Apigee X
Announcement
On March 19th, 2026, we began maintenance updates of Apigee instances configured for maintenance windows.
If you set a preferred window for maintenance for your instance, and your instance version is below 1-16-0-apigee-6, your instance will be updated to 1-16-0-apigee-6 within the next seven to 21 days. A notification containing the expected date of upgrade will be sent within the next two business days.
For more information on participating in scheduled maintenance windows, see Maintenance overview and Manage Apigee instance maintenance windows.
BigQuery
Feature
You can now use a custom organization policy to allow or deny specific operations on routines. This feature is in preview.
Cloud Trace
Feature
Google Cloud Observability has expanded the supported locations for observability buckets, which store your trace data, to include the following:
- africa-south1
- asia-east1
- asia-east2
- asia-northeast2
- asia-northeast3
- asia-south1
- asia-south2
- asia-southeast2
- asia-southeast3
- australia-southeast2
- europe-north2
- europe-west1
- europe-west4
- europe-west6
- europe-west8
- me-central1
- northamerica-northeast2
- northamerica-south1
- southamerica-west1
- us-east5
- us-south1
- us-west2
- us-west3
For a list of supported locations, see Locations for observability buckets.
Feature
You can create alerting policies that monitor the results of your SQL queries. For more information, see Monitor your SQL query results with an alerting policy. This feature is in public preview.
Compute Engine
Breaking
Changed: The following operations on the boot disk of a Compute Engine instance
that has a service account attached require the iam.serviceAccounts.actAs permission
on the service account. In the following list, the boot disk of such an instance is
referred to as the source disk.
- Creating a standard or archive snapshot of the source disk, including application consistent snapshots
- Cloning the source disk
- Creating a machine image of the instance
- Creating a custom image of the source disk
- Starting asynchronous replication of the source disk to another region
- Creating a new disk when you create an instance, if the new disk is created from an instant snapshot of the source disk
If you have already have the Compute Instance Admin (v1)
(roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1) role and the Service Account User (v1)
(roles/iam.serviceAccountUser) role on the project, no action is required.
Otherwise, ask your administrator to grant you the iam.serviceAccounts.actAs
permission on the service account. For instructions, see
Manage access to other resources.
Spanner
Feature
Spanner now offers AI functions, as a part of machine learning functions, that help you perform semantic operations using Large Language Models (LLMs) in SQL to classify, evaluate, and rank your data:
AI.CLASSIFY: Classify a natural language input into user-defined categories.AI.IF: Evaluate a condition described in natural language.AI.SCORE: Rate natural language input and assign it a score.
Source: Google Cloud Platform
