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GCP – Announcing Advanced Markers: easily create highly customized, faster performance markers
For many of you, putting a marker on a map was your first experience using Google Maps Platform. And often, that was your first step in using Google’s knowledge of the real world to build immersive and helpful mapping experiences for your users in every corner of the globe. No matter what the use case, […]

GCP – The Home Depot derived key business insights by upskilling on BigQuery
The Home Depot (THD) is the world’s largest home-improvement retailer and leverages a data-driven approach to meet growing customer demand. Focusing on building a world-class interconnected retail experience to enable their customers to accomplish more required a two-fold solution – they needed to upskill their IT staff to equip them to extract the most from […]

GCP – 100,000 new SUVs booked in 30 minutes: How Mahindra built its online order system
Almost 70 years ago, starting in 1954, the Mahindra Group began assembling the Indian version of the Willys CJ3. Willys were arguably the first SUV in any country, and that vehicle would lay the groundwork for our Automotive Division’s continued leadership in the space, up to our iconic and best-selling Scorpio models. When it came […]

GCP – Tell us about your Cloud Architecture dreams
Whether you are new to Google Cloud or an existing customer running thousands of workloads, one of the most common questions we get is, “How would Google architect and design my environment?” The answer to this question would truly be a dream come true, right? Just to set expectations, we won’t answer that here. This […]

GCP – Moving to Log Analytics for BigQuery export users
If you’ve already centralized your log analysis on BigQuery as your single pane of glass for logs & events…congratulations! You’re already benefiting from BigQuery’s: Petabyte-scale cost-effective analytics, Analyzing heterogeneous data across multi-cloud & hybrid environments, Running on fully-managed serverless data warehouse with enterprise security features, Democratizing analytics for everyone using standard familiar SQL with extensions. […]

GCP – IDC Report: Driving business value with Google Workspace
At Google Workspace, we believe flexible, modern tools that put people at the center of the experience are critical to helping employees and teams innovate and get things done. We recently commissioned IDC to interview eight of our largest global customers and complete an in-depth analysis to better understand the business value they’re generating from […]

GCP – How our commitment to open source unlocks AI and ML innovation
At Google, we believe anyone should be able to quickly and easily turn their artificial intelligence (AI) idea into reality. Open source software (OSS) has become increasingly important to this goal, heavily influencing the pace of innovation in AI and machine learning (ML) ecosystems. Over the last two decades, ML has transformed Google services including […]

GCP – Querying Firestore in the Cloud Console
Power up your Firestore queries in the console: we’re excited to announce the launch of the new query builder, adding several major enhancements to the experience. You can now visually construct queries using all the power of the Firestore SDK—query collections or collection groups using multiple WHERE clauses, equalities, and comparison operators. Query results are […]

GCP – Google Cloud to power AppLovin’s next phase of growth with leading cloud infrastructure and services
Innovative companies are using cloud technology to transform the way they build their products and services, attract new customers and deliver products at scale. This ultimately will grow their market position. The ability to build on Google Cloud is creating entirely new opportunities for innovation, and today I’m excited to highlight one such customer, AppLovin, […]
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer now reviews your AWS CloudTrail history to identify actions used across 140 AWS services and generates fine-grained policies
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer policy generation has expanded support to identify actions used from over 140 services to help developers create fine-grained policies based on their AWS CloudTrail access activity. New additions include actions from services such as AWS CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Queue Service. When developers request a […]