Revenue from Microsoft and Google cloud services grows significantly
Microsoft and Google parent company Alphabet presented their quarterly figures recently. The results are positive in both cases, with cloud revenue being a particular strong point. Earnings from Azure and Google Cloud increased by 31 percent and 28 percent, respectively.
The most striking feat c... Read more
Google Cloud introduces 4th generation C and N instances
During Google Cloud, Google seized the opportunity to introduce a number of new instances that can provide workloads with more powerful chips. These include the 4th generation C and N instances, C3 bare metal machines, X4 memory-optimized bare metal instances and Z3, the first storage-optimized VM ... Read more
Google Cloud unveils updates to Gemini, Imagen, Gemma and Vertex AI
At Google Cloud Next this year, AI once again plays centre stage. Google Cloud is bringing the necessary updates to its existing LLM offerings within Vertex AI. For example, Gemini 1.5 Pro is in public preview effective immediately. On top of that, it is introducing Imagen 2.0 to generate images, a... Read more
Google Cloud offers sovereign cloud for AI in any data center
Google Cloud has announced that it will now bring the AI race to your local data center. Many organizations want to get started with AI, but are constrained to their own data centers through compliance rules and can't use U.S. based hyperscaler infrastructure. With the new offering, they can now al... Read more
EU drops sovereignty rules for U.S. cloud providers
Cloud service providers seeking contracts within the EU will face less stringent sovereignty rules than previously anticipated. Europe appears to be removing a requirement that providers be independent of laws and regulations outside the EU.
Large cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft and Googl... Read more
Cloud players aren’t abolishing egress fees at all
After Google Cloud and AWS moved to abolish cloud egress fees, Microsoft Azure couldn't refrain from doing the same. From now on, all three major hyperscalers make it possible to pull all data away from their respective cloud platform for free. The catch is that only departing customers get this op... Read more
AWS also moves to eliminate cloud egress fees
After Google Cloud abolished its own egress fees, the competition was always likely to follow suit. AWS is broadening its policy by making data transfers from its cloud service free from now on.
This is not the first time AWS has made a similar change. In 2021, for example, it already raised the... Read more
Stack Overflow and Google Cloud bring Gemini to more developers
By bringing generative AI to Stack Overflow's developer community, developers should have easier access to information.
To that end, Google Cloud will integrate Gemini into Stack Overflow. Developers can invoke the assistant to get help writing code, for example. "Gemini for Google Cloud is alre... Read more
Gemini 1.0 Pro accessible via SQL in Google BigQuery and AlloyDB
Google has just completely reversed the integration of generative AI. Where developers are now used to talking to a model in order to apply genAI, Google has now eliminated that step. Google has made Gemini 1.0 Pro, its latest LLM, directly available in the BigQuery and AlloyDB databases. Through a... Read more
Google Cloud accuses Microsoft Azure of monopoly practices
Google Cloud accuses Microsoft of engaging in monopoly practices to drive its cloud services. That could harm the development of emerging technology, such as GenAI, it states.
Google Cloud has recently resumed solid criticism of its rival Microsoft over its cloud activities, Reuters writes. Thi... Read more