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GCP – Managing consent in Embedded Finance
When banks and other financial institutions make their products available via non-banks, we call that Embedded Finance. Think, for example, of a retailer offering financing for people buying goods; or a budgeting app gathering bank transactions to help you categorize and understand your spending patterns. The finance – the money management – has been embedded […]
GCP – Expanding support for early-stage startups on Google Cloud
Startups are uniquely adept at solving difficult challenges, and Google is committed to partnering with these organizations and delivering technology to help them do so as they start, build, and grow. Over the past year, we’ve deepened our focus on helping startups scale and thrive in the cloud, including launching new resources and mentorship programs, […]
GCP – Google Cloud launches new dedicated Digital Assets Team
Blockchain technology is yielding tremendous innovation and value creation for consumers and businesses around the world. As the technology becomes more mainstream, companies need scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure on which to grow their businesses and support their networks. We believe Google Cloud can play an important role in this evolution. Building on our existing […]
GCP – Cloud Bigtable launches Autoscaling plus new features for optimizing costs and improved manageability
Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large operational and analytical workloads used by leading businesses across industries, such as The Home Depot, Equifax, and Twitter. Bigtable has more than 10 Exabytes of data under management and processes more than 5 billion requests per second at peak. Today, we’re announcing the […]
GCP – Bigtable Autoscaling: Deep dive and cost saving analysis
Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed service that can swiftly scale to meet performance and storage demands with the click of a button. If you’re currently using Bigtable, you might configure your cluster sizes to perform for peak throughput or programmatically scale to match your workload. Bigtable now supports autoscaling for improved manageability, and in […]
GCP – Google Tau VMs deliver over 40% price-performance advantage to customers
In November 2021, we announced the general availability of Tau VMs. Since then, Google Cloud’s Tau VMs with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) have unlocked value for many customers who are now using Tau VMs for their production workloads, such as: Ascend, who achieved over 125% higher performance; Nylas, who gained over 40% higher price-performance; and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. R5b instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and offer up to 60 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and 260,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS), enabling customers to lift and shift memory intensive applications to AWS. R5b instances provide 3x higher EBS-Optimized […]
AWS – Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing Quick Builder, a new low-code tool for you to build location-based experiences
Here at Google Maps Platform, we are embracing low-code development. For more than 15 years, we’ve helped customers like Argos, Dunzo, and Redfin drive success by building custom location-based solutions from scratch. While this approach allows for deep customization, we recognize that not all of our customers have the resources or bandwidth to complete these […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are available. Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all core turbo frequency of up to 4.5 GHz, the fastest in the cloud. X2iezn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the […]