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Google Cloud Releases Official Rust SDK for Developers

🚀 Google Cloud has released an official Rust SDK that provides idiomatic, supported access to more than 140 Google Cloud APIs. The SDK includes built-in authentication (ADC, OAuth2, API Keys, service accounts, and upcoming Workload Identity Federation), documentation, and code samples to streamline development. It targets high-performance backends, secure data processing, and real-time analytics, and the project is available on crates.io and GitHub for feedback and contributions.

Dataproc Multi-Tenant Clusters for Notebook Workloads

🚀 Google Cloud announced Dataproc multi-tenant clusters to let many data scientists share a single cluster for interactive notebook workloads while preserving per-user authorization. The feature maps individual Google identities to service accounts, externalizes mappings to a YAML file, and supports updates on running clusters. Jupyter kernels launch via the Jupyter Kernel Gateway across worker nodes, with optional Vertex AI Workbench integration and the BigQuery JupyterLab Extension. Administrators retain IAM-based least-privilege control and cluster hardening isolates credentials and OS users.

Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc: Troubleshoot Apache Spark

🛠️ Gemini Cloud Assist Investigations is now in public preview to help troubleshoot Dataproc and Serverless for Apache Spark workloads by automatically analyzing driver and executor logs, Spark UI metrics, configurations, and cross-product telemetry. Accessible from the Google Cloud console and via API, it produces prioritized summaries and clear remediation steps. The tool is tailored to data engineers, data scientists, SREs, and managers to reduce investigation time and accelerate fixes.

Tata Steel Enhances Monitoring with Google Cloud MDE

🏭 Tata Steel implemented a unified manufacturing data foundation on Google Cloud, centralizing OT and IT sources into a Manufacturing Data Engine built on BigQuery. The multi-path ingestion architecture leverages partners such as Litmus and ClearBlade to collect real-time PLC telemetry, while SAP, APIs, and in-house sensors feed batch and staging pipelines. The design emphasizes secure upstaging, partitioned storage with archival to Cloud Storage, and enables predictive maintenance, environmental KPI reporting, and reduced human presence in hazardous areas.

Baseten: improved cost-performance for AI inference

🚀 Baseten reports major cost-performance gains for AI inference by combining Google Cloud A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with Google Cloud’s Dynamic Workload Scheduler. The company cites 225% better cost-performance for high-throughput inference and 25% improvement for latency-sensitive workloads. Baseten pairs cutting-edge hardware with an open, optimized software stack — including TensorRT-LLM, NVIDIA Dynamo, and vLLM — and multi-cloud resilience to deliver scalable, production-ready inference.

StreamSight: AI-Powered Music Royalty Forecasting Tool

🔍 StreamSight is an AI-driven application developed by BMG in partnership with Google Cloud to improve transparency, speed, and accuracy in digital royalty forecasting and anomaly detection. The solution leverages BigQuery ML models (including ARIMA_PLUS and BOOSTED_TREE), uses Vertex AI and Python for training, and surfaces results in Looker Studio dashboards. It flags missing sales periods, rights mismatches, and sudden streaming spikes to reduce manual review and help accelerate fairer payouts. Currently a proof of concept, StreamSight is positioned for broader DSP integrations and richer data inputs to extend its capabilities.

BigQuery Managed Disaster Recovery Adds Soft Failover

🔁 Soft failover in BigQuery Managed Disaster Recovery defers promotion of secondary compute and datasets until replication is confirmed, reducing the risk of data loss during planned disaster recovery tests. Unlike hard failover, which may promote immediately and accept RPO gaps to restore service, soft failover coordinates primary and secondary acquiescence to ensure data integrity. Available via the BigQuery UI, DDL, and CLI, it provides administrators with controlled, realistic DR drills without compromising production data.

Target modernizes search with hybrid AlloyDB AI platform

🔍 Target rebuilt its on-site search to combine lexical keyword matching with semantic vector retrieval, using AlloyDB AI to power filtered vector queries at scale. The engineering team implemented a multi-index architecture and a multi-channel relevance framework so hybrid queries can apply native SQL filters alongside vector similarity. The overhaul produced measurable gains — ~20% improvement in product discovery relevance, halved "no results" occurrences, and large latency reductions — while consolidating the stack and accelerating development.

Cloudflare Mitigates Record 11.5 Tbps UDP Flood Attack

🛡️ Cloudflare said it automatically mitigated a record-setting volumetric DDoS attack that peaked at 11.5 Tbps and reached 5.1 billion packets per second; the UDP flood lasted roughly 35 seconds and reportedly originated largely from Google Cloud. The company reported it has autonomously blocked hundreds of hyper‑volumetric L3/4 attacks in recent weeks, underscoring a sharp surge in such events. Security researchers warn these massive traffic floods can be used as a smoke screen for follow-on targeted exploits.

