprehensive Insights into Google Cloud Personalized Service Health - Personalized Service Health from Google Cloud monitors your cloud projects and proactively notifies you of potential issues. It provides customizable alerts and leverages past incidents to improve reliability, making it a valuable tool for managing your cloud environment.
Infrastructure Windows April 22, 2024Google APIs from Windows DNS Server - Accessing Google APIs from Windows DNS Server.
Infrastructure Networking April 22, 2024Multi-region HA in Google Cloud - In this article we will try to explore the levels of possible application availability in Google Cloud with a focus on private internal networks.
Infrastructure April 22, 2024Landing Zone Technical Onboarding— the “How-To” (Google Cloud Adoption Series) - How to build your LZ project team, get the support you need, run your workshops, and document your design.
Infrastructure Official Blog April 15, 2024Investing $1 billion in digital connectivity to Japan
Infrastructure April 1, 2024Let’s talk about Disaster Recovery to the Cloud - An overview of Disaster Recovery best practices.
Infrastructure Terraform VPC April 1, 2024Using Terraform to Build a Shared VPC Network in GCP - I wrote an article a little while back that walked through the process of setting up a Cloud Composer environment in a Shared VPC network.
Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure Kubernetes Feb. 26, 2024A guide to setting up GKE multi-cluster Gateway - This blog post covers setting up a multi-cluster GKE Gateway controller.
Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure Kubernetes LLM Feb. 19, 2024Serving Open Source LLMs on GKE using vLLM framework - This post shows how to serve Open source LLM models(Mistrial 7B, Llama2 etc) on Nvidia GPUs(L4, Tesla-T4, for example) running on Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Infrastructure Machine Learning Terraform Vertex AI Feb. 11, 2024Cheap VertexAI data syncing using GCS - Learn how to sync and persist VertexAI notebooks user’s data using GCS.
Infrastructure Media CDN Feb. 5, 2024Operationalizing Google Cloud Media CDN - The purpose of this particular blog is to enable users of Media CDN to understand how to gain more visibility into Media CDN performance , monitor the various aspects of service , and (if needed) do a better and faster troubleshooting of Media CDN.
Cloud VPN Infrastructure Feb. 5, 2024Google Cloud HA VPN to Compute Engine VM (NVA) config lab with VyOS - Google Cloud announced the GA of the Cloud HA VPN support of compute Instances with public IPs.
Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 5, 2024Heita South Africa! The new Google Cloud region is now open in Johannesburg
Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 5, 2024IDC: Migrating to Google Cloud IaaS has a 318 percent ROI - IDC research study to provides better understanding of the tangible ROI of migrating to cloud infrastructure.
Compute Engine FinOps Infrastructure Jan. 29, 2024How to reduce your Google Cloud Compute Engine Bill by 50% with Committed Use Discounts — Part 2 - This article explains how to size, purchase, and analyze the effectiveness of Committed Use Discounts.
Infrastructure Official Blog Jan. 22, 2024Introducing Bulikula and Halaihai, subsea cables to connect the central Pacific - Bulikula will connect Guam with Fiji, Halaihai, will link Guam and French Polynesia.
Infrastructure Official Blog Jan. 15, 2024Announcing Humboldt, the first cable route between South America and Asia-Pacific
Billing FinOps Infrastructure Jan. 15, 2024How to reduce your Google Cloud Compute Engine Bill by 50% with Committed Use Discounts — Part 1 - Only about 20% of the Google Cloud users I speak with have a Committed Use Discount Strategy.
Infrastructure Terraform Jan. 15, 2024Tag Terraform Module Launched! - This blog gives a high level overview of why to use Terraform Modules and information about my newly launched terraform-tag-module module.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sustainability Dec. 18, 2023How Google Cloud is helping companies decarbonize their cloud footprints
Infrastructure Monitoring Dec. 18, 2023Is Google Cloud down? - Exploration of the new Personalized Service Health Dashboard and API.
BigQuery Infrastructure Looker Media CDN Dec. 3, 2023Media CDN Custom Dashboard using BigQuery and Looker Studio - This document will guide you through the steps to deploy a Media CDN custom Dashboard in the Google Cloud Console using Log Sink, BigQuery and Looker Studio.
Infrastructure Dec. 3, 2023Securing Google Cloud Resources at Scale using Tags - Manage access to Google Cloud resources at scale using the power of Tags.
Infrastructure Migration Dec. 3, 2023Mapping Your As-Is to Google Cloud, To Leverage Cloud Value - Google Cloud Adoption Series: Part 4B: As-Is to Cloud — Infrastructure.
Generative AI Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 20, 2023Accelerating generative AI around the world with new data residency guarantees - Data residency guarantees continue GCP commitment to provide AI services with enterprise-grade scale, safety, security and privacy.
Cloud External Key Manager Cloud KMS Infrastructure Nov. 20, 2023Evaluating EKM Performance Impact: Part 1 — Performance Test on GCP with Thales DPOD Service - This study directly compares the performance impact of using conventional KMS keys against external encryption keys in database operations.
Infrastructure Terraform Nov. 20, 2023Architecture Diagramming Tool - Architecture Diagramming Tool now generates Terraform for your sketches.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 30, 2023Connecting the South Pacific with new subsea cables - Announcements of plans for the South Pacific Connect initiative, which will deliver two new transpacific subsea cables — Honomoana and Tabua — to help increase the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity in the Pacific.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 30, 2023Building core strength: New technical papers on infrastructure security - Building on the principles laid out in Building Secure and Reliable Systems, we are excited to announce a new series of technical whitepapers on infrastructure security.
Ansible Cloud Identity Aware Proxy Infrastructure Oct. 23, 2023Ansible External Secure Access & Dynamic Inventory on Google Cloud Platform - An example on how to use Google Cloud IAP with Ansible for conf management.
