Get your weekly deep dive into what's new and exciting in Google Cloud! This week, we cover a groundbreaking Gemini TTS AI announcement, powerful updates for Cloud Spanner and BigQuery (including new Gemini integration!), essential new features for Cloud Run and Cloud DNS, and a critical heads-up on a breaking change for Sensitive Data Protection. Stay current with all the latest cloud technology!
This week, Gemini comes to the command line! Get the scoop on the massive expansion of agentic CLI experiences for BigQuery, Spanner, and more.
Plus, we cover major General Availability announcements for Spanner, Cloud SQL, and new performance boosters for networking and databases.
Finally, a look into the future with post-quantum cryptography in Cloud KMS.
This week's Google Cloud Update, for the week of September 15, 2025, covers major new features and updates across various Google Cloud services. The episode highlights the version refresh for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google Distributed Cloud for VMware. It also covers a slew of new features for BigQuery, including time travel for Iceberg tables and Gemini-powered SQL code completion. Additionally, the podcast announces the general availability of Spanner's Cassandra interface and schema-less graph support. Other updates include new features in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Security Command Center, Cloud Armor, and IAM, as well as a roundup of client library updates for various programming languages. The episode concludes with a brief mention of updates to storage, observability, and developer tools.
This week's Google Cloud Update, covering releases from September 8th through the 12th, 2025, is packed with news. We've got major database updates for Cloud SQL, a boatload of new features for BigQuery including new Gemini-powered capabilities, and important security bulletins, including a high-severity GKE vulnerability you'll want to patch. Plus, we'll dive into what's new for Cloud Run, Dataproc, and Dataflow, as well as platform-wide improvements for managing your projects. Finally, we'll wrap up with the latest GKE version updates and new releases for the Google Go and Node.js libraries.
This week: Kubernetes 1.34 lands in GKE with game-changing features. We explore powerful new AI embedding models in BigQuery, the arrival of serverless GPUs in Cloud Run, and major database upgrades for Cloud SQL and Spanner. Don't miss the biggest Google Cloud updates from the first week of September
