Google Cloud Newsletter, April 2018 | 20+ security enhancements harden Google Cloud

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Newsletter  |  April 2018

New ways to secure businesses in the cloud From boot to deployment and beyond: Over 20 security enhancements further harden Google Cloud to keep you covered. Learn how

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PLATFORM NEWS Forrester: Google, a public cloud development platform leader Forrester's latest report cites a $30.9 billion infrastructure investment and a fully managed serverless platform as top reasons GCP continues to rise. GCP receives FedRAMP authorization GCP is now cleared for use by US federal, state, and local government customers. Side benefit: Those seeking FedRAMP authorization can now streamline certification by inheriting IaaS and PaaS controls from GCP. Google and Netflix introduce Kayenta for canary analysis For continuous delivery at any scale, changes need to be fast – and safe. Kayenta, an open-source automated canary analysis service, lets teams reduce the risk associated with high- velocity deployments to production. Google Kubernetes Engine private clusters now in beta Deploy cluster nodes that can only be accessed from within the trusted Virtual Private Cloud – with the master node completely blocked from internet access by default. For more on locking down containers, check out this overview.

RESOURCES New Cloud Armor: policy-driven defense at scale for internet-facing services Feature-rich, highly customizable Cloud Armor gives you Google-grade protection against DDoS attacks. Cloud Data Loss Prevention API now GA for text, images, storage, and databases Discover, classify, and redact sensitive, personally identifiable information at rest – and in real time – across GCP. Introducing Stackdriver APM and Stackdriver Profiler Analyze, debug, and tune your apps – even as they run in production – with zero impact on your users' experiences. Expand your knowledge: an exploded view of the GCE create an instance dialog Sometimes it's easy to forget just what Google Compute Engine can do – until it's all laid out in front of you. AutoML Vision answers one man's burning question: Which shop made my ramen? Using machine learning to classify everything from ramen to branded goods is as easy as uploading photos. Trained on 48,000 images in 18 minutes, AutoML Vision got it right 94.5% of the time. Highlights from the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018 Machine learning is changing fields from astrophysics to air traffic control. Watch how, or learn for yourself with MIT's Introduction to Deep Learning.

UPCOMING EVENTS Modernize IT with Google Cloud, Red Hat, and Rackspace April 27 Google I/O 2018 May 8–10 JFrog swampUP May 16–18 Informatica World 2018 May 21–24

CLOUD ONAIR Live webinars held weekly by Google Cloud experts. Visit Cloud OnAir to see all upcoming sessions. Deploy like Netflix and Google with Automated Canary Analysis May 1, 9 AM PT Get started with Kubeflow for Kubernetes May 15, 9:45 AM PT

CLOUD ONBOARD Get a technical introduction to GCP at Cloud OnBoard, a free, instructor-led training event slated for multiple cities throughout North America.

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