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To help you stay up-to-date on all the latest with Google Cloud, we’re starting a new content series - the Google Cloud Customer Newsletter. Posted every month, this is where you can see a summary of major product updates, resources, learning, training, best practices, and events that can help you reach your goals with Google Cloud. (Looking for Google Workspace content? See the Google Workspace Customer Newsletter here)
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Save the date: Google Cloud Next '23 is August 29-31
Join us for Google Cloud Next ‘23 on August 29-31 for product announcements, sneak peeks into future roadmaps, on-site demos with partners and experts, hands-on training and certification opportunities and much more. We really hope you can make it in person in San Francisco.
Apply today for the new Talent Transformation Google Cloud Customer Award
Has your business made talent investments that directly link to your digital transformation strategy? Google Cloud wants to honor your organization for its dedication to developing your team’s Google Cloud skills through our new Talent Transformation Google Cloud Customer Award. Submit your application before March 31, 2023 to be recognized as a global leader in cloud talent transformation.
Learning, training, and certifications
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).
New year, new skills: How to reach your cloud career destination
Cloud is a great place to grow your career in 2023. Some positions do not require a technical background, like project managers, product owners and business analysts. For others, like solutions architects, developers and administrators, coding and technical expertise are a must.
Either way, cloud knowledge and experience are required to land that dream job. But where do you start? And how do you keep up with the fast pace of ever-changing cloud technology? Check out these tips. There are also suggested training opportunities to help support your growth, including no-cost options.
Tips to get the most out of Google Cloud Documentation
As a Google Cloud practitioner, you typically spend a lot of time in the documentation pages to read up on the guides, commands, tutorials and more. The documentation team has introduced several features over the years to make it easier to be more productive while working with Google Cloud documentation.
Check out our top tips to get the most out of Google Cloud Documentation here.
Grow skills with Google Cloud Training
Grow in-demand skills in emerging cloud technologies with Google Cloud training and certification. Explore our comprehensive curriculum on Google Cloud Skills Boost – our definitive destination for online learning, skills development, and certifications.
Subscribe to the new Learning & Certification Hub Newsletter
Learning enthusiasts! We recently introduced the new quarterly Learning Hub Newsletter to keep you up-to-date on everything happening with Google Cloud learning, training, and certifications. And yes, that includes our community challenges - in fact, you’ll see several opportunities in this newsletter to get free credits for Skills Boost!
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Events
February 16
Getting Started with Document AI
With Document AI, you can draw structured data from your documents to make them easier to understand, analyze, and consume. In this session, we’ll cover the basics of processing documents.
February 21
Cloud Financial Management: How to Foster a FinOps Culture
Looking for ways to maximize your cloud investment? Join us on February 21st to learn how to foster a culture of FinOps that accelerates business value, plus time for live Q&A. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish.
February 22
Sustainability and GreenOps with Google Cloud
Join us on February 22nd to learn optimization strategies to reduce your carbon footprint and how to foster a GreenOps culture that drives sustainability best practices, plus time for live Q&A. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish.
February 23
Transform data into intelligence
In this webinar, learn how to increase operational efficiencies, turn data into intelligence, and move to market faster with the Google Cloud Analytics Lakehouse.
February 28
How to accelerate developer velocity with Cloud Workstations
Learn how to enhance the security of your dev environments, while accelerating developer onboarding and productivity in our live learning and Q&A event on February 28th.
February 28
2023 Data & AI Trends Webinar
Join Google, IDC and CNA Insurance for a discussion of what’s trending in data and AI this year.
March 1
Organizational Success with Google Cloud: Best practices for Resource management, IAM, and Billing
Join the Google Cloud Technical Account Management team to learn key resource management best practices for the long term success of your Google Cloud organization or project.
March 7
Cost optimization best practices for BigQuery
Learn how BigQuery pricing works, practical ways to optimize BigQuery costs, and how these cost optimizations can also yield better performance.
March 15
Troubleshooting Apache Beam issues in Dataflow
Running into issues with your data pipeline? Join us on March 15th for a live session on troubleshooting Apache Beam issues in Dataflow, where we’ll demonstrate troubleshooting and debugging tips to get you back on track, plus time for live Q&A.
March 29
Google Data Cloud & AI Summit, AMER
Can your data work smarter? How can you use AI to unlock new opportunities? Join Google Data Cloud & AI Summit to gain expert insights, new solutions, and strategies that can help you transform customer experiences with modern apps, boost revenue, and reduce costs.
March 30
Simplify data operations and access to insights with the Splunk Dataflow template
Want to spend less time managing infrastructure and integrations and more time extracting data insights for your business? Join us on March 30th to learn how you can get to insights faster with the Splunk Dataflow template, plus time for live Q&A.
See all Google Cloud events here.
