Cloud SQL for MySQL managed buffer pool
is now generally available (GA).
Managed buffer pool helps you avoid out-of-memory events (OOMs) on your
Cloud SQL instance by reducing innodb_buffer_pool_size when memory usage is high.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
Generally available: You can gradually create Flex-start VMs in a managed instance group (MIG) as capacity becomes available. Unlike resize requests for MIGs that wait for full capacity before creating VMs, this method might create only a portion of your requested Flex-start VMs if capacity is unavailable. The MIG creates the remaining VMs later as capacity permits. Flex-start VMs run for up to seven days and help you obtain high-demand resources, such as GPUs, at a discounted price.
For more information, see Create a MIG that uses Flex-start VMs.
]]>As of August 26, 2026, in buckets with hierarchical namespace enabled,
the Object Lifecycle Management Delete action will
delete empty folders when the empty folder meets all of the conditions in the
lifecycle rule.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
Application Load Balancers now support the configuration of a
traffic duration
setting when you add backends to backend services. You can configure this
setting as SHORT or LONG based on the response time needed by backends to
complete HTTP requests.
Application Load Balancers also support the use of the in-flight balancing mode that lets you configure the load balancer's traffic distribution to supported backends when requests take more than a second to complete.
This feature is in General availability.
]]>Zonal affinity, which was previously available in Preview, is generally available (GA).
For more information, see Zonal affinity for internal passthrough Network Load Balancers.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
You can now create and configure the following organization-level Cloud NGFW resources within a Google Cloud project:
For more information, see Security profile overview, Security profile group overview, and Firewall endpoint overview. This feature is available in Public preview.
]]>Generally available: Compute Engine has enabled support of Spot VMs in Google Cloud Dedicated universes. Spot VMs are available for C3, M3, and A3 machine series. Use Spot VMs for workloads that can withstand preemption to receive a discount of up to 60% off the on-demand price. For the latest pricing information, see the pricing page.
For information about how Spot VMs work, see Spot VMs and Create and use Spot VMs.
]]>Custom data retention periods are supported for the _Default log bucket and
for user-defined log buckets in Google Cloud Dedicated universes. For
more information, see
Configure custom retention.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
There are no new releases in the Stable channel.
There are no new releases in the Stable channel.
Cloud Storage Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is generally available. You can connect to Cloud Storage from AI applications using the server. It lets AI applications and agents create buckets, retrieve object metadata, read and write object data, and list buckets and objects. For more information, see Use the Cloud Storage MCP server and Cloud Storage MCP reference.
]]>Generally available: You can create a Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disk by cloning a zonal Hyperdisk Balanced or Hyperdisk Extreme disk. This lets you make your zonal workloads highly available by adding a replica of the data in another zone within the same region.
For more information, see Create a regional disk clone from a zonal disk.
]]>Generally available: You can rotate the customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) used to encrypt a disk, standard snapshot, or archive snapshot to a new key version without downtime.
Generally available: You can change the CMEK used to encrypt a disk, standard snapshot, or archive snapshot to a different key without downtime.
For more information, see Rotate the CMEK for a disk or standard snapshot and Change the CMEK for a disk or standard snapshot.
]]>You can view the physical location of your Compute Engine instances in a zone to understand your cluster topology. This information helps you reduce network latency between your compute instances. For more information, see View Compute Engine instance topology.
Generally available: You can control the physical location of the Compute Engine instances in a MIG by using workload policies. Workload policies help you to, for example, place your compute instances close together to minimize network latency when running AI or ML workloads. For more information, see About workload policies in MIGs.
GKE cluster versions have been updated.
New versions available for upgrades and new clusters.
The following versions are now available for new GKE clusters, and for manual control plane upgrades and node upgrades for existing clusters. For more information about versioning and upgrades, see GKE versioning and support and About GKE cluster upgrades.
There are no new releases in the Stable channel.
There are no new releases in the Stable channel.