What’s New with Google Cloud: Your Monthly Roundup

Stay informed with the latest happenings in Google Cloud. This article serves as your go-to resource for recent updates, announcements, new resources, and upcoming events. Check back regularly to stay in the know.

Recent Updates

Multi-Agent AI Systems

Google Cloud is enhancing its multi-agent AI systems. These systems optimize complex processes by breaking them into tasks executed by specialized AI agents. A reference architecture guide is available to assist with building secure and reliable systems. Design guides are also available to help choose the right agent design patterns.

Koog Supports Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)

Koog now supports A2A, enabling direct communication between agents across companies and clouds. This support provides Kotlin developers with enterprise-grade AI capabilities. Build sophisticated agents that discover and collaborate with other services, utilizing Google Cloud’s AI models.

Grounding with Google Maps is GA

Grounding with Google Maps in Vertex AI is now generally available. This feature allows developers to build generative AI applications connected to real-world information from Google Maps.

Production-ready YOLO Model Training

A guide is available on Vertex AI for training a custom YOLO model. It covers the complete workflow, from custom training jobs to model registration in the Vertex AI Model Registry.

Scaling Inference To Billions of Users

Google Cloud provides an architecture to serve AI models at a planetary scale. The article details how the ecosystem provides a production-ready path. It explores the technical deep-dive.

Confidential Computing Updates

New capabilities are available to protect sensitive data. This includes Confidential GKE Nodes, Confidential Space, and Confidential GPUs. Expansion of Intel TDX to more regions is also announced.

Firestore with MongoDB Compatibility

Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is now generally available. Developers can utilize existing MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools with Firestore’s serverless service.

Earth Engine in BigQuery

Earth Engine in BigQuery is now Generally Available, bringing advanced geospatial analytics directly to BigQuery workflows.

New HPC VM and Slurm-gcp Images

New HPC VM Image and Slurm images have been released to deploy Slurm-ready clusters on GCP, providing an HPC-optimized foundation.

Gemini Embedding Model Scaling

Following its General Availability launch in May, quota and input size limits for the Gemini embedding model have increased. Customers can now send up to 250 input texts per request.

GKE Node Memory Swap

GKE Standard nodes now offer swap space in private preview to provide a buffer against Out-of-Memory errors.

GKE Topology Manager

GKE Topology Manager is now GA to optimize performance through NUMA alignment.

GKE NodeConfig Expansion

GKE has expanded node customization capabilities, adding nearly 130 new Sysctl and Kubelet configurations.

New Capability for Managing Licenses

A new capability in Compute Engine allows users to change OS licenses on their VMs.

GKE Turns 10 Hackathon

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a hackathon. Submissions are open from August 18, 2025 to September 22, 2025.

C4 VMs with Local SSD

C4’s expanded shapes are now GA! This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen Titanium Local SSD, C4 bare metal instances, and new extra-large shapes, all powered by the latest Intel Xeon 6 processors, Granite Rapids.

DMS SQL Server to PostgreSQL Migrations

DMS SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations are now generally available.

Stay Updated

This overview covers a selection of recent updates. Keep checking back for the latest announcements and developments in Google Cloud.