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What’s new for Google Cloud databases — December 2024
- Google has announced its recognition by Forrester for its cloud databases work, acquiring the accolade of Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024 report.
- Google has created a generative AI whitepaper for the data industry that describes the four pillars of successful AI database applications.
- Google Cloud's databases have seen a range of product updates, including Cloud SQL's integration with Certificate Authority Service.
- Advanced Disaster Recovery for PostgreSQL and MySQL has launched with preview functionality, providing seamless disaster recovery testing and execution without application changes.
- Google's Cloud SQL Enterprise+ for PostgreSQL and MySQL has integrated data cache enable/disable to allow users near-zero downtime for MySQL and PostgreSQL primary instances and scalability through instance scaledown.
- Memorystore for Redis Cluster has introduced single shard clusters, node-level metrics, and OSS autoscaler for optimized automatic performance, capacity, and budget optimization in customer clusters.
- Google has also announced improved existing products; including enhanced availability for AlloyDB, which has extended storage and supports in-place version upgrades, and Spanner, which provides directed reads functionality and improves query efficiency with the query optimizer now in GA.
- Ford Pro Intelligence, Unity Ads, Tricent Security Group, Palo Alto Networks, and Flipkart have been highlighted as businesses that are successfully transforming through Google Cloud database solutions.
- Google Cloud also offered a list of upcoming events, including webinars on database solutions like CloudSQL and Memorystore in combination and a discussion with Bayer concerning geospatial data processing.
- Finally, those looking to try Google Cloud databases can now benefit from a 30-day AlloyDB free trial instance, a 90-day Spanner free trial, and $300 in free credits for new Cloud SQL customers.
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