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GCP – Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6
We’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our C4 virtual machine series, with the general availability of 28 powerful new shapes. This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen Titanium Local SSD, C4 bare metal instances, and new extra-large shapes, all powered by the latest Intel Xeon 6 processors, Granite Rapids. We’re excited to […]
GCP – Announcing a complete developer toolkit for scaling A2A agents on Google Cloud
AI is evolving beyond single, task-specific agents into an interconnected ecosystem, where autonomous agents collaborate to solve complex problems, regardless of their underlying platform. To make this transition easier for developers, we are announcing a comprehensive suite of tools that will empower developers to build, deploy, evaluate, and sell Agent2Agent (A2A) agents with Google Cloud. […]
GCP – A deep dive into code reviews with Gemini Code Assist in GitHub
Imagine a code review process that doesn’t slow you down. Instead of a queue of pending pull requests, you have an intelligent assistant that provides a near-instant, comprehensive summary of every change. It flags potential bugs, suggests improvements based on best practices, and frees up your human reviewers to focus on the complex architectural decisions […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s commitment to EU AI Act support
Google Cloud is committed to being a trusted partner for customers who are navigating AI regulations in Europe. We have long understood that this requires a proactive and collaborative approach in order to ensure Europeans can access secure, first-rate AI tools as they become available. This week, Google announced that we intend to sign the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M7i, R7i and X2idn instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle has expanded its instance offerings in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The M7i and R7i instances, which support a maximum instance size of 48xlarge, are Intel-based offerings delivering 50% more vCPU and memory compared to M6i and R6i instance types. The X2idn instances are optimized for memory-intensive workloads […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus increases default active series limit to 50M per workspace
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now offers a higher default limit of 50M active time series per workspace, up from 10M. This increase eliminates the need for limit increase requests up to 50M series. Customers can still request limit increases for up to 1 billion active series per workspace. An Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a maximum storage limit of 256 TiB, doubling the previous limit of 128 TiB. This enhancement allows customers to store and manage even larger datasets within a single Aurora database cluster simplifying data management for large-scale applications and supporting the growing data needs of modern applications. Customers only pay […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Going beyond 2FA to address fast-rising, emerging threats
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2025. Today, Andy Wen, director, product management, Workspace Security, discusses new efforts we’re making to defend against identity-based cyberattacks. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d […]
GCP – Ride-share-like planning with Agentic AI: Pluto7 + Google Agentspace transform supply Chains
Pluto7, an early Google partner, has integrated Agentspace into its Planning in a Box platform Pi Agent to address inventory and demand planning challenges. Agentspace provides an Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building specialized agents and an A2A (Agent-to-Agent) communication protocol for agent collaboration. These tools facilitate a shift from static workflows to dynamic, adaptive […]
GCP – Top 25 blogs of 2025… so far
Six months into 2025, we’ve already published hundreds of posts here on the Google Cloud blog. We asked ourselves, why wait until the busy end of the year to review your favorites? With everything from new AI models, product launches, emerging cyber threats, company news, certifications and customer stories, here is a mid-year recap that […]