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How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow

Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

Customers discontinuing their use of Google Cloud can move their data without incurring any network data transfer fees.

Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use

Google to Acquire Looker

Google to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.

Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

Alongside lower costs, Cloud Spanner provides single-digit ms latencies and strong consistency across multiple availability zones in the same region.

U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace

Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.

Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

The Cloud Firestore database is a NoSQL, serverless solution for mobile and web application development -- now generally available globally.

Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

If you are just getting started, the 4 words or less developer’s cheat sheet is a great resource that gives you a quick overview of all that is available to you on Google Cloud.

Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine

A technical look at dynamic resource management behind E2 VM machine types.

Cloud Video Intelligence API

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).

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

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.

Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13

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

Google Cloud files complaint due to Microsoft's anti-competitive licensing

Google Cloud has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive licensing practices, which restrict customer choice, stifle innovation, and harm European businesses.

AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere

Today, we’re excited to announce the technology preview of AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run on premises, at the edge, across clouds, or even on developer laptops.

20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience

Success in the movie industry relies on a studio’s ability to attract moviegoers—but that’s sometimes easier said than done. Moviegoers are a diverse group, with a wide variety of interests and preferences. Historically, movie studios have relied heavily on experience when deciding to invest in a particular script—but…

Early Access to Chrome OS Flex: The Upgrade PCs and Macs

Today, we’re excited to announce early access to a new version of ChromeOS bringing the benefits of Chrome OS to PCs and Macs. ChromeOS Flex is the cloud-first, fast, easy-to manage, and secure operating system for PCs and Macs.

How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19

Learn how Google Cloud ramped up to handle high demand for Google Meet in light of COVID-19

Mayo Clinic to partner with Google

Google Cloud will be at the cornerstone of Mayo Clinic’s digital transformation as it looks to the cloud to enhance patient and clinician experiences, improve diagnostics and patient outcomes, and expand its unparalleled clinical research.

Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled

News and updates on Google Cloud's annual cloud computing conference.

Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification

Google Cloud assumes responsibility for potential legal risks of using our generative AI, offering indemnities for training data and generated output.

Busting myths about BigQuery

Cloud Spanner now with a free trial

Create a 90-day Spanner free trial instance with 10GB storage at no cost. Try Spanner free.

GCP and Confluent partner to deliver a managed Apache Kafka service