Google Cloud Next 2024 Migration Announcements

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Google Cloud Next 2024 provided announcements around making it easier to migrate to their cloud platform. Here are the two key highlights:

• Disk Migration: This new feature allows you to migrate individual disk volumes directly to Google Cloud, instead of having to move entire virtual machines. This is particularly useful for migrating self-managed databases or for situations where you need to rebuild the operating system.
• Storage Migration Enhancements: Google announced a couple of improvements to make migrating your storage to Google Cloud Storage easier and faster. First, they made egress costs (data transfer out) from Amazon S3 to Google Cloud Storage completely free. Second, they introduced parallel uploads and downloads in their client libraries for common programming languages, which can significantly speed up data transfer.

The Salient features are listed below in Google Cloud Next 2024:

• Free S3 egress to Google Cloud Storage: Google Cloud is now waiving egress fees for transferring data from Amazon S3 to Google Cloud Storage. This can significantly reduce the cost of migrating your storage to Google Cloud. Google Cloud blog on Migration news from Next ’24: cloud.google.com
• Faster Cloud Storage transfers: Improvements to the client libraries for Cloud Storage mean that uploads and downloads can now be parallelized. This will significantly speed up data transfers for applications using these libraries. Google Cloud blog on Migration news from Next ’24: cloud.google.com

In addition to these, there were announcements for a new CLI tool that helps migrate applications to containers and an extension for Visual Studio that simplifies the process of moving applications from VMs to GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). Overall, Google Cloud Next 2024 seems to have had a strong focus on making cloud migration easier and more efficient.

References and Credits : Migration news from Next ’24 | Google Cloud Blog