As we approach the new year, the world awaits the promise of an end to the global pandemic. Science has never moved faster than in the race for COVID-19 vaccines, and now with several vaccine options in development, we face the next hurdle–rolling out a large-scale, rapid immunization initiative unlike anything we’ve seen before.  The […]

Investments in open-source software—like Kubernetes—return great benefits for everyone in the community. Today, we reiterated our commitment to the open-source Kubernetes community with a $3 million annual donation to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the single largest financial contribution from any company to the organization. A continuation of our initial contribution in 2018, these […]

This year, we’ve witnessed tremendous change not only to our daily lives, but also how businesses work. For us, part of that meant helping businesses migrate and modernize their most important enterprise workloads—think SAP, Windows, and VMware—to Google Cloud, helping them achieve scale, flexibility and cost savings. Let’s take a quick look back on the […]

Open source database PostgreSQL is designed to be easily extensible through its support of extensions. When an extension is loaded into a database, it can function just like features that are built-in. This adds additional functionality to your PostgreSQL instances, allowing you to use enhanced features in your database on top of the existing PostgreSQL […]

Our vision for Cloud Run is simple: enable developers to run their source code on a fully managed autoscaling infrastructure with a domain name secured with HTTPS. But until now, deploying to Cloud Run required at least two separate steps:  Packaging your code into a container image  Deploying this container image to Cloud Run  Although […]

From rice genomes to historical hurricane data, Google Cloud Public Datasets offer a world of exploration and insight. The more than 20 PB across 200+ datasets in our Public Dataset Program helps you explore big data and data analytics without a lot of cost, setup, or overhead. You can explore up to 1 TB per […]

The Google Maps Platform team strives to provide the highest level of service possible to our users. Still, from time to time, unexpected service disruptions do occur. When your team experiences an outage or other technical challenge, one of the first evaluations they need to make is whether the issue is with a third-party service […]

It’s been a historic year for the retail industry. The pandemic fast-tracked digital trends that the industry had been pondering over the previous decade, separating retail leaders and laggards. What were once nice-to-have technological differentiators became necessities when the pandemic hit.  As retailers scrambled to digitize, consumers took to online shopping unlike ever before. Brands […]

This past year will be remembered as one of the most turbulent years in retail history. Retailers and brands across the globe have undergone tremendous pressure to quickly transform their business and adapt to the challenges created by Covid-19. As retailers closed store doors and limited the amount of in-store traffic to keep employees and […]