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Google Cloud updates: Bigtable, Gemini, GKE, Chronicle API
Google Cloud announced several updates across its services. Bigtable now offers backups up to 365 days, Gemini Enterprise released Core Assistant GA and preview observability features, and GKE introduced C4A bare metal instances and Confidential GKE Nodes. The Chronicle API has been unified and upgraded, while Cloud Storage will delete empty folders with its Object Lifecycle Management Delete action starting August 2026.
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App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Compute Engine, Document AI Updates
Google Cloud has released several updates across its services. App Engine standard environments now offer improved security and maintainability for Go, Java, PHP, and Python applications with bundled services. Cloud Composer introduces support for Google Cloud tags and enhanced Kubernetes secret management, alongside new Airflow versions and deprecations. Compute Engine introduces new C4A bare metal machine types, and Document AI gains layout parser image and table annotations.
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Apigee X Security Bulletin, BigQuery Enhancements, Python UDFs GA, Gemini Enterprise Updates
Google Cloud released a security bulletin for Apigee X addressing an SSRF vulnerability. BigQuery can now re-execute queries to detect regressions, and Python UDFs are Generally Available. Gemini Enterprise sees updates including supervised fine-tuning for Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and deprecation of the NotebookLM Enterprise Podcast API.
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BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloud Workstations, GDC VMware, and Google SecOps Updates
This release introduces several enhancements across Google Cloud services. BigQuery now supports reservation grouping for slot sharing and custom organization policies for workload management, with Git integration for SQL scripts and notebooks in BigQuery Studio. Google SecOps enhances its Data Export API with advanced filtering, zero-trust security, and identity-aware extraction, while deprecating legacy endpoints. Other updates include row-affinity routing for Bigtable and persistent directory resizing for Cloud Workstations.
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Google Cloud Updates: Data Boundaries, AI Features, and Ops Agent Enhancements
Google Cloud has announced expanded data boundary support across multiple regions, including new capabilities for BigQuery's AI.DETECT_ANOMALIES function, Cloud Build's results field, and Ops Agent's telemetry export using the OpenTelemetry API. These updates affect engineers and architects working with data governance, ML, and observability.
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AlloyDB, Anthos, Cloud SQL, Gemini, and GDC updates in Google Cloud
Google Cloud has released updates across several services including AlloyDB, Anthos, Cloud SQL, Gemini, and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). Key changes include extended PostgreSQL support for AlloyDB, token-based authentication for Anthos Config Management, and regional endpoints for Cloud SQL. Gemini Enterprise now supports Provisioned Throughput for Gemma 4, and GDC receives new software versions with vulnerability fixes and feature enhancements. These updates impact database administrators, platform engineers, and AI developers working with Google Cloud services.
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BigQuery multi-region sharing, Gemini Enterprise updates, and Cloud Trace
BigQuery now supports multi-region sharing for datasets and linked replicas, reaching general availability. Gemini Enterprise introduces new data stores in public preview and fixes an audio track extraction issue. Cloud Trace automatically generates spans for agentic applications, enhancing behavior analysis. A breaking change will affect BigQuery Data Transfer Service connectors for Google Ads, Search Ads 360, and GA4 starting June 1, 2026, due to Google Ads data retention policies.
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Terraform Provider for Google v7.30.0
This release of the Terraform Google Provider introduces new resources for Data Lineage, Artifact Registry, Document AI, and Firebase Remote Config. It also includes improvements such as support for regional endpoints, new disk types for Workbench instances, and enhanced BigQuery connection configurations. A breaking change in the Apigee provider requires the `name` field for `google_apigee_env_keystore`.
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Terraform Provider for Google Cloud v7.27.0 Released
This release of the Terraform Google Cloud provider introduces several new data sources and resources, including support for Discovery Engine, Chronicle dashboards, and network connectivity. It also includes improvements for compute, container, dataproc, and other services, alongside bug fixes for compute and vertex AI. Users should be aware of a breaking change making the weekly maintenance window field required for Lustre instances.
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