Cloud Computing

Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in vision in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms

Google has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms (CAIP) report, and positioned furthest in vision among all vendors evaluated. We believe this report marks a pivotal moment for enterprise leaders, signaling a market shift where having a strong vision is no longer an abstract concept but the

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Now available: Cloud HSM as an encryption key service for Workspace client-side encryption

Organizations in highly-regulated sectors, such as government, defense, financial services, and healthcare, are required to meet stringent standards to safeguard sensitive data. Client-side encryption (CSE) for Google Workspace is a unique, privacy-preserving offering that keeps customer data confidential and enables the customer to be the sole arbiter of their data, helping them adhere to rigorous

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The AI-powered shift to “living games:” Meet the customers and partners leveling up the ways we play

The games industry is on a powerful ride, surging forward with innovation and a sharp focus on the player experience. For years, the industry’s evolution was defined by familiar IPs getting better graphics and gameplay. At Google Cloud, we believe we’re on the cusp of something far more radical — a shift on the scale

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Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms

The promise of platform engineering is to accelerate software delivery by empowering developers with self-service capabilities. However, this must be balanced with security, compliance, and operational stability, and for this, you need robust controls. But all too frequently, people talk about “guardrails” — a term whose meaning is often ambiguous, leading to confusion, or worse,

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Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center

Database Center is an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that can help you identify and address security risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues for Google Cloud databases including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. Today, we are excited to announce that Database Center can now  monitor your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server

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Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies

Managing large model artifacts is a common bottleneck in MLOps. Baking models into container images leads to slow, monolithic deployments, and downloading them at startup introduces significant delays. This guide explores a better way: decoupling your models from your code by hosting them in Cloud Storage and accessing them efficiently from GKE and Cloud Run.

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Announcing multi-subnet support for more scalable GKE clusters

We are pleased to announce the preview of multi-subnet support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. This enhancement removes single-subnet limitations, increasing scalability, optimizing resource utilization, and enhancing flexibility of your GKE clusters. Multi-subnet support for GKE clusters allows you to add additional subnets to an existing GKE cluster, which can then be utilized by

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, our Office of the CISO’s Bob Mechler and Anton Chuvakin dive into the key trends and evolving threats that we tracked in our just-published Cloud Threat Horizons report. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google

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