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GCP – Create PromQL alerts in Cloud Monitoring now in Public Preview
Last year, we introduced Managed Service for Prometheus so that you can scale your Prometheus environment more easily that hosting it yourself. As part of that announcement, we also added support for Prometheus’ popular PromQL query language in Cloud Monitoring. Since then, we’ve heard from experienced and new Prometheus users that they’d like to manage […]

GCP – Memorystore adds version support for Redis 7.0
Memorystore is a fully managed caching service that supports the open-source in-memory databases Redis and Memcached. Memorystore makes it easy for applications built on Google Cloud to leverage in-memory data stores based on open-source Redis and Memcached. With a single click, Memorystore for Redis offers a highly available, zonally redundant Redis instance with automatic fast […]

GCP – Reduce Airflow DAG parse times in Cloud Composer
This comprehensive blog presents various approaches for monitoring, troubleshooting, and minimizing DAG parse times, leading to notable performance improvements in Cloud Composer / Airflow: Increase environment scalability by efficiently handling larger workloads and accommodating more DAGs. Improve environment stability by limiting the chance of task overlaps and resource contention. Enhance productivity and overall efficiency for […]

GCP – BigQuery now supports manifest files for querying open table formats
In this blog we will give you an overview of the manifest support for BigQuery and also explain how it enables querying open table formats like Apache Hudi and Delta Lake in BigQuery. Open table formats rely on embedded metadata to provide transactionally consistent DML and time travel features. They keep different versions of the […]

GCP – Future-proofing your SAP HANA deployment on Google Cloud with SUSE for scale-out high availability
Google Cloud is delighted to introduce the latest offering in the area of SAP HANA Scale-out high availability deployment, a new automated deployment guide powered byTerraform Google Cloud Platform Provider. Scaling out refers to the process of combining multiple independent Compute Engine instances to create a unified SAP system. This approach is primarily adopted to […]

GCP – Chronicle CyberShield – Google Cloud’s Approach to Strengthen Nation-wide Cyber Defense
One of the primary functions of any government is to protect its citizens, institutions, infrastructure and way of life. With the rise of the global Internet, the world is more connected and traditional borders do not exist, meaning those same citizens, institutions, infrastructure, and way of life are at greater risk of malicious activity online. […]

GCP – CyberShield: helping governments stand united against cyber attacks
At the Cyber Week conference in June, we were excited to announce our strategic partnership with the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) to modernize security operations under the wider scope of Israel’s own Cyber Dome mission. Our teams worked together to leverage Google Cloud’s Chronicle Security Operations platform, which includes automation, analytics, threat intelligence, and […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 5.7.43 and 8.0.34
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.43 and 8.0.34. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, now available in US West (Oregon) region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the US West (Oregon) region. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless deployments
We are pleased to announce Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless deployments. OpenSearch Serverless is the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easier for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. Terraform enables OpenSearch Serverless deployments as infrastructure as code(IaC). Using Terraform for deployments, you […]