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
- Processing W2 & Payslips is now even simpler with Document AI
- Scaling machine learning inference with NVIDIA TensorRT and Google Dataflow
App Development and Modernization
- Harden your Kubernetes clusters and monitor workload compliance at scale with new PCI DSS policy bundle
- Verify Cloud Run service availability with new dedicated uptime checks
- Manage Kubernetes configuration at scale using the new GitOps observability dashboard
- Improved gVisor file system performance for GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine and Cloud Functions
- Canary deployments using Kubernetes Gateway API, Flagger and Google Cloud Deploy
- Apply policy bundles and monitor policy compliance at scale for Kubernetes clusters
Data Analytics
- Announcing the GA of BigQuery multi-statement transactions
- Better together: Looker connector for Looker Studio now generally available
- Establish consistent business language and improve trust in your data
- Deliver trusted insights with automatic data quality
- Pub/Sub Lite’s Apache Spark Structured Streaming Connector is now Generally Available
- Bringing alerts to Looker Mobile on iOS
- How to do multivariate time series forecasting in BigQuery ML
- Accelerate integrated Salesforce insights with Google Cloud Cortex Framework
- Seamlessly export Pub/Sub Lite messages to Pub/Sub
- Sparse Features Support in BigQuery
Databases
- Connecting Google Kubernetes Engine to Cloud SQL using the Auth Proxy Operator
- Reducing the storage impact of Point-in-Time Recovery
Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, and Storage)
- Announcing launch of event-driven transfer for Cloud Storage
- A new Google Cloud region is coming to Kuwait
Security
- Introducing Security Command Center’s project-level, pay-as-you-go options
- Google Cloud Firewall capabilities to enhance your security posture and simplify configuration
- Introducing Threat Ready with Mandiant for safer digital transformations to the cloud
How-tos, tips, and best practices
AI/ML
- Vertex AI Foundations for secure and compliant ML/AI deployment
- How to optimize training performance with the TensorFlow Profiler on Vertex AI
- Reading and storing data for custom model training on Vertex AI
- Managing Dialogflow CX Agents with Terraform
API Management
- Unpacking API Management policies [Part 2]: 5 ways to handle REST API authentication
- Unpacking API Management policies [Part 1]: How to transform or reformat your payload
- Large scale hybrid API management: Common challenges with structuring the right teams and platform
- Large scale hybrid API management: Best practices in configuring clusters, scaling, and operations
- Hype or Trend? 7 API management use cases rising in prominence
App Development and Modernization
- Log-based Metrics in Action
- Scalability testing on Google Kubernetes Engine: Know before you go
- Responding to changes in cloud resources with Eventarc and Cloud Run
- Drive operational impact in retail cloud applications using Address Validation
- Reliability and SRE in the 2022 State of DevOps Report
- Building an automated serverless deployment pipeline with Cloud Build
Data Analytics
- Demystifying BigQuery BI Engine
- How to use advance feature engineering to preprocess data in BigQuery ML
- Transform SQL into SQLX for Dataform
- Run faster and more cost-effective Dataproc jobs
- Run data science workloads without creating more data silos
- How to deploy Tink for BigQuery encryption on-prem and in the cloud
- Optimize Cloud Composer via Better Airflow DAGs
- Pub/Sub Best Practices: Subscribing
Databases
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Application security with Cloud SQL IAM database authentication
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Transforming customer experiences with modern cloud database capabilities
Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, and Storage)
- BigQuery authorized views permissions via Terraform, avoiding the chicken & egg problem
- How to migrate Cloud Storage data from multi-region to regional
- How to choose between regional, dual-region and multi-region Cloud Storage
- Access Control set up on Storage Transfer Service
- Imagine the possibilities: Exploring industry use cases for Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliance
- Two networking patterns for secure intra-cloud access - Networking Architecture
- Everything you need to know about architecting reliable infrastructure for Google Cloud workloads
- Transfer data from AWS to GCP using Storage Transfer Service
- Using IPv6 Unique Local Addresses for private connectivity in Google Cloud
- Monitor GCE instances with Prometheus and Ops Agent
Security
- How Anthos helps improve your platform and application security and governance
- Best Kept Security Secrets: How VPC Service Controls can help build defense in depth
- Hierarchical Firewall Policy Automation with Terraform
- CISO Survival Guide: Vital questions to help guide transformation success
- [Infographic] Navigating secure digital transformation in financial services
- How Confidential Space and multi-party computation can help manage digital assets more securely and efficiently
See the Google Cloud Blog and Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel for more tips and best practices.
Podcasts
- How Google Secures It’s Google Cloud Usage at Massive Scale
- Beyond BeyondProd - How Do You Zero Trust Your Workloads?
- Security Architect View: Cloud Migration Successes, Failures and Lessons
- CISO Walks Into the Cloud: And The Magic Starts to Happen!
- Security Incident Response and Public Cloud - Exploring with Mandiant
See all Google Cloud podcasts here.