Cloud Computing

The Agent Development Kit Hackathon with Google Cloud: Announcing the winners and highlights

The Agent Development Kit (ADK) Hackathon is officially wrapped. The hackathon wrapped up with over 10,400 participants from 62 countries, resulting in 477 submitted projects and over 1,500 agents built! Building on the excitement from our initial announcement, the hackathon proved to be an invaluable opportunity for developers to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and build

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From clicks to clusters: Expanding Confidential Computing with Intel TDX

Privacy-protecting Confidential Computing has come a long way since we introduced Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) five years ago. The technology, which can protect data while in use, strengthens a security gap beyond data encryption at rest and in transit.  Since then, customers have used Confidential Computing to protect patient medical data, comply with privacy guidance

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Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg

AI is transforming data into a strategic asset, driving demand for flexible, integrated, and real-time data architectures. But yesterday’s data tools can’t handle AI’s demand for massive volumes of real-time and multi-modal data. Data lakes, for instance, offer flexibility for raw data but lack enforcement and consistency. Meanwhile, traditional data marts, warehouses, and lake architectures

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Simplify complex eventing at Scale with Eventarc Advanced

Modern application development requires organizations to invest not only in scale but also in simplification and central governance. This means more than message routing; it requires a simple, unified messaging platform that can intelligently filter, transform, and govern the flow of information in real-time, taming complexity all in one place. Today, we are excited to

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GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot

The promise of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is the power of Kubernetes with ease of management, including planning and creating clusters, deploying and managing applications, configuring networking, ensuring security, and scaling workloads. However, when it comes to autoscaling workloads, customers tell us the fully managed mode of operation, GKE Autopilot, hasn’t always delivered the speed

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How CISOs and boards can help fight cyber-enabled fraud

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, David Stone and Marina Kaganovich, from our Office of the CISO, talk about the serious risk of cyber-enabled fraud — and how CISOs and boards can help stop it. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the

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