Access Approval
Feature
The new access insights feature is generally available (GA), allowing you to generate and download a single, filtered, organization-wide report of Google administrative access to your data.
App Hub
Feature
App Hub is now available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region, letting you create applications and register resources from an expanded list of locations.
To learn more about the differences between global and regional applications, see Global and regional applications. For a complete list of all available App Hub locations, see App Hub locations.
Backup and DR
Feature
Cloud SQL enhanced backups are now generally available (GA). With enhanced backups, backups are managed and stored in a centralized backup management project that leverages Backup and DR service to provide enforced retention, granular scheduling, and longer retention. Enhanced backups now also support point-in-time-recovery (PITR) after instance deletion.
For more information about the available options and their limitations, see Backup options.
For more information about enhanced backups pricing, see Backup and DR pricing.
BigQuery
Feature
The BigQuery Data Transfer Service can now transfer data from Oracle to BigQuery. This feature is generally available (GA).
Cloud Hub
Announcement
Cloud Hub is generally available.
Cloud Monitoring
Other
On December 15, 2025, it was announced that your Application Monitoring dashboards will display the trace spans that are associated with your registered App Hub applications. Those dashboards don’t display trace data. To view your trace data, use the Trace Explorer page.
Cloud SQL for MySQL
Feature
Cloud SQL enhanced backups are now generally available (GA).
With enhanced backups, backups are managed and stored in a centralized backup management project that leverages the Backup and DR service, and provides enforced retention, granular scheduling, and longer retention.
Enhanced backups now also support point-in-time-recovery (PITR) after instance deletion.
For more information about the available options and their limitations, see Backup options. For more information about enhanced backups pricing, see Backup and DR pricing.
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Feature
Cloud SQL enhanced backups are now generally available (GA).
With enhanced backups, backups are managed and stored in a centralized backup management project that leverages the Backup and DR service, and provides enforced retention, granular scheduling, and longer retention.
Enhanced backups now also support point-in-time-recovery (PITR) after instance deletion.
For more information about the available options and their limitations, see Backup options. For more information about enhanced backups pricing, see Backup and DR pricing.
Cloud SQL for SQL Server
Feature
Cloud SQL enhanced backups are now generally available (GA).
With enhanced backups, backups are managed and stored in a centralized backup management project that leverages the Backup and DR service, and provides enforced retention, granular scheduling, and longer retention.
Enhanced backups now also support point-in-time-recovery (PITR) after instance deletion.
For more information about the available options and their limitations, see Backup options. For more information about enhanced backups pricing, see Backup and DR pricing.
Cloud Storage
Feature
You can now use Anywhere Cache to serve data for object read requests issued by BigQuery to accelerate data reads for your applications. For more information, see Using Anywhere Cache to accelerate reads for BigQuery.
Feature
You can now generate Storage Insights datasets for activity data to receive insights about object mutations, errors, and activity trends across projects, buckets, and regions. For more information, see Dataset schema for activity data tables.
Compute Engine
Feature
Sole-tenancy is now supported for the following GPU machine types:
- A2 Ultra, A2 Mega, and A2 High machine types.
You can provision sole-tenant nodes using the following node types:
a2-ultragpu-node-96-1360-lssda2-megagpu-node-96-1360a2-highgpu-node-96-680
- A3 Mega and A3 High machine types.
You can provision sole-tenant nodes using the following node types:
a3-megagpu-node-208-1872-lssda3-highgpu-node-208-1872-lssd
For more information, see Sole-tenant nodes.
Dataform
Feature
Strict act-as mode
for Dataform is now
generally available
(GA). This feature enhances security by requiring users to have the
iam.serviceAccounts.actAs permission on the service account used to run
workflows, ensuring a more secure and predictable permissions model for your
Dataform projects.
Gemini
Fixed
VS Code model selection issue fixed as of version 2.63.1
The model selection issue affecting free tier customers using Gemini Code Assist releases 2.56 and later is fixed as of version 2.63.1.
Fixed
VS Code model selection issue fixed as of version 2.63.1
The model selection issue affecting free tier customers using Gemini Code Assist releases 2.56 and later is fixed as of version 2.63.1.
Generative AI on Vertex AI
Changed
Vertex AI Agent Engine
Vertex AI Agent Engine is now available in the following regions:
europe-west6(Zurich)europe-west8(Milan)asia-east2(Hong Kong)asia-northeast3(Seoul)asia-southeast2(Jakarta)northamerica-northeast2(Toronto)southamerica-east1(São Paulo)
For more information, see Vertex AI Agent Builder locations.
Announcement
Vertex AI Agent Engine
Vertex AI Agent Engine Sessions and Memory Bank are now Generally Available.
Changed
Updated pricing for Vertex AI Agent Engine:
Pricing for Vertex AI Agent Engine Runtime was lowered.
On January 28, 2026, Sessions, Memory Bank, and Code Execution will begin charging for usage.
For more information, see Pricing.
Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service
Announcement
Google Cloud CCaaS 3.43.144 patch
This patch does the following:
Fixes an issue where chats routed using Deltacast didn’t auto answer.
Fixes an issue where virtual agents weren’t playing a welcome message when connected to a caller.
Fixes an issue that occurred when an agent put a caller on hold and then transferred the call to a different agent. When the call was transferred, the caller was taken off hold, but the agent adapter mistakenly indicated that the caller was still on hold.
Fixes an issue where the transfer restriction settings in a queue sometimes disappeared.
Network Connectivity Center
Feature
Network Connectivity Center supports site-to-site data transfer in the following countries:
- Brazil
- Indonesia
- South Africa
Security Command Center
Feature
The following Container Threat Detection detectors have been released to General Availability:
Command and Control: Piped Encoded Code Execution DetectedCommand and Control: Piped Encoded Download
Vertex AI Agent Builder
Changed
Vertex AI Agent Engine
Vertex AI Agent Engine is now available in the following regions:
europe-west6(Zurich)europe-west8(Milan)asia-east2(Hong Kong)asia-northeast3(Seoul)asia-southeast2(Jakarta)northamerica-northeast2(Toronto)southamerica-east1(São Paulo)
For more information, see Vertex AI Agent Builder locations.
Announcement
Vertex AI Agent Engine
Vertex AI Agent Engine Sessions and Memory Bank are now Generally Available.
Changed
Updated pricing for Vertex AI Agent Engine:
Pricing for Vertex AI Agent Engine Runtime was lowered.
On January 28, 2026, Sessions, Memory Bank, and Code Execution will begin charging for usage.
For more information, see Pricing.
Vertex AI Search
Feature
Vertex AI Search: Filter searches by document-level relevance (Public Preview)
When searching in your Vertex AI Search app, you can specify document-level relevance filters so that only the documents that meet the filter threshold are returned as results.
You can specify either the relevance threshold or semantic-relevance threshold to filter documents by relevance based on keyword and semantic search similarity.
This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Filter searches by document-level relevance.
Source: Google Cloud Platform