Infrastructure Migration Oct. 16, 2023Google Cloud Migrations-Generate quick TCO reports for fast cloud adoption. - This article walks you through using Migration Center, a native Google Cloud Platform tool that can help you run an assessment and produce a Total Cost of Ownership report.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sustainability Oct. 9, 2023Supporting power grids with demand response at Google data centers - Google is expanding our use of demand response technology to temporarily reduce power consumption at our data centers to help local grids as needed.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 2, 2023Meet Nuvem, a cable to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the U.S. - Today, we’re announcing Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable system to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the United States.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 25, 2023Expanding our infrastructure around the world - We issued an update on the status of Google Cloud regions in Sweden, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Norway, Mexico, and Greece.
Cloud Bigtable Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 18, 2023Expanding your Bigtable architecture with change streams - Learn how to use change streams for Bigtable and how to incorporate change data capture into your system design.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Sept. 18, 2023Boosting Subsea Cables with Multi-Core Fiber Technology - Google and NEC are collaborating to adopt multi-core fiber (MCF) technology for the first time in the submarine cable industry.
Billing FinOps Infrastructure Sept. 18, 2023Optimizing Costs of Google Kubernetes Engine - How we decreased 75% of our production GKE cluster costs.
Cloud Asset Inventory Infrastructure Sept. 11, 2023Configure CAI Feed for Real Time Notifications about GCP Resource Changes - Configuring Cloud Asset Inventory Feed to get notifications about changes to Google Cloud resources.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Sept. 4, 2023Introducing Cross-Cloud Network: a new way to network - New innovations from Google Cloud Networking for Cloud Next ‘23.
Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure Networking Aug. 14, 2023Navigating Scalability and Efficiency with GCP Multi-Cluster Ingress - This article explores the benefits and practical information of Multi-Cluster Ingress.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 7, 2023Introducing Personalized Service Health: Upleveling incident response communications - Personalized Service Health sends custom granular alerts about Google Cloud service disruptions, and integrates with incident management tooling.
DevOps Infrastructure Aug. 7, 2023Cloud Custodian for Compliance As Code and Auto-Remediation on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Using Cloud Custodian to implement your own Compliance as Code and Auto-Remediation strategy on Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Networking Virtual Private Cloud July 31, 2023Internet Access for Private/Sensitive Workloads with Squid Proxy and Private Service Connect on GCP - Handling private workloads within the hub-spoke network topology.
Infrastructure Networking VPC July 24, 2023Beauty of routing in GCP — how to achieve VPC transitivity - Tips to solve VPC transitivity issues.
Infrastructure Security July 10, 2023Google Cloud Platform Security Checklist : Part 6/7 — Data Security - Best practices for securing Google Cloud Platform in the context of data products.
Infrastructure Networking June 26, 2023GCP Network Design (Part-1) Things to Consider Before Starting GCP Network Design
Cloud Asset Inventory Infrastructure June 26, 2023Evaluating your existing GCP resources - How to build a service to validate existing GCP resources from a CAI export.
Infrastructure Terraform June 26, 2023Policy Validation — Preventive Control with Terraform Vet - Preventive controls are realized through policy. Policy is defined as a series of programmatic constraints that protect GCP resources.
Infrastructure Terraform June 26, 2023IaC CI/CD integration for Terraform Vet - This article describes how to integrate gcloud beta terraform vet with your CI/CD pipeline.
Infrastructure Terraform June 12, 2023Your First Step in Google Cloud Platform : Building a Landing Zone with Terraform - In this article are unpacked key elements of constructing an efficient Landing Zone within Google Cloud Platform.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog June 5, 2023Announcing Cross-Cloud Interconnect: seamless connectivity to all your clouds - Google Cloud is announcing Cross-Cloud Interconnect, which lets you connect any cloud to Google Cloud via our secure, high-bandwidth global network.
Infrastructure Networking Security VPC June 5, 2023Example of Hybrid Hub-Spoke Network Topology on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - This article delves into Hub-Spoke Network Topology and Hybrid Connectivity, with a focus on their implementation in the GCP context.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 29, 2023Now open, new Doha cloud region set to support Qatar’s National Vision 2030 - The new Google Cloud region in Doha, Qatar is now open and expected to contribute a cumulative 18.9 billion USD in economic output to the economy of Qatar.
GCP Certification Infrastructure Networking Security May 29, 2023Managing Egress Traffic on Google Cloud Platform with Cloud Secure Web Proxy - This article discusses the usage of Secure Web Proxy to control, secure, and monitor the web egress traffic of an organization’s network.
Cloud DNS Infrastructure Networking May 29, 2023Expanding Private DNS Resolution in a Hybrid Environment with Google Cloud Platform - More and more organizations are gravitating towards hybrid environments primarily due to security concerns, or simply because transferring….
Infrastructure May 22, 2023Building a L7 Web Proxy on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Squid Proxy and ClamAV - This article provides step-by-step instructions on constructing a layer 7 (application) web proxy on Google Cloud from scratch by leveraging Squid and ClamAV open-source tools and Compute Engine services.
Infrastructure May 22, 2023Unleashing Developer Potential with Google Cloud Workstation. - Setting up a custom development environment on google cloud workstation with Terraform.
Infrastructure Official Blog Security May 1, 2023Google named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ IaaS Platform Native Security - Forrester Research has once again named Google Cloud a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: IaaS Platform Native Security, Q2 2023 report. Here’s why.
Compute Engine Infrastructure April 24, 2023Intel Sapphire Rapids on Google Compute Engine C3 — MPI & Storage Performance Evaluation - Over a month ago I wrote about Intel Sapphire Rapids leveraged by the GCE C3 instances at Google Cloud in the context of SPEC CPU® 2017.
Config Connector Infrastructure Kubernetes April 10, 2023Are Terraform’s days numbered? - An exploration of Kubernetes Resource Manager and the Google Config Connector.
Infrastructure Official Blog April 3, 2023Hayyakom, Doha! New Google Cloud region now open in Qatar - The new Doha region provides low-latency, highly available cloud services to help Qatari customers accelerate digital transformation.
Infrastructure April 3, 2023The Cloud is speaking CO2? - The best in class of CO2 emission is really the one you think ? And What about the money ?
