Updates coming for Authorized Networks and Cloud Run/Functions on GKE
Google recently received helpful information through the Vulnerability Rewards Program for Authorized Networks and Cloud Run/Functions on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Based on that information, Google updated their product documentation and prioritized a plan to make engineering changes to GKE to restrict access to only GKE-related services. Those changes…
Understanding Google Cloud’s VMware Engine Migration Process and Performance
Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) allows a user to deploy a managed VMware environment within an Enterprise Cloud Solution. Google have put together a new white paper, “Google Cloud VMware Engine Performance Migration & Benchmarks,” to help customers better understand the architecture, its performance, and the…
Building Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery for Autonomous Vehicles on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Cruise, a company that produced self-driving cars founded in 2013 at San Francisco. Here’s their journey on how they developing the fully autonomous vehicles. San Francisco’s roads are a notoriously tough place for people to drive. Narrow streets, busy…
Equifax data fabric uses Google Cloud to spin faster innovation
Editor’s note: Here, we look at how Equifax used Google Cloud’s Bigtable as a foundational tool to reinvent themselves through technology. Identifying stolen identities, evaluating credit scores, verifying employment and income for processing credit requests requires data—truckloads of data—galaxies of data! But it’s not enough…
How a robotics startup switched clouds and reduced its Kubernetes ops costs with GKE Autopilot
Don’t look now, but Brain Corp operates over 20,000 of its robots in factories, supermarkets, schools and warehouses, taking on time-consuming assignments like cleaning floors, taking inventory, restocking shelves, etc. And BrainOS®, the AI software platform that powers these autonomous mobile robots, doesn’t just run in the…
How Google Cloud monitors its Quality Management System
As a provider of software and services for global enterprises, Google Cloud understands that the quality and security of products is instrumental in maintaining trust among our customers. Google are committed to providing products and services that help the customers meet their quality management objectives,…
Understanding Gmail’s spam filters
Every day, Gmail’s filtering capabilities and advanced security protections help billions of people stay safe and get things done more efficiently. Google have built a strong foundation, and over time, they’ve continued to improve their systems—blocking more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, and malware from ever…
Eliminate hotspots in Cloud Bigtable
Google have recently improved Cloud Bigtable’s observability by allowing customers to monitor and observe hot tablets. They can now provide customers access to real-time hot tablets data through the Cloud Bigtable Admin API and gcloud command-line tool. Through this post, Google will present how hot…
Assembling and managing distributed applications using Google Cloud Networking solutions
In the cloud era, modern applications are assembled from services running across different environments. The benefit of this approach is that organizations can choose which services to use that best serve their needs when building applications. But assembling applications from disparate component services also brings…
Analyze Looker-modeled data through Google Sheets
At Google Cloud, they believe that democratizing access to fresh, consistent, enterprise data is the key to driving digital and cultural transformation. This means empowering everyone to leverage rich, governed data sets and harness the power of data — without learning new tools or building…
Introducing GKE cost estimator, built right into the Google Cloud console
Have you ever wondered what it will cost to run a particular Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster? How various configurations and feature choices will affect your costs? What the potential of autoscaling might be on your bill? If you’ve ever tried to estimate this yourself, you…
Announcing PSP’s cryptographic hardware offload at scale is now open source
Almost a decade ago, Google started encrypting traffic between our data centers to help protect user privacy. Since then, they gradually rolled out changes to encrypt almost all data in transit. Their approach is described in our Encryption in Transit whitepaper. While this effort provided invaluable…