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All 123 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘22

We loved hosting Google Cloud Next ‘22 this week in cities around the world and are excited to share our favorite moments and announcements. We kicked off our 24-hour livestream broadcast with an opening keynote in New York City, then moved west to share our “Top 10 Cloud Predictions” developer keynote from the Google Cloud headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Next ‘22 then crossed the Pacific to Tokyo, Japan, then down to Bengaluru, India, and finished out in Munich, Germany. Thank you to the thousands of developers who joined our global Innovators Hive events, and be sure to check out all the breakout sessions.There’s too much goodness for anyone to catch it all, so here are some video highlights before you dig in below for all the details. Missed the opening keynote? Here’s a 13-minute highlight reel.Curious about our Top 10 Predictions? See the 2 minute speed-round.Want to go deeper? Here’s a full recap of all 123 (!) announcements we made this week, all in one place.Open Infrastructure Cloud Enterprise architects and developers have a big job: to help your company innovate faster, while at the same time working with resources that may not be growing as fast. In the session What’s next for enterprise architects and developers, Sachin Gupta, VP & GM, Infrastructure at Google Cloud, took us on a tour of new enhancements to the infrastructure portfolio that can help accelerate your innovation and TCO. Here’s a complete list. Google Cloud regionsWe introduced five new Google Cloud regions:1. Austria2. Greece3. Norway4. South Africa5. Sweden Compute6. The new C3 Compute Engine virtual machine family is powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and features Google’s custom Intel Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). 7. Cloud TPU v4 Pods, Google’s custom ML infrastructure for training large-scale, state-of-the-art ML models with high price-performance and carbon efficiency, are now GA. 8. The A2 Ultra GPU, now GA, is powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU with 80 GBs of GPU memory, and delivers 25% higher throughput on inference and 2x higher performance on HPC simulations than original A2 machine shapes. 9. New Flexible Committed Use Discounts (Flex CUDs) can help you save up to 46% off on-demand Compute Engine pricing, in exchange for a one- or three-year commitment.10. Batch, now GA, is a fully managed service that helps you run batch jobs easily, reliably, and at scale.Networking 11. L7 for Private Service Connect provides consumer-controlled security, routing, and telemetry.12. Private Service Connect over interconnect provides support for on-prem traffic through Cloud Interconnects to Private Service Connect endpoints.13. Private Service Connect for hybrid environments lets producers and consumers securely connect and access managed services from cloud or on-prem.14. There are five new managed services partners for Private Service Connect: Confluent, Databricks, Datastax, Grafana, and Neo4J. 15. The new C3 virtual machine family features 200 Gbps networking, offering 2x the bandwidth of the C2 family, and line-rate encryption. 16. Network Function Optimizer delivers enhanced networking capabilities that allow customers to connect multiple container network functions, apply labels for selection and to steer the traffic to them. 17. Dynamic compression for Cloud CDN is GA, and reduces the size of responses transferred from the edge to a client to accelerate page load times and reduce egress traffic.18. Media CDN supports the Live Stream API to ingest and package source content into HTTP-Live Streaming and DASH formats for optimized live streaming.19. Dynamic Ad Insertion with Google Ad Manager for Media CDN provides customized video ad placements.20. Media CDN’s new third-party ad insertion capability is based on the Video Stitcher API. 21. Network Actions for Media CDN, in private Preview, is a fully managed serverless solution based on open-source web assembly, and unlocks custom use cases such as security controls, cache offload, custom logs, and more.22. Cloud Firewall Standard is a new tier for Cloud Firewall that offers expanded policies via objects for firewall rules that simplify configuration and micro-segmentation. 23. Cloud Firewall Essentials, Cloud Firewall’s new foundational tier, includes recent support for Global and Regional Network Firewall Policies, and IAM-governed Tags. Learn more about the Cloud Firewall family in MOD107.24. Google Cloud Armor now supports ML-based Adaptive Protection to automatically deploy its proposed rules.25. Cloud Armor gained enhanced tuning for preconfigured WAF rules, adding field exclusion, signature opt-in, and expanded JSON content type support. 26. Preconfigured WAF rules for OWASP Top 10 web-app vulnerability risks are now GA.27. Google Cloud Armor was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022. 28. Network Analyzer for Network Intelligence Center automatically monitors VPC network configurations and detects misconfigurations and suboptimal configurations, and is now GA.29. Network Intelligence Center is integrated with the Recommender API.30. The Performance Dashboard for Network Intelligence Center provides visibility into the performance of the entire Google Cloud network and into your project’s resources. 31. Network Intelligence Center Network Topology has been enhanced with a new “top talkers” view. 32. Firewall Insights for Network Intelligence Center includes enhancements such as IPv6 rule coverage and custom insight refresh cycle to generate shadowed rule insights for projects. You can learn more about all our networking announcements in our blog post, and in the session Simplify and secure your network for all workloads.Hybrid and multicloud33. A new user interface in Anthos provides simplified cluster configuration. 34. New fleet management capabilities in Anthos let you manage growing fleets of container clusters across clouds, on-premises, and at the edge and for different use cases. 