GCP Release Notes: March 24, 2026

BigQuery

Feature

You can now use the BigQuery Data Transfer Service remote MCP server to enable AI agents to create, manage, and run data transfers. This feature is in Preview.

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

The Telemetry API’s supports up to 60,000 metric-ingestion requests per minute per region. The regional quota replaces the global quota. To learn more, see Telemetry API quotas and limits for metric ingestion.

Cloud NGFW

Feature

You can use the URL filtering service to filter your workload traffic by using domain and Server Name Indication (SNI) information available in the egress HTTP(S) messages. For more information, see URL filtering service overview. This feature is available in General Availability.

Cloud Router

Feature

Cloud Router supports named sets in Preview for BGP route policies. Named sets are used to group together expressions of either communities or BGP prefixes, allowing them to be managed or referenced as a single entity. For more information, see BGP route policies overview.

Cloud Storage

Announcement

Anywhere Cache has been renamed to Rapid Cache.

Cloud Trace

Feature

The Telemetry API supports trace ingestion of up to 2.4GB per minute for the following regions:

• asia-east1, asia-northeast1, asia-southeast1, and asia-south1
• europe-west1, europe-west2, europe-west3, and europe-west4
• us-central1, us-east4, and us-west1.

For all other regions, the Telemetry API supports trace ingestion of up to 300 MB per minute.

These regional byte-based quotas replace a global quota which limited the number of requests per minute. To learn more, see Telemetry API limits and quotas.

Compute Engine

Feature

Generally available: The maximum throughput for a Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disk is increased to 2,400 MiB/s from 1,200 MiB/s. Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability provides high availability block storage for mission-critical workloads by synchronously replicating data between two zones within a region.

For more information, see Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability overview.

Dataproc

Announcement

New Dataproc on Compute Engine subminor image versions:

• 2.1.112-debian11, 2.1.112-rocky8, 2.1.112-ubuntu20, 2.1.112-ubuntu20-arm
• 2.2.80-debian12, 2.2.80-rocky9, 2.2.80-ubuntu22, 2.2.80-ubuntu22-arm
• 2.3.27-debian12, 2.3.27-ml-ubuntu22, 2.3.27-rocky9, 2.3.27-ubuntu22, 2.3.27-ubuntu22-arm

Gemini Enterprise

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Get insights with the Data Insights agent (GA with allowlist)

The Data Insights agent is a Made by Google agent that provides insights from your BigQuery data. This feature is available as a GA with allowlist. Contact your Google Cloud sales representative to access this feature.

For more information, see Get insights with the Data Insights agent.

Generative AI on Vertex AI

Deprecated

Imagen generation GA endpoints deprecation

The following table describes image generation endpoints that are deprecated and their replacements. We recommend updating your model endpoints before June 30, 2026, to avoid service disruption.

Discontinued endpoints	Recommended endpoint migration
imagegeneration@002	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagegeneration@003	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagegeneration@004	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagegeneration@005	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagegeneration@006	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagetext@001	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-3.0-capability-001	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-3.0-capability-002	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-3.0-fast-generate-001	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-3.0-generate-001	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-3.0-generate-002	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-4.0-generate-001	gemini-2.5-flash-image
imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001	gemini-2.5-flash-image

Deprecated

Video generation GA endpoints deprecation

The following table describes video generation endpoints that are deprecated and their replacements. We recommend updating your model endpoints before June 30, 2026, to avoid service disruption.

Discontinued endpoints	Recommended endpoint migration
veo-3.0-generate-001	veo-3.1-generate-001
veo-3.0-fast-generate-001	veo-3.1-fast-generate-001
veo-2.0-generate-001	veo-3.1-generate-001

Source: Google Cloud Platform