Infrastructure Network Connectivity Center Networking April 3, 2023Troubleshooting Reachability with Network Intelligence Center Connectivity Test - Troubleshooting potential network issues with Connectivity Tests.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 27, 2023The new Google Cloud region in Turin Italy is now open - The new Turin region provides low-latency, highly available services with international security and data protection standards.
Infrastructure Terraform March 13, 2023How to keep your terraform code clean and robust (Part2) - This blog post shows how you can test your infrastructure with Terraform and Terratest on the Google Cloud Platform.
Infrastructure Networking March 13, 2023Google Cloud Networking fundamentals - Explanation of Google Cloud Networking concepts.
Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure Kubernetes Networking March 13, 2023GCP DNS Endpoints With GKE - Domain name with GCP DNS for testing in GKE.
Blockchain Node Engine Infrastructure Official Blog March 6, 2023Node hosting on Google Cloud: a pillar of Web3 infrastructure - Organizations can avoid the challenges of deploying and managing Web3 infrastructure with Google Cloud’s fully managed Blockchain Node Engine.
Billing Infrastructure March 6, 2023Learning more about FinOps on Google Cloud - A collection of useful resources to learn more about FinOps on Google Cloud and how to get started.
Infrastructure Networking Security Feb. 20, 2023GCP and Palo-Alto together : Solving for client to site VPN - The purpose of this blog is to showcase how a customer can use the same 3rd party firewall for client-to-site VPN functionality as well.
Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 13, 2023How to migrate Cloud Storage data from multi-region to regional - Considerations and process for migrating your Google Cloud Storage data from multi-region to regional buckets.
Infrastructure NoSQL Official Blog Feb. 6, 2023Scaling Microservices Applications: From Open Source to Redis Enterprise on Google Cloud - Scale your microservices application from open source to Redis Enterprise on Google Cloud to achieve scalability and high availability.
BigQuery Infrastructure Official Blog Terraform Feb. 6, 2023BigQuery authorized views permissions via Terraform, avoiding the chicken & egg problem - How IAM is implemented on BigQuery datasets via Terraform and how to correctly assign and preserve authorized view permissions without running into the chicken and egg problem.
Infrastructure Networking Feb. 6, 2023Latency ‘map’ for GCP performance dashboard - A visualization of network performance on a world map.
Infrastructure Networking Terraform VPC Feb. 6, 2023GCP- VPC Peering with Terraform! - Example of implementing VPC peering with Terraform.
Infrastructure Official Blog Jan. 30, 2023A new Google Cloud region is coming to Kuwait - A new Google Cloud region is coming to Kuwait to support our growing customer base.
Infrastructure Networking VPC Jan. 30, 2023Google Cloud-Shared VPC Network - An overview, setup and using shared VPC.
Infrastructure Networking Security Jan. 30, 2023New GCP firewall (3.0) and secure tags tutorial - An example of implementing infrastructure and using firewall secure tags.
Event Infrastructure Migration Official Blog Jan. 23, 2023Get migrating in 2023: join our upcoming fireside chat featuring Forrester - The State of Public Cloud 2022, a study by Forrester Research and commissioned by Google Cloud, to help organizations understand how to get their cloud migration projects right in 2023 and beyond.
Infrastructure Official Blog Jan. 16, 2023Everything you need to know about architecting reliable infrastructure for Google Cloud workloads - Understand the building blocks of reliability in Google Cloud. Learn to architect reliable infrastructure to deploy highly available cloud workloads.
Cloud Pub/Sub Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Jan. 16, 2023Seamlessly export Pub/Sub Lite messages to Pub/Sub - Pub/Sub Lite now offers export subscriptions to Pub/Sub. This new subscription type writes Lite messages directly to Pub/Sub - no code development or Dataflow jobs needed. Great for connecting disparate data pipelines and migration from Lite to Pub/Sub.
Infrastructure Official Blog Terraform Jan. 16, 2023Hierarchical Firewall Policy Automation with Terraform - Here's how automation on Terraform allows Security admin to easily observe, menage, and enforce traffic control patterns centrally, and very easily.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Jan. 16, 20233 things to remember before renaming GCP VM. - 3 things to remember when renaming Compute Engine VM using the new Rename functionality.
Infrastructure Networking VPC Jan. 9, 2023GCP Hybrid Networking Patterns — Part 3 - Three-part series about GCP Hybrid Networking Patterns.
Infrastructure Networking VPC Jan. 2, 2023Master GCP Networking and VPC: The Ultimate Guide for Cloud Engineers - Basic overview of Setting Virtual Private cloud on Google Cloud.
Cloud Identity Infrastructure Networking Dec. 26, 2022Setup SSO for OpenVPN Access Server with Google Cloud Identity using SAML - With OpenVPN Access Server 2.11 or above, you can set up SSO using SAML, this blog post describes setting up SSO with Google Cloud Identity.
AlloyDB Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 19, 2022Announcing the General Availability of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL - Migrate and modernize legacy databases with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding enterprise database workloads.
Cloud SQL Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 12, 2022The business value of Cloud SQL: how companies speed up deployments, lower costs and boost agility - Migrating your databases to Cloud SQL can lower costs, boost agility, and speed up deployments, with a 3-year ROI of 246%. Get details in this IDC report.
Cloud Healthcare Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 5, 2022Google Cloud Biotech Acceleration Tooling - Quick start technology tooling and guides to accelerate scientific discovery in within biotechnology.
Cloud SQL Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 5, 2022Migrating your Oracle and SQL Server databases to Google Cloud - Learn how to migrate your Oracle and SQL Server databases to Google Cloud with these five new videos by Google product experts.
Billing Infrastructure Dec. 5, 2022Introduction to FinOps on Google Cloud - Cloud FinOps is becoming increasingly important: why does it require a new way of thinking and how can you start?
Compute Engine Infrastructure Networking VPC Nov. 27, 2022Using a multi-nic VM as a gateway between VPCs in Google Cloud - Create a Gateway between two or more VPC networks without using peering or VPN connection.
