Google Cloud Update: July 2024

Google Cloud Update Summary - July 2024

The summary of essential information about Google Cloud in July 2024

Business Intelligence

⭐ Gemini in Looker now includes AI-powered features for slide generation and a formula assistant.

Gemini in Looker leverages natural language and Google's AI to transform how you gain insights from your data. It facilitates faster discovery, collaboration, and decision-making, making these capabilities accessible to everyone in your organization. Read more.

Automatically build Google Slides from your reports in seconds

Create formulas and calculated fields without consulting your manual

Data Analytics

⭐ The SQL Server source for Datastream is now generally available.

Datastream's SQL Server source has reached general availability, enabling seamless and reliable data replication from SQL Server databases to BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and other Google Cloud destinations. This facilitates near-real-time analytics, data-driven decision-making, generative AI applications, and data lakes. Read more.

⭐ Announcing new stream recovery capabilities for Datastream

In data replication, pipelines can fail, making it challenging to pinpoint the cause and restart replication without data integrity issues. Datastream's new stream recovery feature allows for quick resumption of data replication with minimal to no data loss, even in cases of database failover or prolonged network outages. Read more.

Databases

⭐ New Cloud SQL upgrade tool for MySQL & PostgreSQL major versions and Enterprise Plus

Upgrading to a new major version of a database can be complex and risky. To simplify this, Google Cloud is introducing an automated upgrade tool for Cloud SQL, supporting MySQL (5.7 to 8.0.31) and PostgreSQL (9.6, 10, 11 to 14, and 15). This tool offers automated assessments, issue resolution scripts, and in-place upgrades, including Enterprise Plus edition upgrades, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruptions. Read more.

⭐ Migrate specific MySQL databases using Database Migration Service

When migrating to Cloud SQL, you might want to move all or just specific data from your source instance. Google Cloud's Database Migration Service (DMS) simplifies full migrations, but selecting specific databases or tables can be challenging. Read more.

Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp