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Nov 2 - Nov 6
- Security for AI workloads with Model ArmorSecuring generative AI applications requires robust runtime protection against prompt injection and malicious inputs. Join Nicola Cardace on Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 5:00 PM CET for a Community TechTalk exploring how to safeguard enterprise AI workloads using Model Armor. Discover practical patterns for implementing active model defense across your LLM endpoints. Register for the November 19 Community TechTalk
- A5X accelerated by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 is now Generally AvailableGet the most out of A5X instances with Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer. Bringing together compute, storage, networking, and software co-designed as a single system. Read more
A5X accelerated by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 is now Generally AvailableGet the most out of A5X instances with Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer. Bringing together compute, storage, networking, and software co-designed as a single system.
Oct 26 - Oct 30
- Simplify PostgreSQL Monitoring with the New AlloyDB Omni Web UIThe newly released AlloyDB Omni Web UI delivers a centralized, graphical dashboard that simplifies the management of self-managed PostgreSQL workloads across hybrid, multi-cloud, and air-gapped environments. This browser-based console provides database administrators with deep, real-time insights into cluster health, hardware utilization, and active database connections. It also features built-in query diagnostics and performance tracking for AlloyDB’s columnar engine, enabling quick troubleshooting of bottlenecks without manual terminal commands. To learn more about setting up this monitoring interface, read the full AlloyDB Omni Web UI Blog Post.
- Leveraging "Antigravity" to architect high performance semantic model routers in ApigeeSemantic model routing replaces rigid static paths with a lightweight helper model to dynamically classify and dispatch intent-driven LLM traffic. Join Saravanakumar Rajagopal on Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 5:00 PM CET for a Community TechTalk exploring how to leverage Antigravity and skills to architect these intelligent multi-provider routing patterns natively inside Apigee. Discover how to optimize your AI infrastructure and enhance flexibility at scale.
Oct 19 - Oct 23
- From prompt to production: End-to-end AI workflows in ApigeeDeploying an enterprise AI gateway does not require deep API or machine learning expertise. Using declarative workflows in Apigee, teams can spin up a fully governed LLM gateway in minutes using a few environment variables. Join Luis Cuellar on Thursday, October 29, 2026 for a Community TechTalk exploring end-to-end AI workflows. Discover how to layer essential defenses—including Model Armor for prompt protection, Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) for sensitive data redaction, rate limiting, and response caching—before routing autonomous agent interactions through your gateway filters.
- Zero Standing Privileges with PAM: On-Demand Temporary Access for Humans and AI AgentsAI agents now hand work off to other agents, risking stacked privileges and overpermissioning. Because agents plan their actions on the fly, permanent admin access means one hallucination can cascade into production. Join us on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, at 8:30 AM PST to see how Google Cloud Privileged Access Manager (PAM) brings Zero Standing Privileges to AI delegation, putting humans in command with cloud-native control that doesn't slow developers down.Register for the November 18 webinar
- Streaming comes to API Gateway: real-time and AI-ready APIsNative streaming support is now in Public Preview for API Gateway, enabling you to run real-time and AI workloads behind your existing gateway. You can now route Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, gRPC, and chunked transfer encoding without modifying your API spec or managing a split estate. This update also strengthens integration with the Gemini platform, allowing you to stream responses from Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI gpt-oss models seamlessly while maintaining consistent authentication, rate limiting, and observability.Read the blog to get started
Read the blog to get started
Oct 12 - Oct 16
- AI tokenomics in action: Enforcing tiered token budgets with ApigeeScaling artificial intelligence across an enterprise requires clear token governance to keep LLM spend predictable across departments. Join Tarun Abraham on Thursday, November 5, 2026 for a Community TechTalk on AI tokenomics. Discover how to use Apigee to enforce isolated, tiered token budgets and model access for each team—such as assigning Engineering a dedicated budget for Gemini Pro while covering mixed usage for Marketing—without changing application code. Attendees will also gain access to a sample codebase featuring a reusable Shared Flow.
Sept 28 - Oct 2
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Google Cloud. Built for focused coding and knowledge work, it delivers stronger performance for feature development, and creating presentation-ready documents, while offering more intelligence with a lower cost per task for most work at faster speed. Deploy Sonnet 5.5 directly from Model Garden with Google Cloud’s enterprise security, scale, and governance built in. Try it now.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Google Cloud. Built for focused coding and knowledge work, it delivers stronger performance for feature development, and creating presentation-ready documents, while offering more intelligence with a lower cost per task for most work at faster speed.
Deploy Sonnet 5.5 directly from Model Garden with Google Cloud’s enterprise security, scale, and governance built in. Try it now.
- Mastering Storage Management with Storage IntelligenceIn our new blog, explore practical strategies to modernize storage operations using Storage Intelligence Advisor and enhanced Batch Operations. See how customers like Shipt and Palo Alto Networks are using these features to manage their estates at scale. Today, Storage Intelligence is used by 25 of the top 50 GCS customers. 2 in 3 customers have Storage Intelligence enabled for over 90% of their storage footprint.Explore best practices on our blog
Explore best practices on our blog
- Cut Gen AI costs by 70% with Apigee X dynamic routingGenerative AI deployments face a harsh cost-performance trade-off: static model selection either wastes budget or compromises quality. Discover how to build an Intelligent AI Gateway using Apigee X to dynamically evaluate prompt complexity in real-time. This new blueprint automatically routes simple queries to lightweight models (like Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite) and complex reasoning tasks to advanced models (like Gemini 3.7 Flash), achieving over 70% cost savings without sacrificing output quality. Read the guide to optimize your Gen AI architecture
Read the guide to optimize your Gen AI architecture
- AI Agent Clinic launches new hands-on session on production agent evaluationsA new episode of the AI Agent Clinic is now available showing organizations how to move past manual "vibe checks" to build robust, production-grade agent evaluations. In this hands-on session, Google Cloud engineer Dani Zamora and Matthew Feroz (Merge) take DocsHound, an open-source LangGraph agent, and build an end-to-end eval pipeline in under an hour. Learn how to standardize multi-turn traces across any framework using OpenTelemetry and OpenInference, pair LLM judges with deterministic checkers, and catch silent quality regressions before shipping. Watch here
Watch here
- Drive AI impact: Join Google's Agentic Data Cloud event on Nov 4Every enterprise plans to adopt agentic AI within two years, but data bottlenecks hold them back—AI accesses just 45% of enterprise data today (MIT, 2026). Google's Agentic Data Cloud provides the trustworthy foundation and real-time context AI needs. Join our product leaders November 4th to explore the latest innovations across databases, analytics, business intelligence, and storage, and get direct answers in our executive Q&A with Google Data Cloud VP & GM Andi Gutmans. Register today!
Register today!
Sept 21 - Sept 25
- Master MCP tool authorization and agent governance with ApigeeWhile the Model Context Protocol (MCP) solves interoperability for autonomous AI agents, chained actions like CRM edits or database queries quickly expose systems to unauthorized execution. Join our technical deep dive on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 5:00 PM CEST featuring Christophe from Google Cloud. Learn how positioning Apigee between MCP clients and enterprise backends enables fine-grained authorization (FGA), complete audit trails, and policy evaluation via emerging standards like OpenID AuthZEN.Language and accessibility note: This session will be hosted in French, but non-French speakers can follow along seamlessly by turning on Google Meet live translated captions to read in English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, or Italian.Register for the October 1 Community TechTalk
Language and accessibility note: This session will be hosted in French, but non-French speakers can follow along seamlessly by turning on Google Meet live translated captions to read in English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, or Italian.
- Apigee Trace Viewer Tutorial: Capturing & Analyzing Proxy TracesStreamlining API proxy debugging just got easier with a new tutorial by Apigee Customer Engineer Tyler Ayers. The guide covers end-to-end instructions for capturing debug traces in both Google Cloud Apigee X (or Hybrid) and the local Apigee Emulator, extracting trace JSON data via the web UI or automated REST APIs, and analyzing execution flows, variable mutations, and latency bottlenecks using the open source Apigee Trace Viewer. Read the Apigee Trace Viewer guide today.
- Automate Apigee proxy testing locallyCatching errors early saves time and money. A new tutorial by Apigee customer engineer Tyler Ayers shows how to use the Apigee Local Emulator for automated testing. Learn to run tests locally, integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, and deploy on Google Cloud Run for shared sandboxes. This approach provides instant feedback and zero cloud costs, helping teams speed up deployment cycles.Read the tutorial
Read the tutorial
- Scale your enterprise multi-agent systems with ApigeeDeploying multi-agent architectures in production introduces critical hurdles around security, operational control, and runtime expenses. Discover how Apigee API Hub provides a central discovery surface to eliminate agent sprawl across tools, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and enterprise APIs. Learn how to turn existing backend services into secure MCP tools using Agent Gateway guardrails, while applying semantic caching and intelligent model routing to keep compounding token costs predictable.Join Google Cloud in Chicago in Oct.15 for The AI Evolution. Reserve your seat for Chicago
Join Google Cloud in Chicago in Oct.15 for The AI Evolution. Reserve your seat for Chicago
- Automate Apigee proxy testing with the Apigee Local EmulatorWaiting on remote deployments to validate API proxy logic slows down release cycles and increases infrastructure overhead. Join Nigel Walters on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 5:00 PM CEST for a Community TechTalk on shift-left testing for Apigee. Discover how to use the Apigee Local Emulator and apigee-emulator-service to run sub-second assertion suites on local machines, automate CI/CD checks in GitHub Actions, and deploy ephemeral preview sandboxes on Google Cloud Run.
- Now in Public Preview: AI-assisted EKS-to-GKE migrations with deterministic guardrailsMigrating complex Kubernetes estates from AWS EKS to GKE is traditionally high-friction and error-prone. Now in Public Preview, GKE Agentic Migration is an open-source agent plugin that replaces ad-hoc LLM prompting with an AI-assisted migration workflow protected by deterministic guardrails.Running locally in your development harness, it indexes source IaC, maps cloud-specific primitives (such as Karpenter to Custom Compute Classes), and validates configurations offline—delivering reviewable pull requests and data-migration runbooks with zero live cluster mutations.Learn more in the announcement blog and try the plugin on GitHub.
Running locally in your development harness, it indexes source IaC, maps cloud-specific primitives (such as Karpenter to Custom Compute Classes), and validates configurations offline—delivering reviewable pull requests and data-migration runbooks with zero live cluster mutations.
Learn more in the announcement blog and try the plugin on GitHub.
- Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on Google Cloud. Built for everyday complex tasks, it delivers stronger agentic coding, research, and analysis while handling long-running work at a lower cost per token. Google Cloud continues to provide enterprise customers with broad model choice to build, deploy, and scale their AI agents securely. Try it here.
Try it here.
- Import Delta Lake tables with Dataflow Job Builder!Migrating to borderless Lakehouse just got a lot easier. You can now import Delta Lake tables stored in Cloud Storage using Dataflow Job Builder, a no-code/low-code interface for authoring Dataflow pipelines. Because Dataflow is a fully managed service, you are spared the overhead of provisioning and managing virtual machines. For step-by-step guidance, check out the documentation here.
Sept 14 - Sept 18
- Storage Intelligence Advisor for Google Cloud Storage is now GAGoogle Cloud Storage customers can now manage cloud storage more effectively with Storage Intelligence Advisor, delivering curated metrics, automated anomaly detection, and actionable recommendations right out of the box, with zero setup required.Advisor baselines activity across your projects and automatically detects four key anomalies: surges in operations, unexpected rises in cross-region egress, and spikes in errors. Each finding includes deep drill-down visibility into the resources driving the change, alongside prescriptive steps to remediate issues before they impact performance or cost.Learn more to get started with Storage Intelligence Advisor.
