| Cloud Composer: Managed Apache Airflow on GCP | | | | Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring: Observe multiple clusters at scale | | | | Cloud Bigtable adds three zones in the UK and North America | | | | Additional releases | | GCP expands its GPU portfolio with the NVIDIA Tesla V100 | | NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs are publicly available in beta on Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine with up to 1 petaflop of precision hardware acceleration performance. NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs are now generally available. View here | | Introducing Kubernetes Service Catalog and Google Cloud Platform Service Broker | | Together, the Kubernetes Service Catalog and the Google Cloud Platform Service Broker make it easier for users to set up and connect a broad range of cloud-based services – including seven GCP services – to Kubernetes clusters. View here | | GCE: OS Login Cross-Organization VM Access | | A new IAM role allows administrators to grant VM access to users outside of their organization. Now generally available, the OS Login feature allows for greater control over instance access and permissions. View here | | GCE: Create VMs from an existing template | | Customers just got a new way to create instances. Create a VM instance based on an existing instance template and override certain fields in the template. Now generally available. View here | | GCE: Iceblink 4T Machine Types | | Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of system memory are now available in beta. The new machine types support the most demanding scale-up workloads, such as in-memory databases. View here | | Monitor internal load balancing in Stackdriver | | Now production-ready. Project owners can export key internal load-balancing metrics to Stackdriver to evaluate usage and performance, troubleshoot, and improve resource utilization and user experience. View here | | Dialogflow introduces new features | | Dialogflow has added a new beta feature in the console to allow developers to create snapshots or versions of their agent and manage custom environments such as development, staging, or production. View here | | Cloud Dataflow: Intertransform I/O side input metrics | | Side input metrics show you how side inputs affect your pipeline's performance. Monitor reads and writes of side inputs and their impact on your job's execution time. View here | | Cloud Dataflow: Auto Zone job placement | | With Auto Zone placement, a Dataflow regional endpoint automatically selects the best zone within the region based on the available zone capacity at the time of the job-creation request. Users don't have to specify a zone separately if they specify a regional endpoint. View here | | gRPC and StreamingPull for Cloud Pub/Sub | | Now in GA, new gRPC methods – including the StreamingPull method – enable Google Cloud Client Libraries to deliver much lower latency and throughput per CPU for PubSub subscription clients. View here | | New Cloud Pub/Sub reporting audit logs | | Cloud Pub/Sub audit logs are now generally available. Logs include administrative operations. View here | | Cloud DNS has added DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an extension to the DNS protocol that uses public key cryptography to authenticate DNS responses, helping to prevent attacks against user domains. View here | | Toggle firewall rules in GCP | | Easily disable and re-enable firewall rules in GCP. The ability to selectively disable rules – without deleting them – allows users to observe, diagnose, and modify network behavior as rules are changed. View here | | This beta release of Cloud CDN Signed URLs provides a mechanism to give a client limited-time access to a private resource without requiring additional authentication, while still getting the latency and cost benefits of Cloud CDN. View here | | API PLATFORM & ECOSYSTEMS | | Introducing Google Maps Platform | | The 18 individual Maps APIs have been distilled into three core products: Maps, Routes, and Places. All will work with existing code and are integrated into the GCP Console under one pricing plan with free support. View here | | Hosted Targets allows Node.js applications to run in a native, secure, scalable, isolated environment hosted by Apigee, where Edge API proxies can call them as target services. View here | | Cloud Console: Record of Processing Feature for GDPR | | In support of GDPR compliance, the Record of Processing feature is now generally available in the Cloud Console. View here | | Instance-level IAM comes to Cloud Bigtable | | Assign Cloud Bigtable IAM roles at the instance level and segregate access by use case and across multiple teams. Users can be kept in the same project, avoiding the need to create projects to limit access to resources. View here | | New zone and services for the Singapore region | | A third zone (asia-southeast1-c) has launched in the Singapore region. Along with the new zone, the region has added three new services: Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, and Managed Instance Groups. View here | | | See you in the cloud, | | The Google Cloud Platform Team | | | | |
