Google Cloud Platform has grown a lot in 2018. The official blog had 557 posts last year, that’s more than one a day. Keeping track of every new feature or announcement is a hard task, and going through 557 posts is also not something anyone really wants to do. Being a machine learning developer myself I’m mainly interested in all the advances made in this particular field. To reflect on the previous year and to make it easier not to miss any new announcements I’ve created this series of blog posts looking back on all highlights of ML-based GCP announcements in 2018. This post will go through some of the most interesting and exciting new products and features, while the next post will give an overview of advances in ML-specific hardware on Google Cloud Platform.

Let’s kick this series of with the new announcements!