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Registration is now open for Google Cloud Next '23
Secure your tickets for Next ‘23, the hottest tech show in town. We cannot wait to get back in person and celebrate with you as we explore the latest and greatest in enterprise technology, community and impact.
Announcements, resources, and next steps from the Google Data Cloud & AI Summit
We recently held the Google Data Cloud & AI Summit, where top minds in data and AI came together to share expert insights, new solutions, and strategies to help you transform customer experiences with modern apps, boost revenue, and reduce costs.
In this article, we share a summary of the exciting product updates and announcements from the Summit, including a roundup of resources to learn more and get started.
Don't miss the Google Cloud IT Heroes Summit
Join this event to unleash your superpowers, like AI innovation, financial resilience, developer velocity, and more. Just think, you could reduce infrastructure costs by 85%, improve developer efficiency by 45%, and deploy applications 2.6x faster. Let’s go!
Located in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)? Visit our EMEA page to view summit events in your time zone.
Save your spot for Google I/O on May 10
Be the first to learn about Google’s latest developer solutions, products, and technology. Google I/O will be broadcast in front of a limited live audience and is open to everyone online on May 10, 2023. Tune in to the livestreamed keynotes, then dive into technical content and learning material on demand. Register today.
Google Cloud learning, training, and certifications
Grow your multicloud skills with new training courses and skill badges
With the rise of multicloud architecture and agile environments, coupled with the growing cloud skills gap, Google Cloud Learning has released new on-demand learning content and skill badges that support the professional’s path to translating their knowledge and skills to Google Cloud.
The new courses include:
- Google Cloud Infrastructure for Azure Professionals (Coursera) (Skills Boost), [Skill Badge] Google Cloud Infrastructure for Azure Professionals
- Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals (Coursera) (Skills Boost), [Skill Badge] Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals
- BigQuery Fundamentals for Redshift Professionals (Coursera) (Skills Boost)
- BigQuery Fundamentals for Teradata Professionals (Coursera) (Skills Boost)
- BigQuery Fundamentals for Oracle Professionals (Coursera) (Skills Boost)
- BigQuery Fundamentals for Snowflake Professionals (Coursera) (Skills Boost)
Prepare for Google Cloud certification with Innovators Plus
The new Google Cloud Innovators Plus subscription can help you get your Google Cloud certified status faster because it provides a full package of training benefits to support your certification journey — with significant cost savings. It includes access to role based learning paths, the opportunity to earn Google Cloud skill badges, certification preparation courses, and a voucher to cover the cost of the certification exam.
This month, we are introducing two new types of benefits with the Innovators Plus subscription. The first is 1-to-1 consultations with Google Cloud experts. Not only that, in addition to the mini-courses and Cloud Hero games offered through the Live-Learning events benefit for subscribers, we are also introducing a new format; Google Cloud Trainer Talks, with training content focused more on the intermediate and advanced levels.
How to transition your career into an in-demand cloud role with suggested job paths
As the cloud continuously evolves, opportunities open across the major categories of infrastructure, networking, application development, security, operations, automation, data analysis and AI/ML. There is a lot to choose from!
So how do you begin building a career in the cloud?
Check out this blog from Developer Advocate, Priyanka Vergadia, which outlines common cloud careers and recommended paths to make the transition from where you are today.
No cost training opportunities
Be sure to actively check out our Google Cloud Training Site for training events, available Certifications, and Cloud OnAir (including on-demand webinars, training, certification prep, and cloud solutions).
Upcoming Google Cloud events
April 12
Transform your Enterprise Workloads and Applications with Google Cloud's One Assessment
Discover how the One Assessment approach helps appraise your environments and data centers. In this hands-on session, we’ll discuss how to use insights to plan migration or modernization, and share migration planning methodology, tooling, best practices, and cost savings.
