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The Dunant subsea cable

The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.

Cloud Video Intelligence API

Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language

Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years

When I joined Google full-time to run Cloud in December 2015, I told my family and friends that it would be for two years. Now, after an unbelievably stimulating and productive three years, it’s time to turn to the passions I’ve long had around mentoring and education.

Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage

Google’s policy is to store your passwords with cryptographic hashes that mask those passwords to ensure their security. However, we recently notified a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers that some passwords were stored in our encrypted internal systems unhashed. This is a G Suite issue that affects business…

BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users

New BigQuery pricing editions and autoscaling let you choose the right price-performance for your workloads, and pay for only what you use.

Google Imagen 2

Today, we’re sharing a significant upgrade to Google Cloud’s image-generation capabilities with Imagen 2 , our most advanced text-to-image technology, which is now generally available for Vertex AI customers on the allowlist (i.e., approved for access).

Colossus for Rapid Storage

Colossus’s performance comes from its stateful protocol, which plays a pivotal role in the new Rapid Storage offering launched at Google Cloud Next '25.

New Map APIs from Google

Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more

Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP

Adding the Cloud Run button to your github source code repositories lets anyone deploy their application to Google Cloud.

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure is a component of the digital ecosystem leveraged by a wide array of bad actors.

History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google

Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack

Today we’re announcing the beta of Cloud Run, our new serverless compute platform for containerized apps with portability built-in.

New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner

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Cloud TPU VMs are generally available

Cloud TPU VMs with Ranking & Recommendation acceleration are generally available on Google Cloud. Customers will have direct access to TPU host machines.

AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud

Google is using the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor for its own workloads, and will offer VMs based on the chip to Google Cloud customers.

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance

The Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is an integrated hardware and software solution that lets you run workloads at the tactical edge.

Google Cloud’s Secrets Manager

Secret Manager is a new GCP product that securely and conveniently stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.

BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A

Anthos support for multi-cloud is generally available

Anthos for AWS is now GA, and can manage legacy workloads

Confidential VMs

Google Cloud will now offer the ability to encrypt data in use, while it’s being processed in a Google data center

Google's Subsea Fiber Optics

Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic , and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message…

DeepBreath: Preventing angry emails with machine learning

Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine

VMware Engine is a fully managed offering that lets enterprises run existing virtual machines on Google Cloud infrastructure.

Trillium TPU Is GA

Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is now GA, delivering enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness for AI workloads.

How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops

Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes

How Google prepares for and protects against the largest volumetric DDoS attacks.

Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13

Fully managed Cloud SQL cloud database service now supports PostgreSQL 13.

Cloud TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer

The new TPU v5p is a core element of AI Hypercomputer, which is tuned, managed, and orchestrated specifically for gen AI training and serving.

Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

In-memory workloads continue to be the backbone of innovative data management use cases, but as demand increases, so does the need for even larger memory capacity. In July, we announced a partnership with Intel and SAP to offer GCP virtual machines supporting Intel® Optane DC™ persistent memory for SAP workloads. This…