Google Cloud has joined the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (FS-ISAC) critical providers program, which allows non-financial entities that provide services and infrastructure to share threat intelligence and other information that can help secure the financial services s.. read more  

According to 451 Research, almost every enterprise today supports multiple cloud platforms, making multi-cloud an opportunity for Google to catch up to market leaders. Google is placing importance on helping enterprise customers support multiple cloud platforms, andits multi-cloud supporthas alread.. read more  

Google has launchednew generative AI capabilitiesinGoogle CloudandGoogle Workspace, allowing businesses and developers to create products, build on Google's best language models, and customise their own models and apps using generative AI. The new capabilities include thePaLM APIandMakerSuite, whic.. read more  

The article discusseshow to prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification exam. The author recommendsa balancebetweenhaving the right certificationsandnot having too many. The Professional ML Engineer certification is considered the most valuable to have and is ta.. read more  

Google has introducedBigQuery slot autoscalingas a public preview feature, allowing the number of slots inside of a reservation to be scaled up and down as needed for running workloads. The new billing model is based on the "pay-for-what-you-use" approach and bills by a construct called "slot/hour".. read more  

The Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer exam covers a wide range of topics related to data management on Google Cloud, including management, storage, analytics, databases, operations, security, and artificial intelligence. The exam can be taken in an exam facility or remotely, and it's importan.. read more  

The author compares the cost and performance of various big data processing frameworks includingBigQuery,Dataflow, andSparkfor processing data in their organization's tiktok-like feed. They generate a set of reproducible data and run benchmark tests locally and on GCP. They find that whileBigQuery .. read more  

- AWS Lambda now supports configuring up to 10,240 MB of ephemeral storage for functions in 6 additional regions. - This feature enables the building and running of data-intensive workloads with Lambda functions, including ETL jobs, financial computations, and machine learning inferences. - Ephemera.. read more  

- Amazon Redshift Serverless now allows a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPU) - Previously the minimum base capacity required to run serverless was 32 RPU - With the new lowered base capacity minimum of 8 RPU, users have more flexibility to support a.. read more  

- AWS Application Composer is now generally available for building serverless applications - It allows users to drag, drop, and connect AWS services into an application architecture using a browser-based visual canvas - Users can start a new architecture from scratch or import existing AWS CloudForm.. read more