35. Anthos clusters in retail edge environments now support virtual machines (GA). Learn more about Anthos in session MOD208.36. Google Distributed Cloud Edge GPU-Optimized Config, is now GA in server-rack form factors powered by 12 Nvidia T4 GPUs. Learn more in session MOD207.Developer productivity37. A new Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription includes Innovators Plus developer benefits for $299/year.38. Cloud Deploy supports continuous deployment directly to Cloud Run, with one-click approvals and rollbacks, enterprise security and audit, and built-in delivery metrics. Learn more in sessionBLD203.39. New Cloud Run Integrations tie in Google Cloud services with a single click, for example, configuring domains with a Load Balancer or connecting to a Redis Cache.40. Cloud Run customized health checks offer user-defined, container-level HTTP and TCP Startup probes. 41. A new workshop helps you discover how to unlock efficiency and innovation with a GKE Autopilot.42. Google has joined the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group, a consortium of leaders in the Java community working to promote a higher quality, developer-centric standard for Java distributions, and will contribute to and commercially support the Adoptium Temurin JDK.Developer security43. Software Delivery Shield is a solution for improving the security of all the code, people, systems, and processes that contribute to development and delivery of your software supply chain. Learn more in the blog, and at session SEC100. 44. The new Cloud Workstations provides fully managed development environments on Google Cloud, and is a part of Software Delivery Shield.45. A partnership with JetBrains offers fully managed Jetbrains IDEs as part of Cloud Workstations.46. Source Protect for Cloud Code gives developers real-time security feedback as they work in their IDEs, identifying issues such as vulnerable dependencies and license reporting.47. Assured Open Source Software now includes 250 packages across Java and Python that are all regularly scanned, analyzed, and fuzz-tested for vulnerabilities.48. Container Analysis now includes on-push vulnerability scanning of Maven and Go containers and non-containerized Maven packages.49. Container Analysis can now automatically generate a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).50. Cloud Build officially supports SLSA Level 3 builds.51. There’s authenticated and non-falsifiable build provenance in Cloud Build for both containerized applications and non-containerized Maven and Python packages.52. Cloud Build can display security insights for built applications. 53. Google Kubernetes Engine’s (GKE) security posture dashboard provides detailed assessments, severity ratings, and advice on the security posture of your clusters and workloads, including insights into OS vulnerabilities and workload configurations. Management and migration tools54. Migration Center brings assessment, planning, migration, and modernization tooling into a centralized location.55. Dual Run for Google Cloud allows customers to simultaneously run mainframe workloads on existing mainframes and on Google Cloud, to perform real-time testing before promoting the new Google Cloud environment as their system of record. Learn more here.56. Workload Manager, now in Preview for SAP workloads, is a Compute Engine service that provides automated analysis of enterprise systems on Google Cloud.57. Google Cloud Carbon Footprint, now GA, provides granular emissions data for cloud workloads and transparency into the energy scores of Google Cloud regions.58. Active Assist carbon emissions estimates are GA, making it simpler to remove unattended projects. Data CloudGoogle’s Data Cloud can transform your decision making and turn data into action by operationalizing data analytics and AI. In the session What’s next for data analysts and data scientists, June Yang, VP, Cloud AI and Industry Solutions and Sudhir Sampatrao Hasbe, Sr. Director, Product Management, discussed the latest data analytics and AI innovations. And in What’s next for data engineers, Andi Gutmans, VP & GM for Databases talked about product innovations across Spanner, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL and BigQuery. Here’s the breakdown. AI and ML59. Translation Hub is a fully managed, self-serve AI Agent that lets localization managers and other employees translate content into 135 languages at the click of a button, helping promote more inclusive, impactful communication while also cutting costs and hyperscaling content.60. DocAI Warehouse leverages AI to help businesses store, organize, search, govern, and manage documents and their extracted data and metadata. 61. The new Document AI Workbench feature lets users extract data from any document by creating business-specific custom document parsers.62. The Vertex AI Vision service can make powerful computer vision and image recognition AI more accessible to data practitioners.63. OpenXLA Project is a consortium that includes Amazon Web Services, AMD, Arm, Google, Intel, Meta, NVIDIA, and more, and whose projects will accelerate machine learning by addressing incompatibilities between frameworks and hardware. Data analytics64. BigQuery now lets you analyze unstructured and streaming data, such as raw documents and PDFs, video and audio, even call center logs—as much as 90% of all data is considered unstructured.65. BigLake now supports a trio of popular data formats: Apache Iceberg, the Linux Foundation’s Delta Lake, and — coming soon — Apache Hudi.66. The integration of BigQuery with Apache Spark lets data practitioners create procedures in BigQuery with Spark that can integrate with their SQL pipelines, greatly speeding up and enhancing processing times. 