GCP Release Note: July 18, 2025

AI Hypercomputer

Feature

Generally available: You can troubleshoot workloads with slow performance by using straggler detection metrics and logs.

Stragglers are single-point, non-crashing failures that eventually
slow down your entire workload. Large-scale ML workloads are very susceptible to stragglers, and VMs with stragglers are often very difficult to notice and pinpoint without straggler detection.

For more information, see Monitor VMs and Slurm clusters and Troubleshoot slow performance.

Apigee API hub

Feature

Apigee and hybrid plugin instance management

You can now create and delete plugin instances for Apigee and Apigee Hybrid while associating the respective Apigee runtime projects to API hub.

For more information, see Auto-register Apigee proxies.

Breaking

Apigee and Apigee hybrid plugin creation now requires source project ID

When creating new instances of the Apigee X and hybrid plugin, you must now provide a source project ID. This source project ID is the Google Cloud project from which the plugin will import data.

This is a breaking change and will affect any existing API calls that create these plugins without explicitly providing this ID.

Action Required: Update your API calls to include the appropriate source project ID when creating new Apigee X and hybrid plugins. Failing to do so will result in creation errors.

Changed

Edit plugin instances changes

You can now change or modify the name and curation logic of your plugin instance.

For more information, see Edit a plugin instance.

Changed

Resource URI format for Apigee deployments

To ensure optimal functionality and consistency while creating or updating Apigee deployments, we now recommend that the Resource URI conforms to the following format:
organizations/([^/]+)/environments/([^/]+)/apis/([^/]+)$

For more information, see Introduction to deployments.

Cloud Asset Inventory

Feature

The following resource types are now publicly available through the ExportAssets, ListAssets, BatchGetAssetsHistory, QueryAssets, Feed, and Search (SearchAllResources, SearchAllIamPolicies) APIs.

• Service Management API
  • servicemanagement.googleapis.com/Service

Compute Engine

Feature

Generally available: You can create instant and standard snapshots from Hyperdisk volumes in multi-writer mode. You can also clone Hyperdisk volumes in multi-writer mode.

For more information, see Share disks between instances.

Contact Center AI Insights

Feature

Quality AI offers multiple scorecards in preview. With multiple scorecards, Quality AI can evaluate a single conversation against different criteria and provide multiple conversation scores. You can also choose which scorecard data to view on each page of the console.

Gemini Code Assist

Changed

Improved code completion speed

VS Code Gemini Code Assist 2.41.0

Code completion suggestion speed is improved with VS Code Extension 2.41.0.

SAP on Google Cloud

Announcement

New SAP certification for operating system: SLES 15 SP7 for SAP

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP7 for SAP.

For more information, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

Source: Google Cloud Platform