In April, we announced the general availability of Google Cloud’s OS patch management service to protect your running VMs against defects and vulnerabilities. This service works on Compute Engine and across Windows and Linux OS environments. In this blog, we share how to orchestrate your patch deployment using pre-patch and post-patch scripts.What are pre-patch and […]

Google Cloud Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service. Data Catalog helps your organization quickly discover, understand, and manage all your data from one simple interface, letting you gain valuable business insights out of your data investments. One of Data Catalog’s core concepts, called tag templates, helps you organize complex metadata […]

Metrics help you understand how your business and applications are performing. Longer metric retention enables quarter-over-quarter or year-over-year analysis and reporting, forecasting seasonal trends, retention for compliance, and much more. We recently announced the general availability (GA) of extended metric retention forcustom andPrometheus metrics in Cloud Monitoring, increasing retention from 6 weeks to 24 months. […]

Today, we’re announcing that Cloud SQL, our fully managed database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server, now supports MySQL 8. This means you get access to a variety of powerful new features—such as instant DDL statements (e.g. ADD COLUMN), atomic DDL, privilege collection using roles, window functions, and extended JSON syntax – to help […]