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GCP – Protecting your Kubernetes deployments with Policy Controller
In November, the Kubernetes project disclosed a vulnerability which every Kuberenetes administrator or adopter should be aware of. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2020-8554, stems from default permissions allowing users to create objects that could act as a “Man in the Middle” and therefore potentially intercept sensitive data. If you are using a Google Cloud managed […]

GCP – Introducing a new dashboard creation experience in Cloud Monitoring
Having good observability is vital to the health of your cloud infrastructure and applications, and a key element to using that information effectively is being able to create dashboards with relevant metrics. Today we are announcing a new dashboard creation experience from Cloud Monitoring that allows you to generate a greater variety of visualization types, […]

GCP – Introducing Google Cloud Sentiment Analysis: A Foundation for a Successful COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy
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 […]

Azure – Support for reference data up to 5GB and new improvements in Azure Stream Analytics now generally available
The latest update of Azure Stream Analytics, now deployed in every supported region, provides support for larger reference data ( up to 5 GB), and add support for composite keys for blob output partitioning. Read More for the details.

GCP – Continuing our long-standing commitment to Kubernetes and CNCF
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 […]

GCP – Get ready to migrate your SAP, Windows and VMware workloads in 2021
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 […]

GCP – Extensions for connectivity and new data types now available in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
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 […]

GCP – Introducing a single command to build and deploy to Cloud Run
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 […]

GCP – Most popular public datasets to enrich your BigQuery analyses
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 […]
GCP – Introducing the new Google Maps Platform Public Status Dashboard
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 […]