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 […]

Since the general availability (GA) of Memorystore for Redis Cluster in November 2023, we have seen rapid adoption and growth of the service. At Google Cloud Next 2024, we announced several major launches for Memorystore for Redis Cluster: Public preview of data persistence for both RDB (Redis DataBase) and AOF (Append Only File) General availability […]

At Google, we have a strong culture of dogfooding products — using and testing them internally to improve the experience for our own teams and customers. This practice is at the heart of Project LEAP, our internal effort within Google Cloud Consulting (GCC) to leverage Vertex AI in every part of our business.  This week […]

Regardless of what you’re looking to migrate or modernize, Google Cloud is committed to helping you on that journey, and we’re excited to announce a number of new updates for our portfolio of migration products and programs.  What’s new with the Rapid Migration Program (RaMP)? We understand that customers’ journeys to the cloud are driven […]

Hello from Las Vegas, where day two of Google Cloud Next ‘24 just wrapped up. What happened in Vegas today? We got hands-on with Gemini and AI agents.  At the annual developer keynote, Google Cloud Chief Evangelist Richard Seroter told the audience how Gemini in Google Cloud can not only meet you where you are […]

Today, we’re announcing a $1 billion investment in digital connectivity to Japan, which includes the expansion of the Pacific Connect initiative and delivers two new subsea cables, Proa and Taihei. In collaboration with several partners — including KDDI, ARTERIA, Citadel Pacific, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) — these cables will create […]