BigQuery
Announcement
Starting August 11, 2026, the billing label for the BigQuery Data Transfer
Service SKU will be updated from goog-bq-feature-type: DATA_TRANSFER_SERVICE
(uppercase) to goog-bq-feature-type: data_transfer_service (lowercase) to
provide a more unified and complete view of your costs. This update expands the
scope of the label to cover all costs associated with the BigQuery Data Transfer
Service, including data transfer orchestration, data load operations, and data
merge operations.
To ensure uninterrupted cost visibility, update your billing exports, dashboards, and reporting queries to include both these labels.
Cloud Workstations
Feature
You can configure a workstation authorization URL for workstation clusters.
When you specify an authorization URL, unauthorized HTTP or HTTPS requests received by workstation VMs in the cluster are redirected to this endpoint. The endpoint is then responsible for retrieving an access token and redirecting back to the original hostname with the token.
Gemini
Other
Bug fixes in VS Code
Various bug fixes and minor product enhancements.
Gemini Enterprise
Feature
Gemini Enterprise: Box data store using data federation
Connecting a Box data source with Gemini Enterprise using data federation is generally available (GA).
For more information, see Set up a Box data store.
Identity and Access Management
Feature
You can use the IAM recommender to remediate excessive permissions for Google groups by transitioning from permanent role bindings to temporary, on-demand entitlements in Privileged Access Manager (PAM). This feature is in Preview.
To learn how to remediate excessive permissions, see Remediate excessive permissions with Privileged Access Manager.
Looker
Announcement
Dataplex Universal Catalog is now called Knowledge Catalog. The API, client library, CLI, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) names remain unchanged. For more information, see Knowledge Catalog overview.
Policy Controller
Change
Policy Controller version 1.23.2 is now available.
Policy Intelligence
Feature
You can use the IAM recommender to remediate excessive permissions for Google groups by transitioning from permanent role bindings to temporary, on-demand entitlements in Privileged Access Manager (PAM). This feature is in Preview.
To learn how to remediate excessive permissions, see Remediate excessive permissions with Privileged Access Manager.
Storage Transfer Service
Feature
Storage Transfer Service now supports AWS GovCloud (US) regions, including
us-gov-east-1 and us-gov-west-1. You can now transfer data from Amazon S3
buckets located in GovCloud regions using both batch and event-driven
transfers.
For more information, see Configure access to a source: Amazon S3 and Event-driven transfers from AWS S3.
Source: Google Cloud Platform
