GCP Releases
Google Cloud releases and Terraform Google provider. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
Tracking 819 GCP releases · Updated
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Google Cloud AI Infrastructure and Orchestration Updates - July 2026
Google Cloud is enhancing its AI infrastructure and orchestration capabilities with several new product updates and features, including GA availability for Managed Lustre, C4N VMs, and GKE Dataplane V2 scaling. These updates aim to support the growing demands of AI and agentic workloads, offering improved performance, scalability, and security for developers and enterprises. The announcements include new security tools, practitioner guides, and research reports, all designed to help users leverage Google Cloud's AI capabilities more effectively and efficiently. This monthly update covers a range of AI-related services and tools designed for rapid innovation and cost optimization.
feature patch announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpgaengineerhealthcare ·
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform enhances agent capabilities and security
Google Cloud has expanded Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with new features for agent runtime, memory, security, and observability. These updates aim to help businesses build, secure, and scale AI agents more effectively by enabling longer-running tasks, structured context retention, enhanced identity management, and centralized governance. The enhancements are now generally available to all users, offering improved automation and security for enterprise AI deployments.
feature - Google Cloud release notes gcpgaarchitecthealthcare ·
SAP certified SLES 16 for SAP on Google Cloud
Google Cloud has announced that SAP has certified SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 16 for SAP. This operating system is now approved for use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud infrastructure. This certification benefits SAP customers running workloads on Google Cloud by expanding their OS options.
announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineerhealthcaregcp-vertex-ai ·
Voicify leverages Google Cloud's Gemini and Vertex AI for AI-enabled ordering
Voicify has enhanced its AI-powered voice ordering system by integrating Google Cloud's Gemini Flash and Vertex AI, addressing challenges like transactional precision, traffic spikes, and latency. This migration provides enterprise-grade reliability and security, particularly beneficial for their healthcare and restaurant clients. The solution improves efficiency, reduces onboarding time, and ensures consistent service during peak usage.
feature announcement - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpgapreviewengineerhealthcaregcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-storagegcp-vertex-ai ·
BigQuery Enhances Unstructured Data Analysis with New Search Capabilities
BigQuery has launched new features to simplify the process of extracting insights from unstructured data like PDFs, audio, and images. This aims to reduce the complexity of building AI-powered search and RAG pipelines by managing embedding generation and offering enhanced search functions. These updates are particularly beneficial for enterprises managing large volumes of diverse data, such as in the healthcare sector, and are now generally available or in public preview.
feature patch - Google Cloud Blog blogaigcpengineerhealthcarefinancemediagovernmentgcp-cloud-rungcp-gkegcp-vertex-ai ·
Claude on Google Cloud for Enterprise Production AI
Google Cloud now offers Claude, a frontier AI model, for enterprise production, providing managed infrastructure, global reach, and compliance features. This integration aims to simplify AI deployment by allowing teams to use Claude like any other Google Cloud service, leveraging existing IAM and observability tools. The offering includes managed infrastructure, global and regional endpoints for low latency and data sovereignty, and optimizations for cost and performance.
feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes gcpengineerhealthcaregcp-compute-engine ·
SAP Certified M4N Machine Types on Google Cloud
Google Cloud has announced SAP certifications for its new M4N memory-optimized machine types. These are suitable for SAP HANA scale-up and SAP NetWeaver workloads on the Intel Emerald Rapids CPU platform. Engineers and architects working with SAP on Google Cloud should review the specific certifications for HANA and NetWeaver.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes aiengineerhealthcare ·
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform adds AlphaGenome genomics model
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform now supports AlphaGenome, a foundation model from Google DeepMind for genomics. AlphaGenome analyzes DNA sequences to predict the impact of genetic variations on biological mechanisms. This feature is currently in an alpha release and is available for deployment within the Agent Platform.
feature - Google Cloud release notes gcpengineerhealthcaremedia ·
Google Cloud Contact Center AI adds DNC, return-to-queue, and fixes
Google Cloud Contact Center AI (CCAI) for HubSpot now includes a Do Not Call (DNC) feature for non-campaign outbound calls and a 'Return to Queue' option for disconnected IVR callers. This enhances agent workflow and caller experience by respecting DNC preferences and offering a path back to support. The update also resolves several bugs affecting campaign execution, call handling, agent desktop functionality, and reporting accuracy for enterprise contact center operations.
feature patch - Google Cloud release notes gcpgaengineerhealthcare ·
Google Cloud Contact Center: Agent Assist Hub replaces Knowledge Assist
Google Cloud is replacing the Knowledge Assist panel in Agent Desktop with a new Agent Assist Hub panel, which includes a functionally equivalent Knowledge Assist module. This change affects agents currently signed in, requiring them to sign out and back in for the module to function correctly post-update. The update is expected in early Q3 2026 and requires no customer configuration, only agent awareness of the sign-out/sign-in procedure if issues arise.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes gcpgaengineerhealthcaregcp-bigquerygcp-cloud-storagegcp-pubsub ·
SAP on Google Cloud: ABAP SDK and BigQuery Connector Updates
Google Cloud has released version 1.14 of the ABAP SDK and version 2.15 of the BigQuery Connector for SAP, both now generally available. These updates address specific issues including signature verification for Cloud Storage and attribute consistency in Pub/Sub messages during replication. These releases are relevant for SAP users running on or integrating with Google Cloud.
announcement - Google Cloud release notes gcpengineerhealthcare ·
Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service prerelease notes
Google Cloud has announced prerelease notes for its Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS). This upcoming version includes several bug fixes addressing issues with virtual agent responses, reporting dashboards, attachment visibility, call handling, audio file uploads, agent session timeouts, and user upload data integrity. These updates aim to improve the reliability and functionality of the CCaaS platform for contact center agents and administrators.
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