67. System Insights now includes Cloud SQL security and performance recommenders.68. Updates to Dataplex will automate common processes related to data quality and data lineage, cutting down on manual work to clean up data and enhancing accuracy overall.69. We expanded integrations to our data cloud products with several popular enterprise data platforms, including Collibra, Databricks, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Sisu Data, Reltio, and Striim.Business intelligence70. Google Cloud’s business intelligence family is now consolidated under the Looker umbrella, and Data Studio is now Looker Studio, available at no cost.71. You can now access Looker data models from Looker Studio. 72. A new Looker Studio Pro offers new enterprise management features, team collaboration capabilities, and SLAs. 73. Looker (Google Cloud core) is available in the Google Cloud console and is integrated with core cloud infrastructure services, such as key security and management services. 74. Enhancements to Looker, BigQuery, and Microsoft Power BI make it easier for Tableau and Microsoft customers to analyze trusted data from Looker and simply connect it with BigQuery.75. Looker will be integrated into many of your favorite Google Workspace programs — starting with Google Sheets — combining our productivity and intelligence tools in one place. 76. A new partnership with Sisu Data provides easy access to Sisu capabilities from inside Looker and BigQuery, finding root causes 80% faster than traditional approaches. Learn more about our business intelligence innovations here or in the session, Bringing together a complete, unified BI platform with Looker and Data Studio. Databases77. Cloud Bigtable change streams allows you to track writes, updates, and deletes to Bigtable databases and replicate them to downstream systems such as BigQuery. 78. The AlloyDB partner ecosystem now includes more than 30 partner solutions to support business intelligence, analytics, data governance, observability, and system integration.79. A Spanner PostgreSQL interface now supports its first group of PostgreSQL ecosystem drivers, starting with Java (JDBC) and Go (pgx). 80. By integrating Vertex AI with Spanner, you can use a simple SQL statement in Spanner to call a machine learning model in Vertex AI.81. For applications using a Firestore backend, we’ve removed the limits for write throughput and concurrent active connections. 82. The new Firestore COUNT() function lets you perform cost-efficient, scalable, count aggregations. 83. Support for Time-to-live (TTL) in Firestore lets you pre-specify when documents should expire, and rely on Firestore to automatically delete expired documents.Trusted CloudThe changing threat landscape requires a ground-up security transformation. Sandra Joyce, EVP, Intelligence & Government Affairs at Mandiant, and Sunil Potti, VP & GM, Cloud Security for Google Cloud, discussed Google Cloud’s security vision and our latest product innovations in the session What’s next for security professionals, including:84. The new Chronicle Security Operations is a modern, cloud-native suite that can better enable cybersecurity teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. 85. Confidential Space allows multiple parties to securely collaborate, boosted by a trust guarantee that their data stays protected from their partners.86. A Google Cloud portfolio of solutions helps customers address their digital sovereignty concerns.87. We’ll be integrating the groundbreaking technology of Foreseeti Security, a startup focused on attack simulation and risk quantification, into Security Command Center in Q4. It can help you apply targeted remediations before attackers can take advantage of high-risk vulnerabilities.88. To help organizations better manage risks in their online channels, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and Signifyd will partner to bring to market a joint anti-fraud and abuse solution. 89. Palo Alto Networks customers can now pair Prisma Access with BeyondCorp Enterprise Essentials to help secure private and SaaS app access while mitigating internet threats across managed and unmanaged devices with a secure enterprise browsing experience. 90. We packaged our best practices and implementation experience for customers in Zero Trust Advisory solutions, and our Cybersecurity Action Team and select partners can help guide you through the Zero Trust journey with exploratory workshops, architecture reviews, customized recommendations, and implementation support. Collaboration CloudIn the session What’s next in productivity and hybrid work, Aparna Pappu, VP & GM for Google Workspace and Ilyn Brown, VP, Product Management for Google Workspace made a wealth of announcements focused on helping organizations thrive in a hybrid world. This included our investments in immersive connections, our approach to bringing people closer together through our communication products, smart canvas, our next-generation collaboration experience, and enhancing our cloud-first security model to help people work safer.Read about all of these Workspace announcements here.Google Meet, Chat, and Voice91. Adaptive framing gives everyone a chance to be seen in the conference room when collaborating with remote colleagues, using AI-powered cameras from Huddly and Logitech.92. Meeting room check-ins lets participants know who is in the room by displaying their names alongside the room.93. Companion mode mobile gives in-room attendees the ability to fully participate by raising their hand, chatting, or asking questions from their phone while leveraging the in-room audio and video. 94. Assigning conference rooms to breakout rooms helps manage the logistics for in-room attendees during breakout discussions. 95. Automatic video framing centers participants in their video tile before joining a meeting and lets them manually reframe at any time. 96. Auto transcriptions removes the burden of taking notes (English, with French, German, Portuguese and Spanish coming in 2023).97. Speaker spotlight in Slides collapses the boundary between the story and storyteller in a hybrid world by placing the speaker’s video directly within their content. 98. Custom emojis and inline threaded conversations enable people to express themselves more authentically and go deeper on specific conversations. 