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
Google Cloud Run abused for large-scale attacks on financial institutions
Cisco Talos recently found that Google Cloud Run has been abused on a large scale. Attackers are using this service to distribute high volumes of banking trojans, particularly to target financial institutions in Latin America.
Recent research by Cisco Talos shows that cybercriminals have been ab... Read more
Kyndryl and Google Cloud will jointly build generative AI solutions
Kyndryl will intensify its collaboration with Google Cloud, with the development of new generative AI solutions. The focus within the new collaboration will be on Google Cloud's AI technology, focusing on the tech giant's latest product, LLM Gemini.
Within the collaboration, Kyndryl and Google C... Read more
Google Cloud cuts egress fees, something competitors charge a premium for
Google Cloud customers wanting to migrate their data to another cloud or on-premises environment no longer have to pay to do so. The tech giant is discontinuing its so-called 'cloud egress fees', effective immediately. It's something Google Cloud's competitors charge a premium for.
According to ... Read more
What should Google’s Gemini offer developers?
Google is bringing Gemini's capabilities to the places developers already are. That brings the possibility to personalize and fine-tune Gemini to the wishes of their organizations. For Europe, however, the most important news seems to be that the Imagen AI image generator is getting a second versio... Read more
Google wants antitrust action against Microsoft
Google is calling on the British regulator CMA to take action against Microsoft. According to Google, Microsoft would significantly harm competition.
This is according to a letter obtained by Reuters. Google's complaint relates to the licensing policy. These policies would unfairly discourage Mi... Read more