BigQuery
Change
Effective June 1, 2026, BigQuery will limit legacy SQL use. This depends on whether your organization or project uses it from November 1, 2025, to June 1, 2026. If you don’t use legacy SQL during this time, you won’t be able to use it after June 1, 2026. If you do use it, your existing workloads will keep running, but new ones might not. For more information, see Legacy SQL feature availability.
Cloud NGFW
Feature
You can use network contexts to meet your security goals by using fewer firewall policy rules more efficiently. For more information, see Network contexts. This feature is available in General Availability.
Google SecOps
Feature
Added support for Google Cloud VPC Service Controls
This feature is currently in Preview.
VPC Service Controls helps protect against accidental or targeted action by external entities or insider entities, which helps to minimize unwarranted data exfiltration risks from Google Cloud services. You can use VPC Service Controls to create perimeters that protect the resources and data of services that you explicitly specify. For more information, see Overview of VPC Service Controls.
Google SecOps SIEM
Feature
Added support for Google Cloud VPC Service Controls
This feature is currently in Preview.
VPC Service Controls helps protect against accidental or targeted action by external entities or insider entities, which helps to minimize unwarranted data exfiltration risks from Google Cloud services. You can use VPC Service Controls to create perimeters that protect the resources and data of services that you explicitly specify. For more information, see Overview of VPC Service Controls.
Feature
Added support for Google Cloud VPC Service Controls
This feature is currently in Preview.
VPC Service Controls helps protect against accidental or targeted action by external entities or insider entities, which helps to minimize unwarranted data exfiltration risks from Google Cloud services. You can use VPC Service Controls to create perimeters that protect the resources and data of services that you explicitly specify. For more information, see Overview of VPC Service Controls.
NetApp Volumes
Feature
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports Flex Unified File service level with both NFS and SMB protocols in Preview. For more information, see Key features.
Feature
The block storage with iSCSI protocol is generally available for the Flex Unified service level. For more information, see Block storage.
Feature
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports a new operational mode for Flex Unified pools in Preview. ONTAP-mode provides direct API access to the underlying ONTAP cluster, and supports both file and block volumes, and large volume pools. For more information about managing different features, see About ONTAP-mode.
Feature
The Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for backup feature is generally available for Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels, and in Preview for the Flex Unified service level. For more information, see Backup encryption with CMEK.
Feature
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports Flex Unified large volumes in Preview, a file-only solution with NFS and SMB protocols for massive datasets. This option allows storage pools up to 20 PiB, and delivers up to 22 GiBps throughput and 750,000 IOPS. For more information, see Key features.
Network Intelligence Center
Feature
The following features are available in Connectivity Tests:
Source IP type selection: you can select a specific source IP address type when creating a connectivity test in the Google Cloud console.
Options include: an internal IP address in a VPC network; an internal IP address outside of Google Cloud; an external IP address; or automatic source detection that evaluates all possible paths.
New network type: the Network Management API includes the
INTERNETnetwork type, which maps to the External IP address source IP type in the Google Cloud console.Your own IP address as the source: you can select your user IP address as the source IP address for a connectivity test in the Google Cloud console.
Automatic VPC network detection: for destination IP addresses within Google Cloud, Connectivity Tests automatically detects the destination VPC network. You no longer need to select it manually.
Spanner
Feature
Spanner supports the following:
- Monitor the usage of Enterprise edition and Enterprise Plus edition features in your Spanner instance.
- Downgrade the instance’s edition using the Google Cloud console.
- Verify edition compatibility when restoring from a backup. If the database uses higher-tier features, you must restore the backup to a destination instance that uses the same or a higher-tier edition.
- Set custom edition constraints within your organization policies, limiting the edition of your instance that your users can create.
Feature
Spanner supports the following managed autoscaler features:
- Autoscaling based on total CPU utilization target. When an instance’s total CPU utilization exceeds or falls below the target that you have set, Spanner adds or removes compute capacity.
- Autoscaling for instance partitions (in Preview).
For more information, see Managed autoscaler.
VPC Service Controls
Feature
Preview stage support for the following integration:
Source: Google Cloud Platform
