Google Cloud Customer Newsletter: March 2023

Lesleymustari · March 5, 2023, 5:36pm

Hello Google Cloud Community!

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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Join the Google Data Cloud & AI Summit on March 29 & 30

Can your data work smarter? How can you use AI to unlock new opportunities? Join the 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. Gather to explore the latest innovations in Google Data Cloud for databases, data analytics, business intelligence, and AI.

Located in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)? Visit our EMEA page to view summit events in your time zone.

The digital forecast: 40-plus cloud computing stats and trends to know in 2023

Stay in the know and spark dialogue with the latest cloud computing insights from our live blog. Every stat has a grab-and-go slide (like the one below). We’ll be adding to this post each week, so bookmark it as a go-to resource for the latest cloud computing trends, statistics, and insights to shape decision-making in 2023.

General registration for Google Cloud Next '23 opens March 14

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.

Submit your application by March 31 for the 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).

Career tips and no-cost training for the next generation of cloud technology

Cloud continues to change the landscape of IT. Today we see an array of new job types, functions and roles that have only recently come into existence with the emergence of cloud technology. Have you heard of titles like Cloud Cost Optimization Engineer, Hybrid Network Engineer, or Multi-Cloud Specialist? They are out there, along with many others!

So what does this mean for you? Here are some tips to help you build a sustainable job role to keep you growing as we move into the next generation of cloud computing. Plus, you’ll find a variety of training opportunities to help you meet your skills growth goals.

Access developer benefits with the new and expanded Innovators Plus subscription

Designed for developers and technical practitioners, Innovators Plus provides the best of Google Cloud skill building at significant savings for $299/year. Through this annual subscription, you can save up to 80% on the retail value of the benefits included in Innovators Plus, and advance your cloud career today.

Learn more

Three new Specializations help partners digitally transform customers

Two of our most enduring commitments to partners include our mission to provide you with the support, tools, and resources you need to grow and drive customer delivery excellence, and to ensure Google Cloud partners stand apart as deeply skilled technology pace setters. This includes working with partners to stay ahead of important new trends that have the potential to disrupt our shared customers—and that also have the potential to accelerate your business growth.

To help do this, we’ve rolled out three new Specializations that are aligned to three very important new trends. Check it our blog here to learn more and get started.

Guide to preparing for the Professional Google Cloud Data Engineer Certification (with live Q&A)

Get ready to pass the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification exam by joining Cloud Data Warehouse Engineer, Andrew Fleischer, on April 5th at 9AM PT. In this session, you’ll:

Learn how the Professional Data Engineer Certification helps validate your expertise and elevate your career
Receive expert recommendations and resources to best prepare for the exam, including the topics covered on the exam
Get your questions answered with live Q&A

Register Today

Stay up-to-date with the Learning & Certification Hub Newsletter

Learning enthusiasts! We recently introduced the 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!

Check out the latest edition here. And we’d love to get your feedback about the newsletter. Just complete this form when you’ve finished perusing. Happy reading!

Upcoming events

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 9, 23, and April 6
Marketing Analytics Lunch and Learn (virtual)
Join us for a virtual lunch and learn where you can expect to hear about building a privacy-safe data strategy, how Google customers are leveraging Google Cloud to increase ROI, and how to get started with marketing analytics on Google Cloud’s data platform.

March 14
Best practices to optimize resource usage and eliminate unnecessary costs on GKE
Join the Google Cloud Technical Account Management team on March 14th to learn the most common pitfalls that lead to non-optimized usage of Kubernetes clusters, along with the tools, techniques, and best practices to optimize resource usage and eliminate unnecessary costs on GKE.

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 15
Building modern, cloud-native apps with Google Cloud
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you will learn how to use our technologies to build future state containerized applications. We’ll discuss topics including connecting and building applications with private and fully managed databases, adding intelligence to your apps, and how Google tools can improve your applications.

March 16 and 30
Modern Applications and Databases Lunch and Learn (virtual)
Join us for a virtual lunch and learn where you can expect to hear about how Google customers are leveraging Google Cloud to increase ROI, how to get started with applications and databases on Google Cloud, and how to build what’s next with GCP services.

March 22
Google Cloud Apigee workshop — API management fundamentals
Full-lifecycle API management tools like Apigee give your applications security and reliability. Join us to learn the basics of API management and how you can create, publish, and secure APIs with management tools like Apigee.

March 27-30
Cloud Technical Series

Boost your expertise in the mostsought-after cloud skills and learn how cloud can transform your business faster at this free, marquee two-day online training event. With hands-on labs, demos, and skills badge rewards to showcase your expertise, it’s time to take your cloud skills to the next level.

March 29 & 30
Google Data Cloud & AI Summit
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.

March 30
Cloud OnBoard: Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
Learn the basics of getting started with Google Kubernetes Engine. Create a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster, deploy your first app, and explore the capabilities Kubernetes provides to manage how your app is deployed across your Google Cloud infrastructure.

April 5
Guide to Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification
Get ready to pass the exam by joining Cloud Data Warehouse Engineer, Andrew Fleischer, on April 5th to receive expert recommendations and resources to best prepare for the exam, plus live Q&A.

April 19
Google Cloud IT Heroes Summit
Celebrate your feats and learn from other IT leaders who have successfully challenged the status quo. Join this event to unleash your superpowers, like AI innovation, financial resilience, developer velocity, and more.

April 25
Google Cloud Startup Summit
Want to scale and grow your startup using AI? Join Google Cloud Startup Summit to discover a new world of networking with top venture capitalists, Google AI experts, and early-stage founders and to support your journey with innovation.

April 27
Google Cloud security tools and best practices to strengthen your cloud security posture

Gain an understanding of the security tools and new features available to you (with a focus on networking and developer security), and how to best use these solutions to strengthen your end-to-end cloud security posture.

May 3
Cloud observability: What is observability and how Google Cloud Operations manages and improves it
Learn what observability in the cloud really is, why it’s important, and how Google Cloud solutions help manage and improve it, plus 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

Document AI Workbench is now Generally Available to train document extraction models for your production use cases

App Development and Modernization

Data Analytics

Databases

Industry solutions

Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, and Storage)

Local SSD for high-performance storage on Google Kubernetes Engine
GKE Autopilot: Balanced compute class is now GA, supporting Pod resource sizes up to 222vCPU and 851GiB

Operations and Management

Logs for Network Load Balancing and logs for Internal TCP/UDP Load Balancing are now GA
Running SAP workloads on Google Cloud? Upgrade to our newly released Agent for SAP
Track your Cloud Monitoring uptime checks in the Google Cloud mobile app
Global External HTTP(S) Load Balancer and Cloud CDN - now support advanced traffic management using flexible pattern matching in public preview
Better troubleshooting with a new Cloud Logging plugin for Grafana
Introducing new cloud services and pricing for ultimate flexibility

Security

Confidential GKE Nodes on Compute-Optimized C2D VMs are now GA
Introducing Security Command Center’s project-level, pay-as-you-go options

How-tos, tips, and best practices