Cloud Storage Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 21, 2022Simplify and automate cost optimization with Autoclass for Cloud Storage - Autoclass simplifies data lifecycle management and reduces TCO for Cloud Storage by auto-transitioning data to the best storage class for your workloads.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Nov. 21, 2022Does the internet need sunscreen? No, submarine cables are protected from solar storms - With more solar storms on the horizon, Google scientists evaluated whether subsea cables are susceptible to large-scale geomagnetic disturbances.
Cloud Storage Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 21, 2022Cloud Storage gets better system observability with customizable monitoring dashboards - In-context dashboards for Google cloud storage, customizable, create alert, view logs for better storage system insights at project level and bucket level.
Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Nov. 14, 2022Landing Zones on Google Cloud - An overview of using Landing Zones in your organization.
Billing Cloud Operations Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 7, 2022Flexible committed use discounts — a simple new way to discount Compute Engine instances - You can use new flexible committed use discounts (CUDs) across multiple VM families and regions and get 28% off one year and 46% off 3 years.
Infrastructure Oct. 31, 2022Growing your Google Cloud Landing zone with data - How can data can enrich a landing zone and set you up for a modern, scalable, future proof and user centric solution?
Infrastructure SAP Oct. 31, 2022SAP on Google Cloud series: The fundamentals - SAP on Google Cloud series exploring fundamentals, architecture, security and best practices.
Business Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Oct. 31, 2022Google is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services - For the fifth consecutive year, Google Cloud is a leader in Gartner Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services Magic Quadrant.
Billing Infrastructure Machine Learning Networking Official Blog Oct. 24, 2022How ML-fueled recommendations help developers optimize security, price-performance, and carbon reduction - Learn about what’s new in Google Cloud’s ML-powered intelligence service Active Assist from several Next ’22 breakout sessions.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 24, 2022The new Google Cloud Region in Israel is now open - The Google Cloud region in Israel gives users low-latency access to services while meeting compliance, privacy, and digital sovereignty needs.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 24, 2022Announcing open innovations for a new era of systems design - At the OCP Global Summit, we announced contributions for server design, trusted computing, reliable computing, and sustainability.
Billing Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 24, 2022Rethinking your VM strategy with Spot VMs - Learn more about the availability, key features and usage of the new Spot VMs on Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 17, 2022New cloud regions coming to a country near you - Google Cloud regions are coming to Austria, Greece, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden.
Cloud SDK Cloud Storage Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 10, 2022Introducing gcloud storage: up to 94% faster data transfers for Cloud Storage - gcloud CLI enables super-fast data transfers into Cloud Storage and delivers a consistent CLI experience across all Google Cloud services.
GCP Experience Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 10, 2022100,000 new SUVs booked in 30 minutes: How Mahindra built its online order system - Mahindra Group’s Automotive Division optimized their website in anticipation of the release of the new vehicle model.
Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 10, 2022Secure streaming data with Private Service Connect for Confluent Cloud - Confluent Cloud supports Google Cloud Private Service Connect making it easier for organizations to get secure private network connectivity.
Billing Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 10, 2022New Google Cloud Spot VM price reductions: Up to 11% off already discounted - New, lower prices available on Google Cloud Spot VMs.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 3, 2022How to get the most from your Intel-based instances on Google Cloud - Learn how Google Cloud is partnering with Intel to help our mutual customers optimize their most demanding workloads on Intel-based instances through the Intel Software Center of Excellence.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Sept. 26, 2022Schedule Connectivity Tests for continuous networking reachability diagnostics - Automating Connectivity Tests for continuous cloud networking diagnostics.
Cloud Spanner Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 5, 2022Spanner on a modern columnar storage engine - Google’s planet-scale database, Spanner, was migrated to a modern columnar storage engine with many critical services running on top uninterrupted.
Cloud Storage Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 29, 2022New prefix and suffix lifecycle rules for Cloud Storage - Google Cloud Storage now offers lifecycle rules based on prefix or suffix, and for multipart uploads.
Billing Infrastructure Aug. 22, 2022Using Google Services ? Switch to GCP for cost savings and better performance !! - Reducing (networking) costs with changes in architecture.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 15, 2022New Google Cloud regions are coming to Asia Pacific - The new Google Cloud regions coming to Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand will join our 11 existing regions in Asia Pacific.
Infrastructure Kubernetes Aug. 8, 2022Creating a GKE cluster using Crossplane - Using Crossplane (cloud native control plane framework) to create GKE cluster.
Infrastructure Networking July 25, 2022Using a host project to simplify your Google Cloud network - An example of using host project to provide centralized network resources, firewall rules, configurations etc.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 25, 2022A new Google Cloud region is coming to Mexico - The new Google Cloud region in Mexico will be the third in Latin America, joining Chile and Brazil, and bringing the total of regions and zones to 34 and 103.
DevOps Docker GitHub Infrastructure July 18, 2022Shipping multi-platform Docker images for ARM on Google Cloud with GitHub Actions - Build multi-architecture Docker images using GitHub Actions to take advantage of the new ARM instance types announced by Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 18, 2022Google Cloud’s innovation-first infrastructure - We’re investing in innovative cloud infrastructure that is optimized, transformative and easy to use.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 4, 2022Bonjour Paris: New Google Cloud region in France is now open - The Google Cloud region in Paris, France gives users low-latency access to services while meeting compliance, privacy, and digital sovereignty needs.
Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Official Blog June 27, 2022Five years of 100% renewable energy – and a look ahead to a 24/7 carbon-free future - For five years now, Google has matched all its energy consumption with renewable energy, and is planning to use 100% carbon-free energy by 2030.
Cloud Resource Manager Infrastructure June 27, 2022Introducing Resource Tags in GCP - An overview of using Resource Manager tags.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Networking Official Blog June 20, 2022Package management for Debian/Ubuntu operating systems on Google Cloud - How packages.cloud.google.com subdomain works and can be used to download debian/ubuntu packages without going to the internet.