99. Broadcast-only spaces in Google Chat make it easier for leaders to make broad announcements and maintain connections across their organizations. 100. SIP Link in Google Voice allows companies to assign and manage phone numbers provided by their telecommunication provider alongside Google-provisioned numbers. 101. APIs for Meet and Chat give developers programmatic access to common functions like creating and starting meetings or initiating messages directly from a third-party app. Asana and LumApps will be the first partners to leverage these in their apps. 102. Meet add-on SDK enables developers to embed their app directly into the Meet experience, with Figma being one of the first add-on partners. 103. Chat and AppSheet integration enable people to create and interact with custom AppSheet apps right within Chat. Our low-code and no-code platform lets anyone without coding experience build mobile and web applications quickly.Smart canvas104. Custom building blocks in Google Docs enable users to build their own reusable components that can be easily accessed with the @ menu. 105. Variables in Google Docs enable users to define common data elements in a Doc, such as a client name or contract number, and update it throughout the document by changing the value in one place. 106. Smart chips and a new timeline view in Google Sheets extends the power of smart canvas allowing people to easily pull in people, files, and calendar details. 107. Smart chip data extraction lets users quickly populate spreadsheets with important information from chips they use across Workspace. 108. Smart chips for third-party apps lets users view and engage with rich third-party data in the flow of work rather than switching tabs or context, including AODocs, Asana, Atlassian, Figma, LumApps, Miro, Tableau, and ZenDesk coming soon. Work safer109. We’re extending client-side encryption (CSE) to Gmail and Google Calendar, allowing Enterprise Plus and Education Plus/Standard customers to have complete control over access to their data to address a broad range of data sovereignty and compliance requirements.110. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) checks in Google Chat lets admins create custom policies to prevent sensitive information from leaking, scans content in real-time and applies corrective action fast.111. Trust rules in Drive, currently in beta, allow for more granular control of internal and external sharing, providing admins more flexibility in establishing collaboration boundaries. Customers and partnersWe wouldn’t be here today without our customers and partners. Throughout the keynotes and breakout sessions, they joined us on stage to discuss how they are using Google Cloud technologies to transform how organizations do business. The following organizations announced new or expanded relationships with Google Cloud: 112. Coinbase, a leading crypto exchange, will move to Google Cloud’s infrastructure and certain Google Cloud customers will now be able to pay for cloud services with cryptocurrencies using Coinbase Commerce.113. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has selected Google Cloud as its preferred cloud partner to build its data product innovation strategy. 114. Multinational insurance company Prudential plc and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership to enhance overall health and financial inclusion for communities across Asia and Africa.115. Rite Aid will rely on Google Cloud to help it realize its vision of a modern pharmacy, building new, personalized experiences that allow Rite Aid pharmacists to spend more time engaging with customers.116. Snap and Google Cloud will expand their ten-year partnership to power the next phase of Snap’s growth, with a focus on infrastructure, big data and analytics solutions, and AI/ML. 117. Toyota announced the launch of Speech On-Device for select vehicles powered by Google Cloud technology, which will enable voice requests to be served directly by vehicles’ multimedia system processors, without the need for internet connectivity. 118. Together, T-Mobile and Google Cloud will help to improve the wireless provider’s customer experience services using our expertise in data analytics, AI, and ML, and our extensive portfolio of leading 5G and edge computing solutions.119. African e-commerce company Twiga Foods is working with Google Cloud to run an efficient food value chain that connects farmers directly with vendors.120.  Wayfair has completed a full migration of its data center applications and services to the cloud, with Google Cloud as the foundation of its overall cloud strategy.121. Paramount Global, one of the world’s largest producers of premium entertainment content, is using Media CDN, citing consistently superior performance and offload metrics. 122. Accenture and Google Cloud expanded their global partnership, creating a new, dedicated Google Cloud professional services group to accelerate customers’ consumption of Google Cloud services. 123. Lufthansa Group announced that Google Cloud helped it cut its Co2 emissions by an estimated 7,400 tons per year — the equivalent of 18 Boeing 777 roundtrip flights between Zurich and New York City or 370 rotations between London and Zurich. OK, that was a lot of announcements. Thank you to all of the teams at Google as well as our customers and partners who are building together with us. As Thomas Kurian shared at the end of his opening keynote, “We’re excited to develop technology today to help you create a better tomorrow.”  We’re already making plans for next year — watch this space to stay in the loop about Google Cloud Next ‘23, and other events in your area.Related ArticleWhat’s next for digital transformation in the cloudGoogle Cloud ’Next 22 is here! Check out the official kickoff blog and hear from our CEO, Thomas Kurian, on new customer wins, partnershi…Read Article
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What's new in Google Cloud databases: More unified. More open. More intelligent.

