BigQuery multi-region sharing, Gemini Enterprise updates, and Cloud Trace
aiazuregcpgapreviewdeprecationengineermedia
feature patch breaking deprecation announcement
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.
Read the original announcement →
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#May_06_2026