April 18
Google Cloud Data Lake Workshop
Learn about Google’s unique approach to solving data security, governance, silos, and developer productivity issues that challenge many organizations. We'll also discuss data lake migration methodology, tooling, best practices, and cost savings.
April 19
Google Cloud Apigee workshop - API security
This workshop is designed to help API developers understand the most common API threats and how Apigee can help protect API landscape by using security principles like Rate-limiting, OAuth 2.0 and JWT.
April 19
Google Cloud IT Heroes Summit
Join this event to unleash your superpowers, like AI innovation, financial resilience, developer velocity, and more. Just think, you could reduce infrastructure costs by 85%, improve developer efficiency by 45%, and deploy applications 2.6x faster.
April 25
Building Customer Intelligence Data Platform with Google Cloud
Hypercharge your marketing outcomes with Google Cloud. In this workshop, we’ll discuss ways you can ingest, orchestrate, build ML models and activate using Google’s unified data platform.
April 25
Google Cloud Startup Summit
Want to scale and grow your startup using AI? Join Google Cloud Startup Summit and hear from top VCs, Google experts, and founders to support your startup journey. Access technical resources, AI insights, and Google Cloud solutions to bridge the gap between inspiration and execution.
April 26
Google Cloud's Innovation in AI/ML Infrastructure
Join our specialists for a deep dive into Google Cloud’s unique AI/ML Infrastructure technologies and how they can help you accelerate outcomes for common use cases.
April 27
Google Cloud security tools and best practices to strengthen your cloud security posture
Also available in Portuguese and Spanish on April 19th.
April 27
Ask Me Anything: HashiCorp Terraform on Google Cloud
Get your Terraform questions answered by joining this Ask Me Anything session with leaders from HashiCorp Terraform and Google Cloud.
April 27
Open Conversation around Open Source
Join us as our head of Developer Communities, Ashley Willis, shares more on her journey to the cloud and shares more on getting started with open source, finding the right open source projects, and contributing and managing open source projects.
April 27
Cloud Financial Management: How to foster a FinOps culture
Learn Cloud FinOps best practices to foster a culture of collaboration and accountability that accelerates business value, plus time for live Q&A.
May 2
Zero to analytics - EDW modernization workshop
Join our partners and engineers for a hands-on modern data warehouse workshop. We’ll discuss how to visualize and define data driven strategies with BigQuery, machine learning, data sharing, and analytics.
May 2
Google Cloud & Mandiant Present: Cybersecurity threats and trends
This event will gather security decision makers for a deep-dive session on cybersecurity threats and trends. The event will conclude with a live threat simulation, followed by a networking lunch.
May 3
Cloud observability: What is observability and how Google Cloud manages and improves it
Also available in Portuguese on April 25
Learn the tools and best practices for improving your observability in the cloud, plus live Q&A.
May 4
Cloud Event Management: Best practices preparing for peak season, heavy traffic, and launch events
Also available in Portuguese on May 2, Mandarin on May 16, Thai on May 18, and Japanese on May 25
May 4
Cloud OnBoard: From Data to AI with BigQuery and Vertex AI
Join us for a series of labs where you’ll learn how to use AI to discover potential fraud in real-time with Fraudfinder. In this session, we’ll take you through all of the steps of this Data-to-AI solution — from reading and analyzing transaction data to building, training, and deploying AI models.
May 10
Google Cloud Apigee workshop - API management fundamentals
Full-lifecycle API management tools like Apigee give your applications security and reliability. Join us to learn the basics of API management and how you can create, publish, and secure APIs with management tools like Apigee.
May 10
Cost optimization deep dive for Compute Engine
Also available in Mandarin on May 4.
Join us to learn cost optimization tips and best practices for Google Compute Engine, including time for live Q&A.
May 18
GKE Cluster upgrades: Best practices for GKE cluster stability, security, and performance
May 24
Migrate an app in a day workshop
Looking to migrate to the cloud, but don’t know where to begin? Google Cloud is here to help. Our Google experts will walk you through the steps for migrating an application into the cloud. You will get hands-on experience deploying and working with Google Cloud Platform, specifically modernizing a sample application to open source GCP PaaS services.