Advisor baselines activity across your projects and automatically detects four key anomalies: surges in operations, unexpected rises in cross-region egress, and spikes in errors. Each finding includes deep drill-down visibility into the resources driving the change, alongside prescriptive steps to remediate issues before they impact performance or cost.
- Build private WebSockets from Apigee X to Cloud RunReal-time AI agents and streaming architectures often require persistent, bidirectional connections. A new implementation guide by Apigee Customer Engineer Joel Gauci demonstrates how to establish private southbound connectivity between Apigee X and Cloud Run. Using Private Service Connect (PSC) and a Regional Internal Application Load Balancer, teams can enforce API governance and security policies at the edge while keeping backend services completely isolated from the public internet.Explore the step-by-step guide and open-source code
Explore the step-by-step guide and open-source code
- Connecting Gemini Enterprise Agent Runtime to Apigee with Private Service Connect Deploying autonomous AI agents often presents security, compliance, and cost challenges. A new reference guide details how to build an end-to-end, private architecture between Gemini Enterprise Agent Runtime and Apigee. This design helps protect internal backends and manage token quotas. Read the full community guide and deploy the code
Read the full community guide and deploy the code
- Discover what’s new and next in ApigeeAs enterprise architectures adapt to generative AI and autonomous workflows, Apigee is expanding its proven platform capabilities to support modern AI gateway use cases alongside traditional API management. Join our session on Thursday, September 24, featuring Apigee Product Manager Geir Sjurseth. Get an inside look at recent product releases, explore architectural patterns for securing models and agents, and bring your questions for the live Q&A.Register for the September 24 Apigee product update
- Managed Service for Apache Kafka supports clusters with public Internet access!With Managed Kafka public clusters, you can now produce and consume messages from clients outside your VPC—including your local machine, for faster, frictionless testing. Public clusters unlock use cases like IoT devices, retail storefronts, and telco network towers. Enable public access on new or existing clusters via the Google Cloud console, gcloud CLI, or REST API. Spin up your first public cluster, or reach out to kafka-hotline@google.com with questions.
- Stream data directly into Bigtable using Bigtable subscriptions, now in Preview!You can write Pub/Sub messages to a Bigtable table with zero ETL with Bigtable subscriptions. No pipelines, no code, delivered by the serverless, zero-ops experience you already know with Pub/Sub. Power your AI workloads, from model telemetry to real-time context engineering, without the overhead of managing complicated ETL pipelines. Built to be dependable, with native support for dead-letter topics. Try the feature today!
Sept 7 - Sept 10
- Why Your Voice Agent Needs Session AuditingMoving voice agents to production demands robust quality monitoring. This guide dives deep into the inner workings of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) responsible for audio session auditing. Learn how the ADK's save_live_blob feature intercepts, buffers, and stores raw audio chunks during active Gemini Live sessions. We explore building an automated post-processing pipeline to seamlessly stitch these fragments into cohesive, playable audio files. Discover how to leverage these vital audio audit trails to monitor real-world interactions, diagnose failures, and ensure enterprise-grade reliability. Read the full guide here.
- AlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM Orchestrator now Generally AvailableAlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM orchestrator is now Generally Available. The AlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM orchestrator offers a new way to manage PostgreSQL-compatible workloads on bare metal or VM platforms, combining the high performance of AlloyDB, access to generative AI features and Gemini models to build AI agents and applications, and full automation. The orchestrator simplifies cluster provisioning and lifecycle management by allowing you to define reference architecture specifications, customizable by adjusting instance parameters, node configurations, and networking options — discover all details in full blog post.
