Hello cloud gurus, July,
2021 has been a great month for GCP.
We've had a new region come online in Delhi, India.
The next big thing - registration is now open for Google cloud Next 21 Online
and Google helps you not shoot yourself in the foot. I'm your host,
Mattias Andersson. And you're watching GCP this month with all this and more.
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All right. Big news.
Google is now online with their new region in Delhi,
national capital region India.
This Asia south two region is full featured with three separate zones
and support for tons of GCP products and services,
including big query, big table, cloud run, cloud SQL,
cloud spanner, cloud storage, cloud VPN, compute engine, data flow, data proc,
GKE, memory store, secret manager, VPC, and more.
Also for GCP customers who are located in India, not just doing business there,
there are two more quick things to note.
First GCP invoices can now be paid by scanning a unified payment interface or
UPI QR code.
And second Google has some updated information for you about their tax deducted
at source for TDS compliance. Hmm.
I could really go for some vindaloo and palak paneer right now. Next,
mark your calendars and sign yourself up in either order,
but definitely do both of those things.
Google cloud Next 21 is happening on October 12th to the 14th.
The link to get more info and to register is in the video description.
I see that Kelsey Hightower and Sarah Robinson have already been listed as two
of the featured speakers.
So I'm looking forward to catching their talks among others.
Now this will be a completely digital event again this year.
So there's no need for you to arrange, travel or worry about COVID.
You can enjoy everything from the comfort and safety of your own desk.
And to be honest, I'm rather relieved that it's a three-day sprint this year,
not another nine week marathon, but Hey, let us know in the comments,
which one you prefer three days, nine weeks. I'm curious. Now,
normally I like when Google makes things easier and they've definitely done that
with a number of things this month,
but I sometimes also get happy when Google makes some things harder and that's
exactly what they've done with their new cloud storage public access prevention,
in preview. Because harder is a good thing
when it's in regard to making a mistake, especially a security mistake,
like taking private data and making it public.
Do a search for public bucket breach And you'll see what I mean.
To solve this way too common issue Google has added the ability to restrict
your buckets from the possibility even of becoming public.
No one can open up public bucket access When this is turned on.
You can set this powerful option anywhere you want in the resource hierarchy,
including the folder level. As Google says,
you should use public access If you know your data should never be exposed on
the public internet to provide the most security to your resources.
We recommend enforcing public access prevention at the highest possible level of
your organization. Good security is good business. Okay.
Now let's move on to our quick bites.
Anthos is branching out and it's now possible to create your own anthos managed
stuff on Microsoft Azure. And when I say stuff, I mean, Kubernetes clusters,
load balancers, storage volumes, all those Anthos-y things.
Google's cloud certificate authority CA service is now generally available.
Now this is all about enabling you to set up your own private certificate
authority,
integrating it with HSMs (hardware security modules) and making it scalable,
highly available, and completely serverless with pay as you go pricing. Oh,
and by the way, there's also already a Terraform provider for this too.
Predictive auto-scaling for compute engine managed instance groups is now
generally available and another new improvement to compute engine snapshots of
persistent disks can now be application consistent, not just crash consistent.
You no longer have to manage flushing the memory to disk yourself.
Now let's take a look at a few quick updates on cloud SQL.
First is that the SQL server flavor now supports SQL server 2019 and Auth
through active directory, both in general availability.
Second is that cloud SQL now supports cross-region replicas or CRRs
in all flavors. Now that CRRs are also in preview for SQL server.
Also the mySQL flavor has just gotten support for database authentication
through GCP's identity and access management or IAM.
You no longer have to set and manage database level passwords,
which I'm sure some people thought was fun, but not the same ones.
Another good thing for security,
you can now set Kubernetes engine role-based access control or RBAC through
Google groups.
This is way more maintainable and therefore also more secure than managing
access at the account level.
If you're using data flow or Apache beam for your data processing pipelines,
you should take a look at whether the new data flow GPU support would benefit
you.
Data flow GPU makes it very easy to take advantage of SIMD parallel processing,
that's single instruction, multiple data,
without having to manage any of the details yourself.
Google shows the speed up for an example,
natural language processing ML pipeline that they use dropping from
166 minutes to just 10.
I wish I could get that kind of speed up for other things in life, right?
Google's ops agent now generally available is made to replace their older and
separate logging and monitoring agents.
This reportedly supports 15 times higher throughput for logs than the legacy
logging agent. Another dramatic improvement,
big query now supports taking a point in time Snapshot of a table in preview.
Snapshots are read only and relatively low cost because they only store and
charge you for the data Delta, not the full table. Well all right.
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