Episode description

Mattias Andersson covers the biggest Google Cloud news this month; Google Cloud Next registrations open, India gets a new region, and Cloud Storage security gets a boost with public access prevention. We also run down service updates for Cloud SQL, RBAC for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) through Google Groups, and it’s now possible to create your Anthos clusters on Microsoft Azure!

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Quick jump to the Google Cloud Platform news:Introduction (0:00)
Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR, India now open (0:33)
Registration open for Google Cloud Next ’21 (1:24)
Cloud Storage public access prevention (2:10)
Anthos Clusters on Azure (3:21)
Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service now GA (3:33)Predictive Autoscaling now GA and Application-consistent snapshots (3:55)
Cloud SQL for SQL Server now GA (4:12)
Cloud SQL for SQL Server gets preview support for cross-region replicas (4:23)
Cloud SQL for MySQL launches IAM database authentication (4:33)
GKE RBAC via Google Groups (4:48)
New Dataflow GPU dramatically speeds up some pipelines (5:02)
Ops Agent now GA, combines Logging and Monitoring/Metrics (5:34)
BigQuery not supports table snapshots (5:48)

• The new Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now open: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google-cloud-region-in-delhi-ncr-is-now-open
• Registration is open for Google Cloud Next: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/register-now-for-google-cloud-next21
• Cloud Storage Public Access Prevention Overview: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/public-access-prevention
• Anthos clusters on Azure installation overview: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/azure/how-to/installation-overview
• Announcing general availability of Google Cloud CA Service: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-certificate-authority-service-is-now-ga
• Let Google Cloud’s predictive services autoscale your infrastructure: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-compute-engine-predictive-autoscaling
• Implementing Application-Consistent Data Protection for Compute Engine Workloads: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/implementing-application-consistent-data-protection-compute-engine-workloads
• Three security and scalability improvements for Cloud SQL for SQL Server: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/improving-cloud-sql-for-sql-server-security-and-scalability
• Google Groups for RBAC (GKE): https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/role-based-access-control
• Give your data processing a boost with Dataflow GPU: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/give-your-data-pipelines-a-boost-with-gpus
• The Ops Agent is now GA and it leverages OpenTelemetry: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/operations/ops-agent-now-ga-and-it-includes-opentelemetry
• Introduction to BigQuery table snapshots: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/table-snapshots-intro
• Cloud rules everything around me: https://www.pluralsight.com/ps-and-acg

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