Abstract Almost two decades into the era of cloud transformation, countless companies are adopting cloud-based systems. Prior to making the switch, most conduct a thorough business case analysis, identifying potential savings and benefits. To manage cloud costs, many organizations are establishing FinOps practice across their teams. However, some time into the journey, questions arise: “Did […]

Tl;dr: Active Assistcan now help you reduce the risk of cloud infrastructure misconfigurations by intelligently flagging common risky changes to your most important resources and providing recommendations to prevent and mitigate issues. Initially, Active Assist can safeguard against high-risk deletions of projects, service accounts, and changes to IAM policies. This feature is available to all […]

Modern marketers know that in the digital ad marketplace, speed is the key to maximizing the return on investment on your ad spend. The challenge is that most advertisers rely on data that is days, weeks, or even months old — and in an environment that moves as quickly as the time to return a […]

A number of Google services and Cloud customers have been targeted with a novel HTTP/2-based DDoS attack which peaked in August. These attacks were significantly larger than any previously-reported Layer 7 attacks, with the largest attack surpassing 398 million requests per second. The attacks were largely stopped at the edge of our network by Google’s […]

Over the last few years, Google’s DDoS Response Team has observed the trend that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasing exponentially in size. Last year, we blocked the largest DDoS attack recorded at the time. This August, we stopped an even larger DDoS attack — 7½ times larger — that also used new techniques to […]