Cloud Computing

Real-world success with Spanner’s fully interoperable multi-model database

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In the first post on the power of multi-model databases to lay the foundations for gen AI, we highlighted how Google Cloud Spanner helps organizations overcome some  of the challenges presented by traditional approaches to database architecture and management. In this post, we dive deeper on the specific examples, across four common use cases.  We […]

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Uplevel your workload scaling performance with GKE active buffer

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In dynamic cloud environments, unexpected traffic spikes or scheduled scaling events can easily strain user workloads. Whether you’re running a retail application during a flash sale or a gaming platform during peak player activity, your business-critical workloads need to scale up quickly and smoothly to handle new load. In fact, having compute capacity that is

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How AI-powered tools are driving the next wave of sustainable infrastructure and reporting

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As generative AI continues to scale, a shift is occurring at the  intersection of sustainability and technology.  For years, reporting teams were bogged down by scattered data and labor-intensive documentation, leaving little space for strategic sustainability work.  But for those now adopting AI, they’re spending less time trying to answer for the impact of last

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North Korea-Nexus Threat Actor Compromises Widely Used Axios NPM Package in Supply Chain Attack

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Written by: Austin Larsen, Dima Lenz, Adrian Hernandez, Tyler McLellan, Christopher Gardner, Ashley Zaya, Michael Rudden Introduction  Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is tracking an active software supply chain attack targeting the popular Node Package Manager (NPM) package “axios.” Between March 31, 2026, 00:21 and 03:20 UTC, an attacker introduced a malicious dependency named “plain-crypto-js“

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Multi-Agent Architecture and Long-Term Memory with ADK, MCP, and Cloud Run

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In support of our mission to accelerate the developer journey on Google Cloud, we built Dev Signal—a multi-agent system designed to transform raw community signals into reliable technical guidance by automating the path from discovery to expert creation In the first part of this series for the Dev Signal, we laid the essential groundwork for this

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How can you test your code when you don’t know what’s in it?

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Ryan hosts SmartBear’s VP of AI and Architecture Fitz Nowlan to explore how we’re moving away from old assumptions about software development, the challenges of testing MCP servers as LLM-driven agents introduce non-determinism that breaks tradition, and how data locality and data construction are becoming more valuable when source code is so easy to generate.

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: RSAC ’26: AI, security, and the workforce of the future

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Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2026. Today, Nick Godfrey details his conversation with Francis deSouza at RSA Conference, and how it’s part of our approach to bold and responsible AI use. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re

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How ID.me Scaled to 145M Users While Reducing Operational Risk

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Editor’s note: ID.me is transforming digital identity security, proving that establishing your identity can be easy. What’s more, their platform has scaled to support 160 million members and can support up to 40,000 users per minute.To support services like tax filing that require massive scale and power real-time AI, the team migrated 50 terabytes of

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How Aigen transformed agricultural robotics for sustainable farming with Amazon SageMaker AI

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This post is cowritten with Yuri Brigance, and Usman M. Khan from Aigen. Aigen builds autonomous robots designed to help farmers remove herbicide-resistant weeds and improve crop yield through AI-driven technology. These robots operate without chemicals, using renewable energy, and provide real-time, field-level data to enhance decision-making. Using advanced computer vision AI, Aigen’s robots autonomously

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Upgrading AWS CLI From v1 to v2 Using the Migration Tool

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Upgrading from AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v1 to AWS CLI v2 brings valuable improvements, but requires attention to several changes that may affect your existing workflows, such as failing commands, or misconfiguration. The AWS CLI v1-to-v2 Migration Tool helps you identify and resolve issues before upgrading, making transition easier. It analyzes bash scripts

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