Aug 31 - Sept 4
- Automate VM guest software lifecycle with VM Extension Manager, now GAGoogle Cloud VM Extension Manager is now generally available, eliminating the need for custom startup scripts to manage guest OS extensions across Compute Engine fleets. Define declarative, project-wide policies that enforce desired software states across all regions and zones. Benefit from continuous drift detection with automatic self-healing, multi-zone phased rollouts with automated rollbacks on failure, and centralized fleet health visibility integrated with Cloud Monitoring.Explore VM Extension Manager documentation
Explore VM Extension Manager documentation
- Assess Apigee migrations without a target environmentPlanning a migration to Apigee X or Hybrid? You can now assess your legacy Apigee Edge SaaS or OPDK environment earlier in your planning cycle. Using the updated --skip-target-validation flag in the Apigee Migration Assessment Tool, teams can generate a full inventory and establish scope baselines before target infrastructure or IAM credentials are provisioned.Read the guide to learn more.
- Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Agent Platform. It brings performance improvements over Fable 5 across reasoning, full-lifecycle coding, multi-tool workflows, and knowledge work. Anthropic also announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a solution that gives customers the option to safely deploy Anthropic’s most capable models while storing their data in cloud infrastructure they control. We continue to offer enterprise customers options across frontier models to build, deploy, and scale securely on Google Cloud.
Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Agent Platform. It brings performance improvements over Fable 5 across reasoning, full-lifecycle coding, multi-tool workflows, and knowledge work.
Anthropic also announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a solution that gives customers the option to safely deploy Anthropic’s most capable models while storing their data in cloud infrastructure they control.
We continue to offer enterprise customers options across frontier models to build, deploy, and scale securely on Google Cloud.
Aug 24 - Aug 28
- Grok 4.6 is now available in Preview on Gemini Enterprise. xAI's most capable model, built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, Grok 4.6 joins Grok 4.3 and Grok 4.20 in Model Garden and becomes the flagship of the Grok family. It supports reasoning, function calling, and structured output for multi-step agentic workflows, and accepts text and image input.Get started today
Get started today
- Empowering autonomous agents with advanced security governanceAI agents offer incredible productivity gains, but granting them access to read emails, query databases, and trigger APIs introduces critical new security risks. In fact, 79% of tech leaders cite security and governance as their biggest challenge to scaling AI. Traditional tools are no longer enough to handle automated threats like prompt injection and dynamic permissions. Discover how forward-thinking enterprises are using secure-by-default design, agent identity governance, and human-in-the-loop controls to deploy agents with confidence.Read more
- Stateful processing is available in BigQuery continuous queries in PreviewStateful operations significantly expand what’s possible with BigQuery continuous queries. This feature allows users to leverage functions like JOINs, aggregations, and windowing functions directly in their streaming queries. Now you can calculate metrics over time (for example, a 30-minute average) to power your downstream applications and AI agents with much richer, real-time signals.
- Try out our feature here and share your feedback with bq-continuous-queries-feedback@google.com!
- Synthetic data generator tool is available for Managed Service for KafkaYou’ve launched your first Kafka cluster. Now what? The next thing to do is to produce some data to the cluster, but that involves modifying a client application somewhere or spinning up a virtual machine. The synthetic data generator tool, now generally available, can start sending mock data to your cluster in 3 clicks, and will get data streaming into your cluster in less than two minutes. The perfect utility for those moments you just want to test your cluster and new features. Try our quickstart today!
- Dataflow pipeline updates are faster & more flexibleDataflow pipeline updates can now stop-and-replace pipelines, a major addition to the existing in-place-update feature. The new parallel pipeline option accelerates the migration between the old & new pipeline, resulting in reduced disruption to your business. You can also set a timeout on drains that prevents runaway costs for your pipeliness in the event of stuck processing. This feature is generally available. Try it here!
Aug 17 - Aug 21
Aug 10 - Aug 14
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