GCP Release Notes: August 05, 2025

Cloud Load Balancing

Feature

Cross-region internal Application Load Balancers can now route requests for static content to Cloud Storage buckets.

For more information, see Set up a cross-region internal Application Load Balancer with Cloud Storage buckets.

This capability is now in General Availability.

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

You can now use the time_series_billed_for_queries_count
metric to estimate charges based on the number of time series that have been
queried. For more information, see View the number of time series billed
for queries.

Billing by time series queried isn’t enforced until October 2, 2025. For
more information, see Cloud Monitoring pricing summary.

Cloud Run

Feature

Support for manually scaling your Cloud Run service is now at General Availability (GA).

Compute Engine

Feature

For Hyperdisk Throughput, the maximum IOPS for a single volume has increased from 600 MiB/s to 2,400 MiB/s. The maximum IOPS for a single volume has increased from 2,400 IOPS to 9,600 IOPS. Hyperdisk Throughput volumes are designed for cost-sensitive workloads, analytics workloads, and workloads that have sequential I/O and large block sizes. For more information, see About Hyperdisk Throughput.

Feature

Generally Available: The storage-optimized Z3 machine series offers a bare metal (z3-highmem-192-highlssd-metal) machine type with 192 vCPUs, 1,536 GB of memory, and 72 TiB of Local SSD storage.

Bare metal instances let you create an instance with direct access to the machine’s CPU and memory, without a virtualization layer in the middle. Z3 uses Titanium to deliver more compute and memory resources for your workloads by offloading network and I/O processing from the host hardware. To learn more, see Z3 machine series. For information about bare metal instances, including regional availability, see Bare metal instances on Compute Engine.

Deprecated

The Compute Engine feature that deploys containers on VMs during VM creation is deprecated. For more information about the alternative solutions for running containers on VMs and MIGs, see Compute Engine container startup agent deprecation.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Feature

The M4 machine series is generally available in GKE Standard clusters.

Feature

The M4 machine series is generally available in GKE Standard clusters.

Fixed

 

A fix is available for an issue in which the Compute Engine Persistent Disk CSI
driver failed with an invalid cpuString error on GKE nodes that used custom
machine types. This issue prevented successful attachment and mounting of
Persistent Disk volumes on affected nodes. The fix is available in the following
GKE versions:

• 1.31.10-gke.1034000 and later
• 1.32.4-gke.1698000 and later
• 1.33.1-gke.1386000 and later

Source: Google Cloud Platform