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Snap partners with Google Cloud to upskill teams around the globe

Snap inc., the developer of the Snapchat platform, has become a global leader in the social media industry. Snap runs its business on Google Cloud, and relies on Premium Support to optimize its cloud business imperatives. Snap sought new ways to extract business value from their cloud data, so turned…

Three new Specializations help partners digitally transform customers

Two of our most enduring commitments to partners include our mission to provide you with the support, tools, and resources you need to grow and drive customer delivery excellence, and to ensure Google Cloud partners stand apart as deeply skilled technology pace setters. This includes working with partners to stay…

What would you build with $500 in Google Cloud credits included with Innovators Plus?

Imagine you had $500 in Google Cloud credits to build whatever you want. That’s what you get when you start an Innovators Plus subscription, along with a range of other benefits including: access to the entire catalog of on-demand training on Google Cloud Skills Boost, a certification exam voucher, invite-only…

Building your own private knowledge graph on Google Cloud

A Knowledge Graph ingests data from multiple sources, extracts entities (e.g., people, organizations, places, or things), and establishes relationships among the entities (e.g., owner of, related to) with the help of common attributes such as surnames, addresses, and IDs.Entities form the nodes in the graph and the relationships are the…

Introducing new cloud services and pricing for ultimate flexibility

As the saying goes, “it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” Some organizations find it challenging to predict what cloud resources they’ll need in months or years ahead. Every organization is on its own unique cloud journey. To help, we’re developing new ways for customers to consume and…

Grow and scale your startup with Google Cloud

At Google Cloud, we understand how important it is for startups to get holistic technical support so that you can build and scale your businesses to the next level. The Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups Series helps you do this and more with its Start, Build and Grow multi-series.In…

Reducing the storage impact of Point-in-Time Recovery

Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) is a critical capability for enterprise applications.  It allows database administrators to recover from accidental data deletion by restoring their production databases to a time before the incident.  Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL launched support for PITR in July 2020, allowing you to recover from disasters like data corruption…

Extending reality: Immersive Stream for XR is now Generally Available

Last year at Google I/O, we announced the preview of Immersive Stream for XR, which leverages Google Cloud GPUs to host, render, and stream high-quality photorealistic experiences to millions of mobile devices around the world. Today, we are excited to announce that the service is now generally available for Google…

Transform SQL into SQLX for Dataform

IntroductionDeveloping in SQL poses significant problems when compared to other languages and frameworks.  It's not easy to reuse statements across different scripts, there's no way to write tests to ensure data consistency, and dependency management requires external software solutions.  Developers will typically write thousands of lines of SQL to ensure…

How to migrate Cloud Storage data from multi-region to regional

There are many considerations to take into account when choosing the location type of your Cloud Storage bucket. However, as business needs change, you may find that regional storage offers lower cost and/or better performance than multi-region or dual-region storage. By design, once your data is already stored in a…