Infrastructure Official Blog June 20, 2022Ciao, Milano! New cloud region in Milan now open - The new Milan region provides low-latency, highly available services with international security and data protection standards.
Cloud DNS Infrastructure Networking Official Blog June 20, 2022Introducing managed zone permissions for Cloud DNS - Delegate and distribute Cloud DNS zone management responsibilities to your application teams.
Infrastructure Official Blog June 13, 2022The new Google Cloud region in Dallas, Texas is now open - Google Cloud’s Dallas, Texas region is now open, bringing the first region to Texas, for a total of 34 regions across the globe.
Billing Compute Engine Infrastructure June 13, 2022Commitment/Reservation expiry alerts on GCP - Implementation with a multi-cloud environment is gaining momentum with reduced complexities and seamlessly managed services as prime….
Infrastructure Network Intelligence Center Networking Official Blog May 30, 2022Introducing Network Analyzer: One stop shop to detect service and network issues - Introducing Network Analyzer, the newest module for Google Cloud’s Network Intelligence Center.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog Security May 30, 2022Introducing high-performance Confidential Computing with N2D and C2D VMs - We’re excited to announce that Confidential Computing is now available on the latest general-purpose N2D and compute-optimized C2D Virtual Machines.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 30, 2022Cloud on Spain’s terms: New Google Cloud region in Madrid now open - The new Madrid region (europe-southwest1) provides low-latency, highly available services with international security and data protection standards.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog May 30, 2022Assembling and managing distributed applications using Google Cloud Networking solutions - At the 2022 Networking Spotlight, Google Cloud and customers Twitter, Snapchat and MongoDB discuss new app connectivity and delivery architectures.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 30, 2022The new Google Cloud region in Columbus, Ohio is open - Google Cloud’s Columbus, Ohio region is now open, bringing a second region to the midwest, for a total of 33 regions across the globe.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog May 23, 2022Run your fault-tolerant workloads cost-effectively with Google Cloud Spot VMs, now GA - Google Cloud Spot VMs allow you to run your fault tolerant workloads at the lower cost per VM, and are now generally available.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog May 23, 2022Announcing PSP's cryptographic hardware offload at scale is now open source - We’re making the PSP Security Protocol for offloading encryption to network interface cards open source today. Here’s why.
HPC Infrastructure Official Blog May 23, 2022Introducing the latest Slurm on Google Cloud scripts - Announcing the latest Slurm on Google Cloud scripts, which help customers quickly and easily manage their hybrid and cloud-native HPC environments to run HPC, MPI, and AI/ML workloads on Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Official Blog TPU May 16, 2022Google Cloud unveils world’s largest publicly available ML hub with Cloud TPU v4, 90% carbon-free energy - Google Cloud unveils world’s largest publicly available machine learning cluster with up to 9 exaflops of computing power.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 16, 2022Security through collaboration: Building a more secure future with Confidential Computing - Google Cloud, Project Zero, and AMD collaborated for several months to conduct a detailed review of the technology that powers Confidential Computing.
Infrastructure Official Blog TPU May 16, 2022Cloud TPU VMs are generally available - Cloud TPU VMs with Ranking & Recommendation acceleration are generally available on Google Cloud. Customers will have direct access to TPU host machines.
Infrastructure Official Blog Terraform May 2, 2022Service Catalog: Introducing version selection for Terraform solutions - Announcing support for multiple Terraform versions for Google Service Catalog Terraform solutions.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog April 25, 2022Doing our part: How Google’s network helps internet content reach users - Behind the scenes, Google invests heavily in network infrastructure to ensure that data arrives at internet end users’ devices quickly and efficiently.
DevOps Infrastructure Official Blog SRE April 25, 2022The SRE book turns 6! - Site Reliability Engineering with Google’s SRE team! Since the publication of the SRE Book, we’ve learned and shared a lot —come explore SRE with us!
Infrastructure Official Blog April 18, 2022The journey to the cloud mitigates enterprise risk - Learn how enterprises can mitigate risk by moving data to the public cloud and examining what does and doesn’t work when it comes to data security.
Infrastructure Official Blog April 11, 2022Introducing Topaz — the first subsea cable to connect Canada and Asia - The Topaz subsea cable is the first fiber cable to connect Canada and Asia, and will provide better resiliency and lower latency for Google services.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog April 4, 2022Confidential VMs - a security breakthrough for medical device software - Idea Evolver and AstraZeneca built a medical device software product using Google Cloud Confidential VMs to enable encryption of data while in use.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog March 28, 2022Save big by temporarily suspending unneeded Compute Engine VMs—now GA - Realize huge savings by suspending temporarily unneeded VMs on Google Compute Engine and resume where you left off at a later time.
Infrastructure Official Blog VMware Engine March 21, 2022Google Cloud VMware Engine now a part of VMware Cloud Universal program - Google Cloud and VMware expand partnership to accelerate customers' cloud migration journey.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 21, 2022Timely progress towards around-the-clock carbon-free energy - Adoption of Time-based Energy Attribute Certificates (T-EACs) by partners is helping us meet our goal of using 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030.
Billing Cloud Storage Infrastructure Networking Official Blog March 21, 2022Unlock more choice with updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing - Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog March 7, 202278% of VM migrations realize payback in one year or less - IDC research report shows that 78% of businesses realize payback in one year or less after they migrate their VMworkloads to the cloud.
Cloud Marketplace Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 28, 2022Four ways Google Cloud Marketplace simplifies buying cloud software - Learn about new features in Google Cloud Marketplace that make buying and selling better than ever.
Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 21, 2022Reduce your cloud carbon footprint with new Active Assist recommendations - Active Assist recommendations help you Identify and reclaim idle workloads, to lower the carbon footprint of your Google Cloud environment further.
Cloud Build Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 7, 2022Don’t run all code, run only what’s changed: Optimizing IaC deployment with Cloud Build - Multi-folder Infrastructure as code deployment management, IaC selective deployment strategy.
Data Analytics Infrastructure Official Blog Serverless Jan. 24, 2022Data considerations for early-stage startups - Google Cloud technology stack considerations for early-stage startups.
