How YouTube uses Bigtable to power one of the world’s largest streaming services
Cloud Bigtable is a popular and widely used key-value database available on Google Cloud. The service provides elastic and high scale, cost efficiency, excellent performance characteristics, and 99.999% availability SLA. This has led to massive adoption with customers trusting Bigtable to run a variety of their…
How to sustainably transform while minimizing risk
In this post, Google will look at the endgame: sustainable transformation into an organization that continually adapts to maximize its resilience while reducing risk. Where will my customers be with the evolving global community landscape? How can I design communities and products with sustainability in…
3 new ways to authorize users to your private workloads on Cloud Run
More and more organizations are building applications on Cloud Run, a fully managed compute platform that lets you run containerized applications on top of Google’s infrastructure. Think web applications, real-time dashboards, APIs, microservices, batch data processing, testing and monitoring tools, data science inference models, and more….
Optimizing your sustainability efforts for resilience
Optimizing energy and resource use has clear benefits, both environmental and financial, including energy cost savings, reduced carbon emissions, and lower compliance and reputational risk. The Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability program offers a growing list of validated solutions to help customers build a sustainable…
Introducing Cloud Armor WAF enhancements to help protect your web application and API service
Organizations migrating web applications and their APIs to the cloud need solutions to protect them from exploits and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Google Cloud Armor is a network security service that provides defenses against DDoS and OWASP Top 10 risks. Google are excited to introduce several new…
Making insights actionable with new Looker Studio scheduling capabilities
Scheduling reports in Looker Studio helps teams predictably and reliably distribute insights to business users in the flow of work and workflows where they spend their time. This helps to foster a data culture, making information more actionable and contextual, and enabling cross-team collaboration. Today, we are…
Cloud Ace Co-Sponsors Google Cloud Next ’23
Cloud Ace, Inc. (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Makoto Aoki, President; hereinafter “Cloud Ace”) will be a Foundation Sponsor of Google Cloud Next ’23, which will be held by Google Cloud in San Francisco, California from August 29 (Tuesday) to August 31 (Thursday), 2023. Google Cloud…
Introducing the Hive-BigQuery open-source Connector
In Google work on the Big Data solutions architecture, BigQuery, and Dataproc teams, we talk to a lot of customers who are interested in migrating all or part of their data warehouse from Apache Hive to BigQuery, but who have hit some speed bumps along the way. To…
Building AI-powered apps on Google Cloud databases using pgvector, LLMs and LangChain
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL now support the pgvector extension, bringing the power of vector search operations to PostgreSQL databases. In this step-by-step tutorial, we will show you how to add generative AI features to your own applications with just a few lines of code using pgvector,…
Announcing vector support in PostgreSQL services to power AI-enabled applications
Generative AI is ushering in a new wave of experiences that transform how we interact with information, brands, and one another. In the future, Google believe that almost every application will be AI-driven, and developers who build these applications will need the right tools to…
Manage multiple Firestore databases in a project
Google are excited to announce support for multiple Firestore databases in a Google Cloud project. You can now create multiple databases in a project to isolate customer data, microservices, or dev/test/staging environments. The multiple databases feature includes support for the following: Firestore database CRUD management:…
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with Database Migration Service is now Generally Available
In December 2022, Google announced the general availability of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that provides a powerful option for modernizing from legacy, proprietary databases and for scaling existing PostgreSQL workloads. Earlier in 2022, Google launched the preview of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL migrations using Database Migration Service (DMS). Today…