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GCP – Test your skills in the Google Maps Platform Hackathon
Calling developers, innovators, data scientists, designers, educators, and enthusiasts – build and showcase your idea using Google Maps Platform. The challenge for this hackathon is simple: build or expand something you’re passionate about and create a unique experience using Google Maps Platform. The hackathon will accept submissions until November 14 on Devpost, and there will […]

GCP – Migrate your most demanding enterprise PostgreSQL databases to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with Database Migration Service
Earlier this year, we announced the launch of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding, enterprise-grade transactional and analytical workloads. Companies across industries are already looking to AlloyDB to free themselves from traditional legacy proprietary databases and scale existing PostgreSQL workloads with no application changes. AlloyDB unlocks better scale, higher availability, and faster […]

GCP – Introducing fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner: A new way to protect your data in Spanner
As Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, strong consistency, and availability up to 99.999%, Cloud Spanner powers applications of all sizes in industries such financial services, gaming, retail, and healthcare. Today, we’re excited to announce the preview of fine-grained access control for Spanner that lets you authorize access to Spanner data […]

GCP – Latest database innovations for transforming the customer experience
We’re all accustomed to Google magic in our daily lives. When we need information like the time a store closes, the best route to a destination, help cooking a favorite recipe — we just ask Google. Google is known for providing useful information everywhere, wherever you are. But for business, it isn’t so easy to […]

GCP – Come for the sample app, stay for the main course: Cloud Spanner free trial instances
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, strong consistency, and industry leading high availability of up to 99.999%. In our ongoing quest to make Spanner more accessible to every developer and workload, we are introducing Spanner free trial instances. Now you can learn and test drive Spanner at no cost […]

GCP – Try out Cloud Spanner databases at no cost with new free trial instances
We are excited to announce Cloud Spanner free trial instances to give everyone an opportunity to try out Spanner at no cost for 90 days. Spanner is a fully managed relational database created by Google that provides the highest levels of consistency and availability at any scale. Developers love Spanner for its ease of use […]

GCP – Introducing Datastream for BigQuery
In today’s competitive environment, organizations need to quickly and easily make decisions based on real-time data. That’s why we’re announcing Datastream for BigQuery,now available in preview, featuring seamless replication from operational database sources such as AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, directly into BigQuery, Google Cloud’s serverless data warehouse. Datastream for BigQuery is Google’s […]

GCP – Golang’s database/sql driver support for Cloud Spanner is now Generally Available
Overview Go SQL Spanner Driver is an implementation of Go’s database/sql/driver interface. Add the driver to your application to enable the use of the database/sql API with Cloud Spanner. Use spanner as driverName and a valid ConnectionString as dataSourceName: code_block[StructValue([(u’code’, u’import _ “github.com/googleapis/go-sql-spanner”rnrndb, err := sql.Open(“spanner”, “projects/PROJECT/instances/INSTANCE/databases/DATABASE”)rnif err != nil {rn log.Fatal(err)rn}rnrn// Print Singers with […]

AWS – Direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack is now available
With direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack, you can now directly use the VPC private IP address of an Amazon EC2 instance on Outposts rack to communicate with your on-premises network. This new direct VPC routing mode is an alternative to the Customer-owned IP (CoIP) routing mode where Outposts rack uses a separate IP […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the instance store for temporary tablespace and the Database Smart Flash Cache for M5d and R5d instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the instance store for temporary tablespaces and the Database Smart Flash Cache (flash cache) for M5d and R5d instances. M5d and R5d instances are ideal fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage including those that need temporary storage of data for […]