Join Google Data Cloud Live in your local area
Join technology and data leaders and data professionals (in person!) to learn how you can capitalize on the next wave of data and AI trends. Learn ways your organization can align data and AI investment plans with business strategy for a force multiplier and innovate faster with the latest capabilities across applications, analytics, visualizations and predictions. Coming soon to a location near you...
- April 27: Pittsburgh
- May 4: Chicago
- May 10: Montreal
- May 11: Cambridge
- May 18: Houston
- May 24: Vancouver
See all Google Cloud events here.
Google Cloud product updates and announcements
Check out our featured product updates and announcements from the past month and see the "What's new with Google Cloud" blog for more details.
Have a question or feedback about one of these resources? Let us know in the comments! Our product owners would love to hear from you.
AI/ML
- Building the most open and innovative AI ecosystem
- Google Cloud brings generative AI to developers, businesses, and governments
- Document AI introduces powerful new Custom Document Classifier to automate document processing
- Your guide to Generative AI support in Vertex AI
- Google Cloud and NVIDIA bring next-generation AI infrastructure and software for large scale models and generative AI applications to enterprises
- Build new generative AI powered search and conversational experiences with Gen App Builder
- Google Cloud Contact Center AI reimagines the customer and agent experience
- How do I speed up my Tensorflow Transformer models? Optimized Tensorflow runtime is now GA
- How you can automate ML experiment tracking with Vertex AI Experiments autologging
App Development
Compute
Containers/Kubernetes
- Run your game infrastructure on GKE Autopilot to focus on player experience
- Kubernetes k8s.gcr.io redirect: what you need to know as an Anthos or GKE user
- Autopilot is now GKE's default mode of operation - here's what that means for you
Data Analytics
- Introducing regional placement in Dataflow
- Understand and trust data with Dataplex data lineage, now GA
- Pub/Sub schema evolution is now GA
- Announcing new BigQuery inference engine to bring ML closer to your data
- New BigQuery editions: flexibility and predictability for your data cloud
- Solving for the next era of innovation and efficiency with data and AI
- Secure and privacy-centric sharing with data clean rooms in BigQuery
- Introducing Looker Modeler: a single source of truth for BI metrics
- Bring analytics to your data: What's new with BigQuery federated queries
- Introducing vertical autoscaling for batch Dataflow Prime jobs
- Looker Studio Connector and Connected Sheets now available for all Looker-hosted instances
- Looker New Performant Field Picker Labs Feature
- Automatically blocking project SSH keys in Dataflow is now GA
Databases
- Rapidly expand the reach of Spanner databases with read-only replicas and zero-downtime moves
- Boost your development on Cloud Spanner change streams with a new tail tool
- Bigtable Monitoring: Client-side metrics
- Run AlloyDB anywhere - in your data center, your laptop, or in any cloud
- Accelerate database modernization with Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB validated partners
- Datastream's PostgreSQL source and BigQuery destination now generally available
- Data Cloud & AI Summit round-up: What’s new in Cloud SQL
DevOps/SRE
- Distributing software everywhere, all at once - a look at Cloud Deploy multi-target
- Google Cloud Deploy adds canary and parallel deployment support
- Terraform support for enabling Cloud SQL Query Insights
Infrastructure
- The new Google Cloud region in Turin, Italy is now open
- Hayyakom, Doha! New Google Cloud region no open in Qatar
Management tools
Networking
- Announcing higher VM- to-internet throughput for several Compute Engine families
- Expanding Cloud Armor DDoS protection to Network Load Balancing and VMs with Public IP addresses
- Cloud Load Balancing: A comprehensive solution for secure and private access to Cloud Run services
Security & Identity
- Introducing time-bound Session Length defaults to improve your security posture
- Announcing Google Cloud’s new Digital Sovereignty Explorer
- Why (and how) Google Cloud is adding attack path simulation to Security Command Center
- Confidential Space: The future of privacy-preserving collaboration
- Announcing Firewall Insights support for firewall policies and trend-based analysis
Google Cloud how-tos, tips, and best practices
AI/ML
- Using ML to predict the weather and climate risk
- Optimize PyTorch training performance with Reduction Server on Vertex AI
- How AI can improve digital security
- Got your eye on AI? Try these 6 interactive tutorials
- Meet the Data Champions: How Goodcall is bringing the power of AI to Main Street Businesses
- Which AI/ML solution on Vertex AI is right for me?