Every organization is going through some form of digital transformation and serving their customers in new ways. Modern conveniences have taught consumers that their experience is paramount — no matter how big or small the company or how complex the problem. Powering these digital experiences are operational databases, the backbone of most applications. The quality of the customer experience is critically dependent on how reliable, scalable, performant, and secure these operational databases are. At Google Cloud, our mission is to accelerate every organization’s ability to digitally transform. A large part of that is helping our customers and partners innovate faster with a unified, open, and intelligent data cloud platform. At Google Cloud Next, we’re excited to announce new Google Cloud databases capabilities that enable more opportunities for growth and innovation within your organization.The four key areas we’ve focused on are: Building a unified and integrated data cloud for transactional and analytical dataBreaking free from legacy databases and our commitment to open ecosystems and standardsInfusing AI and machine learning across data-driven workflowsEmpowering builders to be more productive and impactfulUnifying transactional and analytical data Traditionally, data architectures have separated transactional and analytical workloads, including their underlying databases — and for good reason. Transactional databases are optimized for fast reads and writes, while analytical databases are optimized for aggregating large data sets. Because these systems are largely decoupled, it can create many inefficiencies. Enterprises struggle to piece together disparate data solutions, they spend valuable time managing complex data pipelines, and they expend a lot of effort replicating data between databases. Ultimately, they find it difficult to build intelligent, data-driven applications. At Google Cloud, we’re uniquely positioned to solve this problem because of how we’ve architected our data platform. Our transactional and analytical databases are built on a highly scalable distributed storage system, with disaggregated compute and storage, and high-performance Google-owned global networking. This combination allows us to provide tightly integrated data cloud services across Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and BigQuery.We’re excited to announce the Preview of Bigtable change streams for easy data replication. Bigtable is a highly performant, fully managed NoSQL database service that processes over 5 billion requests per second at peak and has more than 10 exabytes of data under management. With change streams, you can track writes, updates, and deletes to Bigtable databases and replicate them to downstream systems such as BigQuery. Change streams helps support real-time analytics, event-based architectures, and multicloud operational database deployments. This capability joins recently launched Spanner change streams. We also recently announced Datastream for BigQuery in Preview, which provides easy replication of data from operational database sources such as AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, directly into BigQuery with a few simple clicks. With a serverless, auto-scaling architecture, Datastream allows you to easily set up an Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) pipeline for low-latency data replication, enabling real-time insights in BigQuery.Datastream enables real-time insights in BigQuery with just a few steps.Greater freedom and flexibility with open source and open standardsIn recent years, organizations have become unwilling to tolerate opaque costs, restrictive licensing, and vendor lock-in, and we’re seeing them increasingly adopt open-source databases and open standards. In particular, PostgreSQL has emerged as a leading alternative to legacy, proprietary databases because of its rich functionality, ecosystem extensions, and enterprise readiness.To make sure we support your workloads, we offer three PostgreSQL options. First, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a PostgreSQL-compatible database, currently in preview, that delivers the performance, availability, scale, and functionality needed to support commercial-grade workloads. In our performance tests, AlloyDB is more than 4x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads. We’re excited to announce a major expansion of the AlloyDB partner ecosystem, with more than 30 partner solutions to support business intelligence, analytics, data governance, observability, and system integration.We also recently announced that our Database Migration Service supports migration of PostgreSQL databases to AlloyDB, in preview. This service helps you migrate to AlloyDB from any PostgreSQL database — whether it’s on premises, self-managed on Google Cloud, or on another cloud — in an easy-to-use, secure, and serverless manner, and with minimal downtime.The second PostgreSQL offering is Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, a fully managed, up-to-date version of PostgreSQL for easy lift-and-shift migrations or new application development. We support the most popular PostgreSQL extensions and over 100 database flags and you get the same experience of open source PostgreSQL, with the strong management, availability, and security of Cloud SQL. It’s no surprise that Cloud SQL is used by more than 90% of the top 100 Google Cloud customers. New customers can get started with a Cloud SQL free trial.Finally, Spanner, our globally-distributed relational database with strong external consistency and up to 99.999% availability, offers a PostgreSQL interface that lets you take advantage of familiar tools and skills from the PostgreSQL ecosystem. We’re continuing to prioritize PostgreSQL compatibility of Spanner, and are excited to announce a key milestone — the Spanner PostgreSQL interface now supports its first group of PostgreSQL ecosystem drivers, starting with Java (JDBC) and Go (pgx). This support can reduce the cost of migrating apps to Spanner using off-the-shelf PostgreSQL drivers your developers already use. And to further democratize access to Spanner, we recently announced free trial instances.Infusing AI and machine learning across data-driven workflowsAI and machine learning (ML) are critical to data-driven transformations, helping you get more value from your data. Among their many benefits, AI and ML tools can help recognize patterns, enhance and improve operational capabilities with