TWiGCP — “Cloud Next OnAir is here! Also, A100 GPU, Active Assist, Data QnA, and GreenLake”

Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir starts this Tuesday (July 14th) with Thomas Kurian’s Keynote at 9am PT. Be sure to tune in!

Other top GCP stories for this past week include :

• Announcing Google Cloud A2 VM family based on NVIDIA A100 GPU (Google blog)
• Introducing Active Assist: Reduce complexity, maximize your cloud ROI (Google blog)
• Ask questions to BigQuery and get instant answers through Data QnA (Google blog)
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise GreenLake for Anthos now generally available (Google blog)
• Enhancing multi-cloud data governance on Google Cloud — Collibra (Google blog)
• An update on our work on AI and responsible innovation (blog.google)

From the “300th SDK, it’s about time we get a cheat sheet” department :

• Your gcloud command-line questions answered in a printable cheat sheet (Google blog)

From the “Training and certification — now is the time” department :

• New research on how Google Cloud certifications are transforming careers and businesses (Google blog)
• Build your cloud skills at Next ’20 OnAir: No-cost training opportunities (Google blog)

From the “New to Google Cloud or old-timer, there’s something to learn” department :

• Compute Engine explained: Choosing the right machine family and type (Google blog)

From the “Google Cloud Security, from fundamentals to specifics” department :

• How can Google Cloud help with security of your apps? | by Priyanka Vergadia (medium.com)
• A List of Firestore Security Rules for Your Firebase Project (medium.com)

From the “the more newsletters, the better” department :

• GCP Digest — Handcrafted biweekly newsletter of highlights in Google Cloud. Not a bunch of links (gcpdigest.com)

From the “Solutions to common customer problems” department :

• Serverless network endpoint groups overview | Load Balancing (cloud.google.com)
• Traffic Director setup with VMs and automated Envoy deployment (cloud.google.com)
• Scheduling Memorystore for Redis database exports using Cloud Scheduler (cloud.google.com)
• terraform skeleton | by Rafael Alvarez (medium.com)
• Breaking up very large BigQuery jobs | by Patrick Dunn (medium.com)

From “Data structuring is everything” department :

• Apache Atlas and Google Data Catalog comparison (medium.com)

From the “SAP for hands-on practitioners” department :

• SAP on Google Cloud : When SAP Developers join the cloud (pt. 1) | by Lucía Subatin (medium.com)

From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :

• How an API-powered digital ecosystem can drive innovation and efficiency (Google blog)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Podcast] vSpeaking Podcast Ep 162: Google Cloud VMware Engine (blogs.vmware.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #111 — Scalability, with Wojciech Tyczynski (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #226 — Documentation in Developer Practices with Riona Macnamara (gcppodcast.com)

From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :

• [GA] Cloud SDK 300.0.0
• [GA] Dataproc component gateway
• [GA] SLO Monitoring
• [GA] GCE Creating a persistent disk clone from a source disk
• [GA] Cloud SQL PostgreSQL Point in time recovery
• [GA] BigQuery ASSERT
• [GA] Monitoring Query Language
• [Beta] Google Cloud Load Balancer for Serverless Compute
• [Beta] App Engine Go 1.14
• [Alpha] Cloud Dataproc Metastore

This week’s picture is a reminder that we’re kicking off Cloud Next ’20: On Air this week. Don’t miss the first keynote!

That is all for this week!
-Alexis