Infrastructure Official Blog VMware Engine Jan. 24, 2022New in Google Cloud VMware Engine: Single nodes, certifications and more - The latest version of Google Cloud VMware Engine now supports single node clouds, compliance certs and Toronto availability.
Infrastructure Jan. 24, 2022Resolving network connectivity issues between GCP Services - Learn how to connect to peered private clusters and manage services such as Cloud-SQL and GKE without public IP addresses.
IAM Infrastructure Security Jan. 17, 2022Understanding Google Cloud IAM concepts with stick figures - Using analogies, stick figures and doodles to describe IAM concepts.
Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 20, 2021Why 2021 was an electrifying year for 24/7 carbon-free energy - Recapping Google’s progress in 2021 toward running on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030 — and decarbonizing the electricity system as a whole.
Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 20, 2021Top Google Cloud infrastructure blogs of 2021 - Top blog posts of 2021 — Google Cloud infrastructure.
Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 20, 2021Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in AI Infrastructure - Google Cloud named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Infrastructure, Q4 2021 report.
Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 6, 2021Expanding our infrastructure with cloud regions around the world - A Google Cloud region is coming to Santiago, Chile, and additional regions are coming to Germany, Israel, KSA and the United States.
Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 1, 2021Run your fault-tolerant workloads cost-effectively with Google Cloud Spot VMs - Google Cloud Spot VM allows customers to run their fault tolerant workloads at the lowest cost per VM of any leading cloud by providing more predictable pricing, graceful termination, and integration with automation.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 18, 2021Announcing new tools to measure—and reduce—your environmental impact - Now you can evaluate and reduce the carbon footprint of your cloud workloads, and evaluate your environmental impact with Earth Engine.
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 11, 2021What to expect from Active Assist at Google Cloud Next’21 - Learn what’s the latest with Google ML-Powered intelligence service #ActiveAssist and how to learn more about it at Next’21.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Oct. 11, 202110 ways Google Cloud IaaS stands out - Across compute, networking and storage, Google Cloud has a multitude of features that make it the best choice.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 20, 2021The new Google Cloud region in Toronto is now open - Google Cloud now has two regions in Canada: one in Montreal, and another in Toronto, providing customers with enhanced choice and data sovereignty.
Business Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 4, 2021Google invests 1 billion euros in Germany's digital future - Google is supporting Germany's transition to a digital and sustainable economy, investing 1 billion euros in digital infrastructure and clean energy.
gRPC Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Traffic Director Sept. 4, 2021Improve gRPC service availability and efficiency with Traffic Director - Make your proxyless gRPC services with Traffic Director more reliable and efficient with the new capabilities: Retry and Session Affinity.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 23, 2021How retailers can boost agility and resilience in Google Cloud - Learn how retailers can migrate their on-premises applications to the cloud, to stay relevant and competitive.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 23, 2021Announcing Apricot: a new subsea cable connecting Singapore to Japan - The new Apricot subsea cable will connect Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia by 2024.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 9, 2021Beyond mainframe modernization: The art of possibilities - Mainframe modernization has been a hot topic over the past decade or so. Over time, the term "modernization" itself is manifested in many ways. So to even begin the modernization conversation, we need to define what modernization is.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 9, 2021Google named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services again - Gartner named Google Cloud a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services, formerly Infrastructure as a Service.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 2, 2021Announcing the Blue and Raman subsea cable systems - The Blue and Raman subsea cable systems will link the Middle East with southern Europe and Asia.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 2, 2021The new Google Cloud region in Melbourne is now open - The new Google Cloud region in Melbourne adds a second region to Australia, supporting economic growth in the region.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 19, 2021The new Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now open - The Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now open for business, ready to host your workloads.
Infrastructure July 19, 2021Cleaning up your Google Cloud Environment: Safety Guaranteed* - Use Cloud Custodian’s new metric filters to clean up your Google Cloud environment while minimizing any potential impacts.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 19, 2021Beyond malloc efficiency to fleet efficiency - In a paper, the Google Systems Infrastructure team shows how using huge pages in its memory allocator improves application performance.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 5, 2021A year of carbon-free energy at our data centers - Google's new data visualization shows every hour of carbon-free energy in 2020 for all its data centers.
Infrastructure Official Blog Security June 28, 2021A blueprint for secure infrastructure on Google Cloud - The security foundations blueprint identifies core security decisions and guides you with opinionated best practices for deploying a secured Google Cloud environment.
Infrastructure Official Blog SAP June 22, 20212 ways to migrate your SAP HANA database to Google Cloud - Learn two methods for moving your current SAP environment unchanged onto Google Cloud as a lift and shift or rehost.
Infrastructure Official Blog June 14, 2021All about cables: A guide to posts on our infrastructure under the sea - All posts on Google’s global subsea cable system in one handy location.
Infrastructure Official Blog June 14, 2021Hola, South America! Announcing the Firmina subsea cable - The new Firmina subsea cable will run from the eastern U.S. to Argentina, and will be the world’s longest cable cable powered by a single power source.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 24, 2021With new geothermal project, it’s full steam ahead for 24/7 carbon-free energy - Google and Fervo are developing a next-generation geothermal power project, which will provide an “always-on” carbon-free resource for our data centers.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 10, 2021Google Cloud and Seagate: Transforming hard-disk drive maintenance with predictive ML - Seagate and Google work on ML that forecasts the probability of problems with hard disk drives.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 3, 2021Google Cloud announces new region to support growing customer base in Israel - The new Google Cloud region in Israel will bring low-latency for users in the area, as well as a full complement of Google Cloud services.
Infrastructure Official Blog April 25, 2021Faster, cheaper, greener? Pick the Google Cloud region that’s right for you - New Google Cloud region picker makes it easy for you to take advantage of our greenest data centers.
Infrastructure Official Blog April 19, 2021The new Google Cloud region in Warsaw is open - The Google Cloud region in Warsaw is now ready for business, opening doors for organizations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Infrastructure Official Blog April 5, 2021This bears repeating: Introducing the Echo subsea cable - The new Echo subsea cable will run from the U.S. to Singapore with a stop-over in Guam, and with plans to land in Indonesia.