new insights, and create compelling customer experiences. Most companies face significant hurdles not only trying to build ML models, but also integrating them into applications without extensive coding and specialized AI/ML skills. Harnessing AI and ML in workflows of all kinds should be easy, especially within your data platform. At Google Cloud, we’ve invested in AI and ML technologies for both database system optimizations to make our services more intelligent, and for AI and ML service integrations. For database system optimizations, capabilities such as Cloud SQL cost recommenders and AlloyDB autopilot make it easier for database administrators and DevOps teams to manage performance and capacity for large fleets of databases. In addition to infusing AI and ML into our databases, we’ve been focused on providing integration with Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s machine learning platform, to enable model inferencing directly within the database transaction. We’re excited to announce, in preview, the integration of Vertex AI with Spanner. You can now use a simple SQL statement in Spanner to call a machine learning model in Vertex AI.With this integration, AlloyDB and now Spanner can allow data scientists to build models easily in Vertex AI and developers to access these models using the SQL query language. For example, retailers need to detect fraudulent transactions during the checkout process and take appropriate action. With the Vertex AI integration, you can simply call the fraud detection ML model in the Spanner query using a function like ML_PREDICT.Predict fraudulent transactions in retail checkout process using Vertex AI integrationEmpowering builders to be more productiveBuilding, testing and deploying apps is cumbersome. Plus, even after an app is built, maintaining it requires regular monitoring, performance tuning, scaling, and security patching — all of which distract developers from strategic initiatives. As a result, organizations can be slow to innovate and may fall behind their competition. That’s why we prioritize the developer experience and are excited to share the latest advancements we’re making in Firestore, Cloud SQL, and Spanner.Developers love Firestore because of how fast they can build an app end to end. More than 4 million databases have been created in Firestore, and Firestore applications power more than 1 billion monthly active end users using Firebase Auth. But what happens when the application grows? We want to ensure developers can focus on productivity, even when their apps are experiencing hyper-growth. To achieve this, we’ve made three updates to Firestore all aimed at supporting growth and reducing costs. For applications using Firestore as a backend-as-a-service, we’ve removed the limits for write throughput and concurrent active connections. Now, if your app becomes an overnight success, you can be confident that Firestore will scale smoothly. Additionally, we’re rolling out the COUNT() function in preview next week, which gives you the ability to perform cost-efficient, scalable, count aggregations. This capability supports use cases like counting the number of friends a user has, or determining the number of documents in a collection. Finally, to help you efficiently manage storage costs, we’ve introduced time-to-live (TTL) which enables you to pre-specify when documents should expire, and can rely on Firestore to automatically delete expired documents.We’re also making advancements to security and performance in Cloud SQL and Spanner. Now it can be easier to detect, diagnose, and prevent database performance problems with Cloud SQL Query Insights for MySQL (also available for PostgreSQL). We recently introduced PostgreSQL System Insights in preview, and are excited to announce two additional types of Cloud SQL recommenders. Security recommenders continuously detect security vulnerabilities and check for risky security configurations such as a public IP address with broad access or unencrypted connections. Performance recommenders, meanwhile, help identify and resolve common misconfigurations that increase the risk of performance degradation or downtime. We recently launched Query insights for Spanner which provides pre-built dashboards for quickly diagnosing query performance issues. In addition, lock and transaction insights for Spanner (coming Q4, 2022) will help troubleshoot lock contention issues on Spanner that can slow down applications. You can easily correlate row-ranges, columns, and sample transactions contending for locks and debug high latency transactions using granular metrics.Pre-built dashboards to troubleshoot high latencies due to lock contentions in Spanner.Tap into new possibilitiesThe future of data has endless possibilities, and we’re excited to partner with you to help accelerate your data-driven business transformation. Tune into Next ‘22 for more details on the announcements, and get inspired by learning how companies like MLB, PLAID, Forbes, DaVita, Credit Karma, and Box are innovating with Google Cloud databases.Related ArticleLatest database innovations for transforming the customer experienceGoogle Cloud adds Spanner free trial instances and fine-grained access control, Datastream for BigQuery and PostgreSQL, database migratio…Read Article
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Advancing digital sovereignty on Europe's terms

In September 2021, we unveiled “Cloud. On Europe’s Terms,” an ambitious commitment to deliver cloud services that provide the highest levels of digital sovereignty while enabling the next wave of growth and transformation for European organizations. We’ve since seen increasing demand from customers and policymakers for digital sovereignty solutions. Working closely with our European customers, partners, policy makers, and governments, today at Google Cloud Next we’re pleased to share that we’ve delivered and are continuing to develop a broad portfolio of Sovereign Solutions that can support European customers’ current and emerging sovereignty needs as they progress their digital transformation. Google Cloud Sovereign Solutions come from these efforts to understand evolving sovereignty requirements. We’ve heard from numerous customers that they would prefer to work with local partners in their transformation journey, and that’s why we have established partnerships including T-Systems in Germany, S3NS in France, Minsait in Spain, and Telecom Italia in Italy. Sovereign Controls by T-Systems is