- Machine Learning Accelerator with Looker and BigQuery ML
App Development
- How to play videos using a Flutter application
- How to perform gesture detection in a Flutter application
- How to integrate Flutter with Firebase
- How to integrate Flutter applications with Google Maps
- How to publish a Flutter application to the Play Store and App Store
Containers/Kubernetes
- 5 GKE features to help you optimize your clusters
- Using GKE workload rightsizing to find — and fix — resource utilization
- Getting started with JAX multi-node applications with NVIDIA GPUs on Google Kubernetes Engine
- Anthos Service Mesh: Working with external services - Metrics and Traces
- Workload Identity for GKE made easy with open source tools
Cost Management
Data Analytics
- Performing sentiment analysis with BigQuery ML using sparse features
- Enriching Knowledge Graphs in Neo4j with Google Enterprise Knowledge Graph
- Driving operational insights with Healthcare Data Engine Accelerators
- BigQuery under the hood: Behind the serverless storage and query optimizations that supercharge perf...
- Effective strategies to closing the data-value gap
- Accelerate time to value with Google’s Data Cloud for your industry
- Unify your data assets with an open analytics lakehouse
Databases
- Build a multiplayer game with Cloud Spanner
- How to Connect your Go Application to Cloud SQL
- Process to drop partitions concurrently within PostgreSQL (Cloud SQL or AlloyDB)
- How do I start using AlloyDB Omni?
- Active Directory Diagnosis Tool for Cloud SQL
- Cloud Spanner performance gains by using storing clause in indexes
- Spanner under the hood: Understanding strict serializability and external consistency
- Overview of the AlloyDB Index Advisor feature and how to use it
- Is AlloyDB compatible with PostgreSQL?
DevOps/SRE
- Adopting SRE: Standardizing your SLO design process
- Verify POST endpoint availability with Uptime Checks
- 2022 State of DevOps Report data deep dive: good team culture
- Promoting pre-prod to production in Cloud Run with Google Cloud Deploy
- Realize policy-as-code with Pulumi through CrossGuard on Google Cloud
Infrastructure
- What Google Cloud VMware Engine can do for you: Three customers talk TCO
- Mitigate mainframe migration risks with Dual Run
- The Google Cloud Adoption Framework: A streamlined approach to Google Cloud migration
Networking
- Six benefits of using Service Directory in your environment
- Hosting successful live events with Google Cloud
Security & Identity
- Gleaning security insights from audit logs with Log Analytics
- How to optimize SLA execution with Chronicle SOAR
- How to secure digital assets with multi-party computation and Confidential Space
- Introduction to Organization Restrictions
Serverless
Storage
See the Google Cloud Blog and Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel for more tips and best practices.
Google Cloud podcasts
Cloud Security Podcast
- How to approach cloud in a cloudy way, not as somebody else's computer?
- Minimal Viable Secure Product (MVSP) - Is That a Thing?
- Love it or Hate it, Network Security is Coming to the Cloud
- Threat Horizons - How Google Does Threat Intelligence
- How to Solve the Mystery of Application Security in the Cloud?
- Detection and Response in a High Velocity and High Complexity Environment
Kubernetes Podcast
Google Cloud Platform Podcast
See all Google Cloud podcasts here.