Big Data BigQuery GCP Experience Infrastructure April 5, 2021Real-Time data delivery at scale with BigQuery - Using BigQuery Authorized Views to cut storage and processing costs.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 29, 2021The past, present and future of custom compute at Google - To meet users’ performance needs at low power, we’re doubling down on custom chips that use System on a Chip (SoC) designs.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 22, 2021How carbon-free is your cloud? New data lets you know - A Google Cloud region’s Carbon-Free Energy percentage (CFE%) lets you choose where best to run your workloads to meet your sustainability goals.
Data Analytics GCP Experience Infrastructure Official Blog March 8, 2021Helping small business customers think big with help from cloud technology - See how CRM provider Keap moved its on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud to save costs, ensure redundancy and scalability for customers, and free up time for DevOps work.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 8, 2021A timely new approach to certifying clean energy - Google is piloting a new approach called T-EACs that incentivizes the production of carbon-free energy when it’s at its most scarce on power grids.
Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 8, 2021The Dunant subsea cable, connecting the US and mainland Europe, is ready for service - The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
DevOps Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 1, 2021New white paper: Strengthening operational resilience in financial services by migrating to Google Cloud - Learn how migrating to Google Cloud can play a critical role in strengthening operational resilience in the financial services sector.
Infrastructure Serverless Jan. 11, 2021GCP Sketchnotes on GitHub - Every product in the Google Cloud family described in the visual sketchnote format to grasp the capability of the tools quickly and easily.
Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 28, 2020Expanding our global footprint with new cloud regions - Google Cloud is expanding its global network with new regions in South America, Europe, and Asia.
Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 15, 2020Google Cloud named a leader in latest Forrester Research IaaS Platform Native Security Wave - Forrester evaluated seven public cloud platforms against 29 criteria. Google Cloud scored highest overall on current offering, and received the highest score possible in its strategic plans for security posture management, hypervisor security, guest OS and container protection, and network security.
Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 7, 2020How computing has evolved, and why you need a multi-cloud strategy - A multi-cloud strategy gives companies the freedom to use the best possible cloud for each workload.
GCP Experience Infrastructure Kubernetes Microservices Oct. 12, 2020How FINN.no moved 800 microservices to the cloud in 5 hours - Learn how we migrated our production environment from an on-premise data center to Google Cloud Platform and did so in a single night!
Infrastructure Official Blog Oct. 5, 2020Google Cloud migration made easy - Migration to cloud is the first step to digital transformation because it offers a quick, simple path to cost savings and enhanced flexibility. In this article we’ll focus on migration of on-premise or public cloud hosted infrastructure into Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 28, 2020Cloud migration: What you need to know (and where to find it) - Google Cloud offers a rich set of solutions and documentation to help guide your cloud migration. Here’s where to find what you need.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 21, 2020Announcing ‘round-the-clock clean energy for cloud - Google Cloud sets goal for all services to be powered by carbon-free energy sources, all the time, by 2030.
Business Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 14, 2020Google Cloud named a Leader in first Forrester Wave: Public Cloud Development & Infrastructure Platforms for ANZ - Forrester noted Google Cloud has built a compelling enterprise strategy using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), analytics, containers, and functions to build new applications or modernise legacy ones.
Business Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 14, 2020Google a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services - For the third consecutive year, Google Cloud is a leader in Gartner Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant.
Big Data BigQuery Infrastructure Terraform Aug. 17, 2020Data lake on GCP using Terraform - Using Terraform to set up infrastructure-as-code for a Data Lake on Google Cloud Platform.
Cloud Deployment Manager Infrastructure Terraform July 27, 2020Why should you treat infrastructure like software? - A brief intro into principles of immutable infrastructures.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 20, 2020What’s shaking? Earthquake detection with submarine cables - Google developed a novel way to detect earthquakes and tsunamis on our global submarine cables.
Advanced AWS Infrastructure Networking July 6, 2020Connecting an AWS and GCP VPC using an IPSec VPN Tunnel with BGP - The article explains how to set IPSec VPN Tunnel between AWS and GCP.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 6, 2020Infrastructure for all: What happened at Next OnAir this week - In our third week at Next OnAir, we showed how Google cloud compute, networks, storage and global footprint support your applications.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 6, 2020Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir—delivering infrastructure for all your apps - A roll-up of new and recent infrastructure announcements at Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir.
Business Infrastructure Official Blog July 6, 2020Announcing the Grace Hopper subsea cable, linking the U.S., U.K. and Spain - The Grace Hopper private subsea cable ready to connect the UK and Spain to the US.
Infrastructure Official Blog July 6, 2020Next OnAir sessions to get the most out of Google Cloud infrastructure - A curated list of breakout sessions from Google Cloud Next ‘20 OnAir infrastructure week.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog July 3, 2020Bare Metal Solution: Coming to a Google Cloud data center near you - With Bare Metal Solution, now you can run specialized databases in five new Google Cloud regions.
Infrastructure Official Blog June 29, 2020The new Google Cloud region in Jakarta is now open
Business Infrastructure Official Blog June 15, 2020Google Cloud and Telefónica Partner to Accelerate Digital Transformation for Spanish Businesses - Google Cloud announces plans to launch a cloud region in Spain.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 4, 2020Viva Las Vegas, with our latest Google Cloud Platform region - The new Las Vegas GCP region helps get capacity close to local users.
Infrastructure April 27, 202022 Google Cloud Regions and 67 Zones Equals Endless Possibilities - Overview of Google Cloud regions and zones and important things related to them.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 28, 2020A note to our customers: How we’re supporting you through COVID-19 - As COVID-19 progresses, many customers face mounting pressure to keep their organizations up and running, and rely on us to help them stay connected and productive. This post shares our business continuity plans from both a technical and customer support perspective.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 23, 2020Google Cloud named a leader in the Forrester Wave for Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms - The report evaluated cloud providers’ infrastructure and application development capabilities—important considerations for enterprises turning to the cloud to support their business growth and drive innovation.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 9, 2020Expanding our footprint to support global customers in 2020 - Announcing new Google Cloud regions for 2020.