now generally available, and Local Controls by S3NS, the Thales-Google partnership, is now available in Preview. You can expect more region and market announcements in the coming months. Google Cloud Sovereign SolutionsOur Sovereign Solutions are designed to support data, operational and software sovereignty requirements, increasing customer control and transparency for sensitive data moving to the cloud. For example, Sovereign Solutions can help support compliance with European regulations such as GDPR and legal rulings such as Schrems II.Google Cloud Sovereign Solutions comprise Sovereign Controls, which can help organizations more easily manage vital data sovereignty goals, as well as Supervised Cloud and Hosted Cloud options to help address operational and software sovereignty concerns.The range of Google Cloud Sovereign SolutionsThe market is already making valuable use of our offerings: In September, employee communication platform Haiilo said it would rely on the Sovereign Cloud from T-Systems and Google in the future.Oliver Queck, vice president at T-Systems International, said that Sovereign Solutions can help drive digital transformation. “T-Systems and Google Cloud are building and delivering sovereign cloud services for European enterprises from the public and business sectors. Our common goal: support all organizations in migrating their workloads to the cloud – through more innovation, flexibility, performance, and data security.”Let’s look at each of the product offerings: Sovereign ControlsSovereign Controls for Google CloudToday, customers can meet many data sovereignty requirements using Google Cloud controls, delivered directly by Google Cloud through Assured Workloads for EU or through our local partners. These Sovereign Controls can help organizations:Create and maintain workloads with data residency controls in Europe for core customer content at rest, with processes that help limit personnel access to core customer content to EU persons located in the EU;Maintain comprehensive visibility and control over administrative access to the data and workloads;Encrypt data with keys that they (or someone appointed by them) control and manage outside of Google’s infrastructure through our Cloud External Key Manager.At Google Cloud we firmly believe that the control of encryption keys is the strongest and most effective technical measure against extraterritorial requests for data that can be offered to cloud customers today. To achieve sufficient control, keys must be kept outside of the cloud provider infrastructure and coupled to a strong key access justification mechanism. Queck added that Sovereign Controls can help balance data management and control requirements with the drive to innovate. “With Sovereign Controls by T-Systems, we have developed a cloud solution that allows you to securely host your sensitive data and implement supplementary data protection measures that can help meet the requirements of European data protection authorities without losing on scalability or elasticity. In other words, you retain full control over your data, software, and operations, and still benefit from all the advantages of the Google Cloud – especially the innovation power,” he said.Sovereign Controls for Google WorkspaceCustomers’ sovereignty requirements also extend to the digital tools they use to collaborate and communicate. We recently announced Sovereign Controls for Google Workspace, which will provide digital sovereignty capabilities for organizations to control, limit, and monitor transfers of data to and from the EU starting at the end of 2022, with additional capabilities delivered throughout 2023. This commitment builds on existing Client-side encryption,  Data regions, and Access Controls capabilities in Workspace.Supervised CloudOur forthcoming Supervised Cloud offerings will be managed and operated by partners to support data sovereignty and operational sovereignty needs for specialized and highly sensitive data. We are in the process of designing and building these offerings, aligned with local regulations in France, as well as strong customer needs in Germany, with our respective partners S3NS and T-Systems. Cyprien Falque, managing director of S3NS, a Thales and Google Cloud partnership, spoke about plans for their forthcoming solution and ways for customers to begin their journey to the cloud now: “S3NS’ mission is to help public and private organizations in France benefit from the power of Google Cloud while protecting their sensitive data in compliance with the criteria of the French ‘Trusted Cloud’. Our Local Controls offering is a first step and a first milestone this year, before a future solution in compliance with the French ‘Trusted Cloud’ criteria, which we are working on in parallel. Our objective is to be among the first to make such an offering available for certification based on hyperscale cloud technology,” Falque said.Hosted CloudFinally, there are some customers and workloads that have a strict need to support disconnected operations. To help meet these software sovereignty requirements, we will offer Hosted Cloud services, which are part of Google Cloud’s Distributed Cloud offerings. Google Distributed Cloud Hosted does not require connectivity to Google Cloud at any time to manage infrastructure, services, APIs, or tooling.LuxConnect is a Luxembourg-based IT provider whose mission is to strengthen the country’s IT infrastructure and to increase international Internet connectivity in order to drive progress and innovation. LuxConnect CEO Paul Konsbruck said that he is looking forward to the availability of Sovereign Cloud solutions that can complement existing IT services, including Hosted Cloud.