Cloud Computing

Accelerate retail media success with EPAM and Google Cloud

Retail media networks, a type of advertising platform that allows retailers to sell ad space on their digital channels to third-party brands, are nothing new. But they are about to change dramatically in the coming year. Consumers are increasingly privacy-conscious and desire more personalized ad recommendations. EPAM and Google Cloud have been working on retail […]

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PyTorch/XLA 2.5: vLLM support and an improved developer experience

Machine learning engineers are bullish on PyTorch/XLA, a Python package that uses the XLA deep learning compiler to connect the PyTorch deep learning framework and Cloud TPUs. And now, PyTorch/XLA 2.5 is here, along with a set of improvements to add support for vLLM and enhance the overall developer experience. Featured in this release are:

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Unlocking the power of Spanner: 10 partners to revolutionize your data

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses need a database solution that can keep up with their evolving demands. Spanner is the always-on, globally consistent, and virtually unlimited-scale database, powering a wide array of modern applications across different industries. Spanner powers a number of Google products with billions of users, including Gmail, and has become the

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today, Anton Chuvakin, senior security consultant for our Office of the CISO, offers 10 leading indicators to improve cyber-physical systems, guided by our analysis of the White House’s new PCAST report. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to

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C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU

At Google Next ‘24, we announced Google Axion Processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs designed for the data center. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series, with up to 10% better price-performance than the latest generation Arm-based instances available from leading cloud providers. C4A VMs

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Introducing an industry first: application awareness on Cloud Interconnect

Multicloud architectures are becoming commonplace as more business-critical applications are moving to the cloud. Last year, we introduced the Cross-Cloud Network to transform and simplify hybrid and multicloud connectivity, and enable organizations to easily build distributed applications. As organizations modernize their infrastructure, leveraging AI/ML and other managed services, they have adopted Cross-Cloud Network to reduce

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Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Google’s network. But 25 years in, we’ve built out network infrastructure with scale and technical sophistication that’s nothing short of remarkable. It’s all the more impressive because in the beginning, Google’s network infrastructure was relatively simple. But as our user base and the demand for our

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Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future

The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing for both system performance and cost effectiveness. Google Cloud has been pioneering AI infrastructure for over

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Announcing the Developer Preview of DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin

We’re excited to announce the Developer Preview of DynamoDB Mapper for Kotlin. This high-level library provides streamlined, idiomatic ways for developers to map data between their business logic written in Kotlin and their tables in DynamoDB. DynamoDB Mapper works with most Kotlin data classes right out of the box and also offers powerful features for

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Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind


On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier. They explore the needs that both merchants and consumers have for creating a seamless checkout experience, the importance

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