Delta Lake is an open-source optimized storage layer that provides a foundation for tables in lake houses and brings reliability and performance improvements to existing data lakes. It sits on top of your data lake storage (like cloud object stores) and provides a performant and scalable metadata layer on top of data stored in the […]

Creating innovative AI-powered solutions for use cases such as product recommendations and chatbots often requires vector similarity search, or vector search for short. At Google Cloud Next ‘24, we announced the Firestore vector search in preview, using exact K-nearest neighbor (KNN) search. Developers can now perform vector search on transactional Firestore data without the hassle […]

With more than a decade of experience building AI and machine learning models, Google Cloud understands both the benefits and challenges that await those looking to take advantage of these new technologies. Organizations around the world are now looking to AI solutions to solve some of their thornier problems, and to do so they need […]

At Google Cloud Next ‘23, we announced support in Database Migration Service (DMS) for Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations to make them smooth, intuitive and efficient. We also introduced integrated code and schema conversions to reduce friction in the most time-consuming phases of the migration. This week at Google Cloud Next ‘24, we unveiled Gemini for Google Cloud, […]

Cloud SQL for SQL Server is a fully managed relational database that offers native SQL Server features along with several Google Cloud innovations, and allows migrating databases while retaining their existing versions or upgrading to newer ones. But migrating SQL Server databases to the cloud can be daunting. Concerns about downtime, complexity, and security risks […]

In today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, organizations require robust network security solutions to protect their critical assets in the cloud. Google Cloud is committed to providing superior cloud-first security controls, and today at Google Cloud Next, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Google Cloud NGFW Enterprise, our next-generation cloud firewall offering.  Cloud NGFW Enterprise […]

Developers love Firestore because of how fast they can build applications and services end to end. As of today, Firestore has more than 500,000 monthly active developers, and Firestore apps power more than 1.3 billion monthly active end users using Firebase Auth. Recently, we’ve made updates to Firestore to improve developer productivity, enable developers to […]

Private connectivity is critical for organizations to secure data access and meet regulatory requirements — particularly if their applications access an operational database. Traditionally, organizations have relied on VPC Network Peering leveraging private services access, but that can be cumbersome at scale. And for more demanding environments, there’s Private Service Connect, which helps customers simplify […]

At Next ’24, we announced several FinOps innovations to help our customers inform on their cloud costs, optimize their cloud spend, and ensure no day-to-day cost surprises. Didn’t attend Next? No problem, read our summary of Google Cloud FinOps announcements here.  1. Driving cloud FinOps with game-changing billing cost data Cloud Billing cost data, specifically […]