Google’s $30 billion investment, plus Urs Hölzle and Sam Ramji talk the future of GCP

Google Cloud Newsletter, January 2018. Cloud trends, resources, and platform news.

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Newsletter  |  January 2018 2018 infrastructure outlook $30 billion invested over the past three years. Five new regions. Three new undersea cables. We're just getting started. SEE THE NETWORK

Urs Hölzle on the history, security, and future of cloud WATCH THE VIDEO    Sam Ramji: making GCP the most developer-friendly cloud LEARN HOW

PLATFORM NEWS Announcing Cloud AutoML: drag-and-drop machine learning From weekend warriors to Disney marketers, AutoML Vision lets anyone use a drag-and-drop interface to upload images and train, manage, and deploy custom models directly on GCP. Preemptible GPUs now 50% cheaper than on-demand equivalents Attach NVIDIA K80 and P100 GPUs to preemptible VMs for $0.22 and $0.73 per GPU hour, respectively. Use GPUs at predictable, affordable prices for large-scale ML and other computational batch workloads. Google Kubernetes Engine 1.9 is now available for early access Greater support for stateful and stateless apps. Storage interoperability. Hardware accelerator support for ML workloads. Run your production-ready apps on GKE 1.9, and let us manage the infrastructure. OpenCensus: new, simplified stats collection and tracing OpenCensus, the vendor-neutral, open-source version of Google's Census library, automatically collects traces and metrics from your app, displays them locally, and sends them to analysis tools like Stackdriver and Cloud Bigtable.

RESOURCES Google Open Source wants to talk with you New blog and social media accounts let you talk shop with Google open-source evangelists. Lift and shift a line-of-business application onto GCP This first in a series tackles migrating an on-prem web app to GCP. Then read how and why Apigee Sense made the move. Stronger than strong: Cloud Spanner's strong consistency defined Fewer bugs, fewer headaches, easier-to-maintain code. Learn how strong consistency fundamentally changes app performance. Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance Learn how Google reacts to the latest security threats and stay up to date with Compute Engine security bulletins.

CLOUD ONAIR Live webinars held weekly by Google Cloud experts. Visit Cloud OnAir to see all upcoming sessions. Introduction to Google Cloud Spanner February 6, 2018, 9 AM PT How to Select the Right Storage Class for Your Workload February 6, 2018, 9:45 AM PT

UPCOMING WEBINARS Using BigQuery to reveal how weather impacts search behavior February 13, 2018, 10:30 AM PT Hardware Root of Trust with Google Cloud IoT Core and Microchip February 6, 2018, 11 AM PT

UPCOMING EVENTS rstudio::conf 2018 February 2–3, 2018 Cloud OnBoard Santa Clara February 13, 2018

OVERHEARD @polleyg An absolutely EPIC blog by Will Fuks (@dafiti_brasil) on how they built a recommender system on @googlecloud. Number of servers used? Zero. @lak_gcp Being able to connect to internal Google resources directly from a public WiFi is one of those things that I wasn't sure I could talk about. When people talked about VPNs and firewalls, I would simply nod my head... Follow us on social media Add your voice to the conversation and get the latest news, views, and insights.

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