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In case you missed it in May: 250 million events in BigQuery, 10 big launches, 3 great customers, 1 acquisition and no carbon footprint
Saturday, May 31, 2014
May was a busy month for Google Cloud Platform. In case you missed it, here’s the roundup:
BigQuery just got bigger. We made the
world’s largest event dataset
available publicly. Now, anyone can use BigQuery to run queries over more than 250 million global events in the
GDELT Event Database
. The database is continuing to be updated everyday, so you will always get up-to-date results.
We had a number of substantial product releases. On May 6, we launched the
Google Cloud Storage JSON API
and the next week, we announced support for
MySQL 5.6 on Google Cloud SQL
. MySQL 5.6 gives you access to geospatial distance queries, full text indexing in InnoDB tables, online schema changes, and greater performance. On May 23, we made
CoreOS images available on Google Compute Engine
, further broadening our portfolio of supported Operating Systems. And, this past week we released a
new and improved gsutil
.
Also in May,
App Engine 1.9.5
made its debut, with performance improvements and
STARTTLS
support for the dev_appserver. Compute Engine got a bit more muscle with new
16-core instances
(and it’s cheaper than you think at about
$1.30 per hour
). Furthermore, Docker fans will be pleased to know that
container-optimized images
are now available in preview on Google Compute Engine.
If you looked closely at the
console
, you probably noticed some changes. We launched a new source-editing feature, which allows you to edit your code and commit it to the
free private git repo
associated with each project. After which, you can now
receive email notification
when your build and tests finish running. Once your app is deployed, you can easily navigate to the current log entry and easily collaborate with a shareable URL to that entry. Then enable http and https firewalls in Compute Engine instances right from the console with one click. Then, you can get started writing some code with the new native
Windows installer for the
Cloud SDK
, which continues our stream of releases that aim to help Windows users more easily use Cloud Platform.
This month, we also announced that
Stackdriver was joining the Cloud Platform team
. This Boston-based startup has pushed the envelope when it comes to monitoring and logging for public clouds. Stackdriver’s team is already working side-by-side with Cloud Platform, and we will give you a preview of what we’ve been doing together at Google I/O.
On the blog, we heard from three great customers about how they are using Cloud Platform.
Webfilings
CTO Jeff Trom wrote about how their small engineering team in Ames, Iowa is able to serve 60% of the Fortune 500. We put together a
video
about the company when we visited them earlier this year.
Wix
wrote about how it was able to build a functional disaster recovery cluster in under two weeks on Cloud Platform.
Message Bus
shared how Google BigQuery helps the company manage over 1 terabyte of data produced each day and make this data usefully available to their users. And, in addition to this, we published
22 new customer case studies
on our website, including
Evite
,
feedly
,
Leanplum
and many more.
On top of all of that, we’re continuing to make big strides to ensure that Cloud Platform is environmentally friendly. The Official Google Blog
ran a story
about how we are using machine learning to drive energy efficiencies in our data centers, and
on our blog
we wrote about what this means for users of Cloud Platform.
June promises to be a busy month ahead. You’ll hear more from us at
DockerCon
,
GigaOM Structure
, and, of course,
Google I/O
.
-Posted by Benjamin Bechtolsheim, Product Marketing Manager
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