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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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Terraform Google Provider v7.34.0: New Resources, Features, and Fixes
Terraform Google Provider version 7.34.0 introduces several new resources and data sources, including `google_compute_service_attachment` and `google_config_deployment`. It also adds new fields and improvements to existing resources like `google_compute_subnetwork` and `google_container_cluster`. This release also addresses several bugs, ensuring more stable and robust management of Google Cloud resources via Terraform.
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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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BigQuery, Cloud CDN, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Trace updates
Google Cloud announced several updates including the general availability of the Data Science Agent for Colab Enterprise and BigQuery, enhanced Cloud CDN cache policies for global external Application Load Balancers, and broader IPv6 support for regional and cross-region load balancers. Cloud Trace is now generally available with Observability Analytics and an Observability API, enabling SQL-based trace data analysis and configuration. These updates benefit data scientists, engineers, and architects working with BigQuery, AI tools, and load balancing infrastructure.
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GKE Adds JobSet Metrics, Knowledge Catalog Data Products GA
Google Kubernetes Engine now offers two preview system metrics for monitoring JobSet training efficiency: scheduling goodput and proxy runtime goodput. Additionally, Knowledge Catalog's data products are now generally available, featuring approval workflows, automated documentation powered by Gemini, and service account support. Preview support for a Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server allows programmatic interaction with data products.
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Google SecOps SOAR Release 6.3.85 Available
Google SecOps SOAR has released version 6.3.85, now available in all regions. This update brings general availability to the latest iteration of the security orchestration, automation, and response platform.
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GCP Releases: DNS Armor GA, Apigee Emulator v2.0.0, DMS for SQL Server GA
Google Cloud has announced several updates, including the general availability of DNS Armor features and dedicated support for Cloud SQL for SQL Server migrations in Database Migration Service. The Apigee Emulator now follows independent versioning with v2.0.0, enabling faster security patch delivery and addressing numerous vulnerabilities. Additionally, Generative Views in Database Center are available in Preview, leveraging Gemini for natural language query generation.
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Google Cloud Updates: Apigee, App Engine Migration, AlloyDB
Google Cloud has released updates for several services. Apigee X and Apigee hybrid received new versions with bug fixes, including improved Model Armor response parsing and resolution of missing container images. The App Engine Migration hub now offers tools and recommendations for migrating standard environment services to Cloud Run across Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
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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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Terraform Google Provider v7.33.0: New resources, compute migrations, and fixes
This release of the Terraform Google Provider (v7.33.0) introduces new data sources and resources for services like Logging, Apigee, and Chronicle. Several compute resources have been migrated to use direct HTTP calls, improving efficiency. Additionally, numerous improvements and bug fixes are included across various GCP services, enhancing the provider's stability and feature set for users managing Google Cloud infrastructure.
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Apigee Hybrid v1.16.3, Gemini Enterprise, and more GCP updates
Google Cloud released Apigee Hybrid v1.16.3 with a fix for a CrashLoopBackOff state and custom environment variables for Guardrail pods. Gemini Enterprise now offers GA for Gemini 3.5 Flash, with previews for Crossbeam data store integration and managed agents, alongside updates to NotebookLM Enterprise and AI Content Detection.
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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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Gemini Enterprise, Google SecOps parsers, and SOAR updates
Gemini Enterprise in Agent Designer now defaults to Gemini 3.1 Pro, offering improved performance and an option to revert to previous models. New documentation is available for ingesting logs from numerous sources into Google SecOps, enhancing data normalization. Additionally, Google SecOps SOAR is rolling out release 6.3.85 with internal and customer bug fixes.
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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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GCP May 2026 Updates: Backup, KMS, Load Balancing, GKE, Spanner
Google Cloud has released several updates across its services, including backup and DR enhancements, general availability for Cloud KMS metrics, new variables for Application Load Balancers, and support for concurrent node pool upgrades in GKE. These changes aim to improve performance, security, and flexibility for various workloads, impacting engineers and architects managing cloud infrastructure.
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Apigee hybrid v1.16.2 release with new features and security fixes
Apigee hybrid version v1.16.2 has been released, introducing support for Basic Auth credentials in forward proxies and sidecar authentication for Workload Identity Federation on AKS and EKS. This update also includes several bug fixes for API product restrictions, deployment status delays, and runtime issues, along with various security and CVE fixes. It primarily impacts engineers and architects managing Apigee hybrid deployments.
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GCP May 2026 Updates: AI, Security Fixes, and Platform Enhancements
Google Cloud released several updates including Apigee API hub support for Agentic AI workflows in preview, numerous security fixes for Apigee, and new BigQuery AI functions. These changes are relevant to engineers and architects working with GCP services, particularly those involved in API management, AI integrations, and data analytics.
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Google Cloud updates: BigQuery, Cloud Workstations, COS, Gemini
Google Cloud's latest updates include a billing label change for BigQuery Data Transfer Service, enhanced workstation authorization URLs in Cloud Workstations, and an LTS refresh for Container Optimized OS with numerous security fixes. Gemini Enterprise sees GA for its Box data store integration and an Early Access program for the Gemini Distillation Service is launching. These changes affect BigQuery users, Cloud Workstations administrators, COS users, and those leveraging Gemini Enterprise.
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Google Cloud updates: Apigee, Bigtable, COS, Dialogflow, Gemini, Looker
Google Cloud announced several updates including preview features for Apigee API hub and Gemini Enterprise, and general availability for Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. Additionally, security patches were applied to Container Optimized OS and Dialogflow, and Looker received numerous bug fixes and new features like Conversational Analytics data agents.
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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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