Infrastructure Official Blog March 2, 2020Hitting the Silicon Slopes with a new Salt Lake City region, now open - The Salt Lake City region is now open for GCP customers.
Infrastructure March 2, 2020Data centers are more energy efficient than ever - Using artificial intelligence to improve energy efficiency in Google's data centers.
Infrastructure Official Blog Feb. 24, 2020Here to serve Korea’s businesses with a new GCP region in Seoul - New GCP region in Seoul is officially open for business.
Infrastructure Security Jan. 20, 202010 questions to ask yourself when migrating to Google Cloud - Some of the big questions to ask yourself when you want to migrate to Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Jan. 20, 2020Disaster Recovery on Google Cloud for Data (Part 2) - The article goes through a process of planing data recovery on Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Official Blog Jan. 20, 2020IBM Power Systems now available on Google Cloud - Customers can run IBM Power Systems as a service on Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Jan. 13, 2020Hot Disaster Recovery for Applications on Google Cloud - A brief overview of setting Hot Disaster Recovery on Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Kubernetes Dec. 30, 2019Build time-related tasks with Kubernetes - Deploy time-bound microservice with Cronjob on Google Kubernetes Engine
Compute Engine Infrastructure Official Blog Dec. 16, 2019Performance-driven dynamic resource management in E2 VMs - A technical look at dynamic resource management behind E2 VM machine types.
GCP Experience Infrastructure Terraform Dec. 9, 2019Network Infrastructure At O’Reilly - Experience of migrating O'Reilly's infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform.
AWS DevOps Infrastructure Dec. 9, 2019How To Create A GKE Cluster using AWS CloudFormation - Using CloudFormation to create resources in Google Cloud.
Compute Engine Infrastructure Dec. 9, 2019Solution: Mass VM migrations to GCP with Migrate for Compute Engine
Infrastructure Storage Nov. 25, 2019NetApp and Google Cloud Drive Innovation in the Cloud - General availability of Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) and Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) for Google Cloud from NetApp company.
Infrastructure Official Blog Nov. 18, 2019Curie subsea cable set to transmit to Chile, with a pit stop to Panama - Google’s Curie private subsea cable is ready for service between the U.S. and Chile, with a branch to Panama
Infrastructure Nov. 4, 2019Disaster Recovery on Google Cloud: An Overview - Basic information about Disaster Recovery.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 30, 2019Accelerating cloud adoption in Poland with key partnership and a new cloud region - Poland’s Domestic Cloud Provider (DCP) will resell Google Cloud in central Europe, and there will be a new region in Warsaw.
Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 30, 2019Get your cloud migration journey off on the right foot with these three lessons - When moving to the cloud, many organizations focus on technology and overlook an area just as complex: cultural change. Here are some strategies that can help.
Infrastructure Aug. 26, 2019ZoneCheckr - Tool for a geographical overview of regions and zones for main cloud providers.
Infrastructure Kubernetes Networking Terraform Aug. 12, 2019Creating reusable infrastructure with Terraform on GCP - This blog post deals with the infrastructure of an entire project to be built on the Google Cloud Platform with Terraform and creating the necessary infrastructure for serving in Kubernetes.
Infrastructure Networking Official Blog Aug. 5, 2019Driving enterprise modernization with Google Cloud infrastructure - Google Cloud has new features to help you migrate to Compute Engine. Plus, Traffic Director is GA, and Layer 7 Internal Load Balancer is in beta.
Business Infrastructure Official Blog July 1, 2019Introducing Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa - Google’s private Equiano subsea cable will improve connectivity, resilience and latency for the people who live and work in Africa.
Infrastructure Official Blog May 20, 2019Google Cloud launches new Osaka region to support growing customer base in Japan - Beside Tokyo, Japan got the Osaka region.
DevOps Infrastructure Official Blog SRE April 8, 2019Want repeatable scale? Adopt infrastructure as code on GCP - The article describes concepts and motivation for Infrastructure as a Code approach.
Cloud Services Platform Infrastructure Feb. 25, 2019Google wants Cloud Services Platform to Borg your datacenter - Interview with Urs Hölzle (Senior vice president of technical infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google.).
DevOps Infrastructure Oct. 8, 2018GCP infrastructure and operations: watch and learn - List of sessions that attendees at Next ‘18 in San Francisco rated highest on the topics of infrastructure and operations.
Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Official Blog Sept. 10, 2018Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud: Now generally available - Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is now generally available, giving GCP customers platform that bridges on-premises and cloud environments.
Infrastructure Official Blog Aug. 20, 2018Building a hybrid render farm on GCP—new guide available - New Guide to learn how to securely extend your on-premises render farm to Google Cloud.
Infrastructure Aug. 6, 2018Google is Switching to a Self-Driving Data Center Management System - Google’s use of AI to optimize data center efficiency has entered a new phase .
Infrastructure Official Blog July 23, 2018Our Los Angeles cloud region is open for business - The Los Angeles Google Cloud Platform region is officially open.
Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure July 2, 2018Lights, camera, cloud: new tools for our media and entertainment customers - Los Angeles region will launch in July.
DevOps Infrastructure June 11, 2018Test Driven Infrastructure on GCP - Testing created infrastructure on GCP using InSpec.
Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure Sept. 25, 2017HashiCorp and Google expand collaboration, easing secret and infrastructure management - How products from HashiCorp (Cloud Infrastracture Automation) can be used on Google Cloud Platform
Infrastructure Sept. 25, 2017Using Deployment Manager to automate the creation of GCP’s Shared VPC - Deployment Manager use case
Infrastructure Teradata July 3, 2017Defining a Reference Architecture for Teradata-to-Google Cloud Platform Data Warehouse Conversions - Describing an architectural framework for conversions of data warehouses from Teradata to the Google Cloud Platform.
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