Hello, cloud gurus. I'm Broadus Palmer.
And I'm back with another episode of GCP this month for October, 2020.
Now this month,
we rounded up all the latest news and announcements for the Google cloud
platform.
With Google wrapping up its ninth week of Google cloud on air conference last
month,
we have a few less announcements to cover that we had in the previous month,
but this has to stop Google from keeping the exciting news coming.
We'll take a look at new regions for cloud functions and updates for cloud
pub/sub VPNs and cloud SQL.
So sit back and enjoy this episode of GCP This month.
Let's start our Quick Bites off with some updates to cloud Functions.
Cloud functions are available in 11 more regions.
Cloud functions is now supported in 11 more regions across North and South
America, Europe, the middle East Asia and Oceania.
This brings the total number of available regions to nineteen.
Now with the first regions to host cloud functions in South American and
Australia, this opens the Gates to new customers and locations.
Previously unavailable cloud pub/sub ordering is now in general availability.
This pub/sub feature that allows you to ensure your messages are delivered in
the correct order is now in GA.
This could be applied to messages with the same ordering key.
There are an insane region while many applications don't need force ordering - a
travel website, for example, would just go and find airline prices.
This could be critical for someone like an online auction where ordering would
be critical to know who has the highest bid.
Pub/sub light is now in GA.
If you're using pub/sub and looking to reduce costs,
pub/sub light is now in GA and might just be what you're looking for.
This is a single zone version of pub/sub.
And while it does have more limitation and less fault tolerance,
it could offer a lot more savings than your standard pub/sub product.
Economy of scale is critical in cloud technology.
The difference between 2 cents and 20 cents isn't much, but with enough use,
that could be the difference between $2000 and $20,000.
This may be a chance for important cost optimization.
Cloud VPN partial deprecation announced.
Google has announced a partial deprecation of classic VPN.
And from October, 2021, there would be no classic VPNs whatsoever.
Although your existing ones would continue to work.
So now's a good time to think about upgrading to the new ha VPNs.
Companies running deprecated technology is always a risky thing in case
something breaks.
Now this is a good chance for companies using classic VPNs to think 12 months
ahead. Cloud SQL deny maintenance periods available for cloud SQL.
Google introduced new deny maintenance periods for cloud SQL.
This allows you the ability to prevent automatic maintenance during specific
periods mitigating the risk for outages or performance degrading at critical
times.
With the holiday season fast approaching and the economy 2020,
every second counts.
Nobody wants angry tweets from customers about their website being slow or
experiencing outages and going to the competitor instead.
While we should never avoid updates altogether,
we should consider if there are cases where this feature will be useful in the
coming months. All right, that's it for our quick bites,
let's dig a little bit deeper into GCP Gem for this month.
Google has renamed and relaunched this G suite platform as Google workspaces.
The G suite platform enables many businesses,
including a cloud guru to use Google productivity tools like Gmail,
Google calendar docs, Google drive, and more.
These changes were foreshadowed in their announcement at next on air,
back in July,
they now bring the branding and more in line with their existing Google naming
conventions.
Now this rebranding includes some new uniform icons for existing services and it
could mean we see additional UI updates for the component services to make apps
feel more uniform across the board.
Google has added new features that will allow you to work more efficiently
within the platform, including the ability to preview link files and docs,
sheets, and slides without having to open a new tab,
saving you more time for moving between apps.
Google has also flagged future integration across their products.
So we can look forward to using Google meet video chat with Gmail or with apps
like Google doc, which could make live collaboration a whole lot simpler.
With everyone's situation changing drastically this year,
you're probably relying on virtual workspaces a lot more so it's good to see
Google is bringing some updates to compete with Microsoft's integrated Teams
offering.
With the end of all the great announcements let's move to my favorite section of
the show, Guru of the month.
[Inaudible].
Two of our entrants Abirami and Lav were very close with their answers this
month. So special kudos should be given for that.
But this month was a tricky one because the answer we were looking for was
actually "leave the defaults alone".
So I winner for this month's GCP Guru of the month is Russell Lane,
who is a cloud consultant for Marton New Zealand. Congratulations, Russell,
we'll be sending you a care package,
continuing to exclusively designed t-shirt and some stickers.
Now for all you other gurus who want a special prize package,
try your luck by answering the questions which can be found at the link below.
We do want to know how you came up with the answer though.
So make sure to give us your reasonings along with your answer.
Thanks for joining me on this episode of GCP This month, I've been your host,
Broadus, and I look forward to seeing you next time,
keep being awesome Cloud Gurus.