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GCP – Launching a landmark partnership to support AI startups with Y Combinator
More than half of the world’s generative AI startups are building on Google Cloud — using a wide choice of leading models, AI-optimized infrastructure, GPUs and TPUs, Vertex AI, and more to build the next generation of exciting AI applications, models, and tooling. These customers range from very early-stage businesses to the largest of AI […]
GCP – Now GA: Compute Engine C3 bare-metal and X4 instances
Enterprise workloads present unique challenges when migrating to a public cloud. Whether it’s a 32TB in-memory database, a private cloud built on a commercial hypervisor, or an application that can’t run in a virtual machine, these business-critical workloads are a high-priority for technology leaders to migrate to the cloud. To help ease and accelerate migrating […]
GCP – AI capabilities and controls to power up your workday with Chrome Enterprise
Tired of endless tabs, repetitive tasks and constantly trying to find that document you were in just a few days ago? Everyone can relate to these common workplace frustrations. But good news – Chrome Enterprise’s AI-powered shortcuts will help users streamline their workflows and give IT teams the controls they need. Chrome Enterprise’s vision for […]
AWS – Announcing fine-grained access control via AWS Lake Formation with EMR Serverless
We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained data access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR Serverless. This enables you to enforce full FGAC (database, table, column, row and cell-level) policies defined in Lake Formation to take effect for your data lake tables from your EMR Serverless […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now enables agents to view pre-approved windows when scheduling time off
Amazon Connect now enables agents to view pre-approved time off windows for their scheduling group (group allowance), making it easier for agents to identify available options when requesting time off. For example, when creating a time off request for 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., an agent can now see that while there is available group […]
GCP – Understanding new Gemini model inference, tuning, grounding and safety settings in BigQuery
The proliferation of digital devices and platforms such as social media, mobile devices, and IoT sensors has led to an exponential growth in unstructured data such as images, audio files, videos, and documents. To help organizations unlock valuable insights from your data, BigQuery, Google’s AI-ready cloud data platform, is integrated with Vertex AI, Google’s fully-managed […]
GCP – Collect OTLP data from GKE apps with new curated OpenTelemetry ingestion pipeline
OpenTelemetry is an open-source, vendor-agnostic observability standard for logs, metrics, and traces that’s quickly growing as a format for application monitoring, thanks to its collection of libraries, agents, compatible backends, and community support. As more customers told us they wanted to adopt the OpenTelemetry standard for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we provided documentation on instrumenting […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Why water security can’t wait
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2024. Today, guest columnist Sandra Joyce discusses the complex response needed to secure drinking water systems from cybersecurity risks. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d […]
AWS – AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernation
Starting today, customers can hibernate their EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton processors. Hibernation helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. When customers hibernate an instance, EC2 signals the operating system to perform hibernation (suspend-to-disk). This process saves the contents of the […]
GCP – Designing Generative AI Solutions: Key Lessons Learned
Generative AI is transforming the way we interact with technology. At Google Cloud, our Applied AI Engineering team has shaped the design and development of generative AI solutions for Generative AI for Marketing, Customer Experience Modernization, and Open Data QnA (NL2SQL), among others. Throughout this process, we’ve gained valuable insights that we believe can help […]