“Digital sovereignty is becoming more and more important to us and to our customers across Europe as we work to support their digital transformation initiatives. The ability to keep data within strict boundaries and maintain local operations further enable efforts in Luxembourg to serve for example as “data embassies” – protecting vital data and services that are essential to the smooth running of a country on their behalf, thereby reducing the potential impact of cyberattacks,” he said. “We are closely following the efforts of Google Cloud to develop and offer Hosted Cloud solutions that can complement our data center, connectivity, and HPC offerings.”Expanding the Sovereign Solutions ISV ecosystemIt’s also clear from our discussions with Cloud customers and partners that the ability to meet sovereignty requirements must include support for the applications they use to power their businesses and drive innovation. To this end, today we are thrilled to announce that more than 20 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) from Europe and around the world have joined the new Google Cloud Ready – Sovereign Solutions program with the intent of bringing their products to Google Cloud Sovereign Solution environments. These partners include Aiven, Broadcom (Symantec), Cloud Software Group (Citrix), Climate Engine, Commvault, Confluent, Datadog, DataIKU, Dell Technologies, Elastic, Fortinet, Gitlab, Iron Mountain, LumApps, MongoDB, NetApp, OpenText, Palo Alto Networks, Pega Systems, Siemens, SUSE, Thales, Thought Machine, Veeam, and VMware. Learn moreWe’ll continue to listen to our customers and key stakeholders across Europe who are setting policy and helping shape requirements for customer control of data. Our goal is to make Google Cloud the best possible place for sustainable, digital transformation for European organizations on their terms — but also for others around the world, and there is much more to come.Related ArticleStrengthening our European data sovereignty offerings with Assured Workloads for EUAssured Workloads for EU on Google Cloud is now generally available to help address customer requirements for data residency and data sov…Read Article
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Developers – Build, learn, and grow your career faster with Google Cloud

To help developers build faster, learn faster and grow their career faster with Google Cloud, we are excited to announce three developer initiatives today: a new Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription with expanded developer benefits; no-cost #GoogleClout challenges; and the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge happening during Google Cloud Next, in partnership with the Drone Racing League (DRL). Training made easy, wherever you areA recent survey noted that the number of individuals learning to code online increased from 60% in 2020 to 70% in 2021. Last year, we were the first cloud provider to launch a learning subscription to help address the developer skills shortage. We committed to equipping 40 million people with cloud skills with Google Cloud Skills Boost, which provides learners with online courses, skills development, and certifications. Google Cloud Skills Boost is available for learners globally, and offers training resources in languages including Arabic, Bahasa, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. With Google Cloud Skills Boost, our goal is to make it easier to get started and grow their cloud skills.Introducing the new Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscriptionTo build on this work, today, we’re enhancing the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription by introducing Innovators Plus – a new suite of developer benefits, available under the existing $299/year subscription*. Built for developers who are looking to accelerate their professional skills and business growth, this package provides extensive training and certification benefits including live learning events, Google Cloud credits, and certification exam vouchers. Other leading cloud providers limit offers to learning content and labs, or have no developer-targeted offering at all. Through this new Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription, developers get the added access, rewards and recognition they’ve been asking for as they level-up their cloud skills. The expanded Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription with Innovators Plus offers a comprehensive range of benefits, including:Access to 700+ hands-on labs, skill badges, and courses$500 Google Cloud creditsA Google Cloud certification exam voucherBonus $500 Google Cloud credits after the first certification earned each yearLive learning events led by Google Cloud expertsQuarterly technical briefings hosted by Google Cloud executivesNew Google Cloud learning challenges to build skills In addition to the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription, we’ve introduced other new learning challenges to make learning about Google Cloud technologies fun and rewarding. Take your cloud skills to new heights with the Google Cloud Fly Cup ChallengeWe recently announced the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge, created in partnership with The Drone Racing League (DRL) to celebrate the new era of tech-driven sports. Using DRL race data and Google Cloud analytics tools like BigQuery and Cloud SQL, developers of any skill level will be able to predict race outcomes and provide tips to DRL pilots to help enhance their season performance. Participants will compete for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the season finale of the DRL World Championship Race and be crowned the champion on stage. Register here to join the race to become the DRL champion today.Flex your #GoogleClout and win the hottest book in cloudJust in time for Next, developers can demonstrate their cloud knowledge against participants worldwide in new #GoogleClout challenges — no-cost, 20-minute micro-competitions.Here’s how it works:Work on the six new challenges in the #GoogleClout game by October 13(Optional) Share your scores on social media using the #GoogleClout hashtagIf you complete all six challenges, you’ll receive a special badge on your Developer Profile, plus an electronic copy of Priyanka Vergadia’s bestselling book, “Visualizing Google Cloud”.Grow your career faster with Google CloudThe demand for qualified experts is huge. But what exactly does that mean for you? In Skillsoft’s 2022 list of the top 15 highest paying IT certifications,Google Cloud certifications rank among the top for the 4th year in a row. By building your technical expertise on Google Cloud, you can grow your skills and your career faster.Ready to get started?Visit Google Cloud Skills Boost to start your annual subscription and unlock Innovators Plus benefits.Register for Next and discover more about the Google Cloud Fly Cup and #GoogleClout challenges in the Developer Zone.* Subject to eligibility limitations. Innovators Plus requires you to use a Google Account and a Developer Profile. For customers in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland), Innovators Plus is restricted to business or professional use.Related ArticleRead Article
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