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GCP – Shared fate: Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification
To our customers: At Google Cloud, we put your interests first. This means that when you choose to work with us, we become partners on a journey of shared innovation, shared support, and shared fate. We are committed to helping you evolve as technology advances, drawing on our depth of experience to ensure you can […]
GCP – Build AI/ML and generative AI applications in Python with BigQuery DataFrames
Trends in the data space such as generative AI, distributed storage systems, unstructured data formats, MLOps, and the sheer size of datasets are making it necessary to expand beyond the SQL language to truly analyze and understand your data. To provide users with more flexibility of coding languages, we announced BigQuery DataFrames at Next ‘23. […]
GCP – reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the importance of GDPR compliance
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets out specific requirements for businesses and organisations who are established in Europe or who serve users in Europe. It regulates how businesses can collect, use, and store personal data. At Google Cloud, we prioritise the security and privacy of your data, and we want you, as a reCAPTCHA […]
GCP – How Deutsche Bank manages certificates in Google Cloud at scale
Deutsche Bank has provided a wide range of financial services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, and individuals across the world since 1870. To better serve and protect our customers, part of our cloud transformation journey required software engineers to build a secure, scalable, and reliable certificate management system for cloud workloads. Deutsche Bank partnered with […]
GCP – Safeguard your VM workloads with new GCVM Protected
Do you want to migrate your VMware workloads to Google Cloud but aren’t sure how to back up and protect your VMs affordably and reliably? We recently announced GCVE Protected, a new Google Cloud offering that offers bundled pricing for both Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud’s Backup & DR Service. With GCVE Protected, […]
GCP – How Snap reduced latency by 96 percent with KeyDB database on Google Cloud
Modern applications are often highly distributed, with microservices and APIs running across many environments, including multiple clouds. This approach offers many benefits, such as resilience, scalability, and faster team velocity. However, this approach can also introduce latency concerns. In this blog, we highlight how Google Cloud Consulting (GCC) and Snap collaborated to reduce latency by […]
Azure – Breaking Change Notice: Virtual Machine Scale Set Default Orchestration Mode changing from Uniform to Flexible on PowerShell, Azure CLI
Starting November 2023, Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on PowerShell and Azure CLI will automatically default to Flexible orchestration mode. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Link Your Bank Account for SEPA direct debit payments in Germany
Link Your Bank Account allows you to add a bank account immediately after becoming an AWS customer. New customers with a Germany billing address can now pay AWS invoices with a bank account that supports the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) standard. Prior AWS payments are no longer required to add SEPA direct debit payment […]
AWS – AWS announces Search Pipelines for OpenSearch
Search Pipelines, a new feature in OpenSearch 2.9, make it easy to build query and result processing pipelines. This lets you build search query and result processing as a composition of modular processing steps without complicating your application software. Read More for the details.
Azure – Private Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario. Read More for the details.