Agent Development Kit Hackathon: Winners and Highlights

🚀 The Agent Development Kit (ADK) Hackathon concluded with more than 10,400 participants from 62 countries, 477 submitted projects, and 1,500+ agents built. The competition emphasized multi-agent orchestration for automation, data analysis, customer service, and content generation, awarding SalesShortcut the Grand Prize. Regional winners included Energy Agent AI, Edu.AI, GreenOps, and Nexora-AI, and organizers pointed participants to ADK documentation and developer forums while announcing an upcoming GKE hackathon with over $50,000 in prizes.

Cloudflare Blocks Record 11.5 Tbps UDP Flood DDoS Attack

🛡️ Cloudflare says it blocked the largest recorded volumetric DDoS attack, peaking at 11.5 Tbps. The UDP flood, which Cloudflare attributes mainly to traffic originating from Google Cloud, lasted roughly 35 seconds and was part of a broader surge of hyper‑volumetric events. The mitigation highlights Cloudflare's automated scaling and defensive capabilities against short, extremely high‑bandwidth assaults.

Google Cloud: Monthly AI product and security update

🔔 This month Google Cloud expanded its AI stack across models, tooling, and security. Highlights include Gemini 2.5 Flash with native image generation and SynthID watermarking on Vertex AI, new Veo video models, the Gemini CLI, and a global Anthropic Claude endpoint. Google also published 101 gen‑AI blueprints, developer guidance for choosing tools, and security advances for agents and AI workloads.

What's New in Google Data Cloud: August Product Roundup

🔔 This Google Cloud roundup summarizes recent product milestones, GA launches, previews, and integrations across the data analytics, BI, and database portfolio. It highlights updates to BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and adjacent services aimed at easing ingestion, migration, and AI-driven operations. Notable items include MongoDB-compatible Firestore GA, PSC networking improvements for Database Migration Service, and a redesigned BigQuery data ingestion experience. The post also emphasizes resilience and DR enhancements such as immutable backups and Near Zero Downtime maintenance.

DLA Selects Google Public Sector for Cloud Modernization

☁️ Google Public Sector has been awarded a $48 million DLA Enterprise Platform contract to migrate the Defense Logistics Agency to a DoD‑accredited commercial cloud. The multi‑phased program will move key infrastructure and data to a modern, AI‑ready Google Cloud foundation and enable BigQuery, Looker, and Vertex AI analytics. Emphasizing secure‑by‑design infrastructure and Mandiant threat intelligence, the effort aims to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and accelerate AI‑driven logistics and transportation management.

EuroDaT and Google Cloud: Secure Financial Data Exchange

🔒 EuroDaT, a state-owned data trustee, built safeAML with major German banks to enable controlled, pseudonymous transaction matching while preserving GDPR compliance. The cloud-native service runs on Google Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine, using infrastructure-as-code, isolated VPCs and auditable processing so EuroDaT never accesses personal-data content. By letting banks request targeted supplementary information, safeAML accelerates suspicious-activity checks, reduces false positives and lays groundwork for wider use in ESG and health data sharing.

EuroDaT and Google Cloud: Secure Financial Data Exchange

🔐 EuroDaT describes how its safeAML platform, built on Google Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine, enables controlled, pseudonymous exchange of sensitive transaction data between banks. Acting as a neutral data trustee, EuroDaT never accesses personal content while automating secure, auditable workflows that replace error-prone phone calls. Pilots with German banks show faster, more accurate suspicion assessments and lower false positives.

Storage Insights datasets optimize Cloud Storage spend

📊 Storage Insights datasets put object and bucket metadata into a BigQuery-linked dataset that refreshes automatically, enabling detailed analysis of storage spend, distribution, lifecycle and Autoclass usage. Administrators can run SQL queries or use Gemini Cloud Assist for natural-language insights, then feed outputs into serverless batch operations to relocate, transition or delete data at scale. The feature supports organization-, folder-, project- or bucket-scoped datasets with daily updates and up to 90-day retention for operational and FinOps workflows.

Skopeo for Google Cloud: Simplifying Container Workflows

📦 This post describes how Skopeo, a daemonless CLI for container images, can streamline image management with Artifact Registry and Google Cloud CI/CD. It outlines setup steps and five practical workflows—inspect manifests, registry-to-registry copying, listing tags, promoting images, and automated verification. The article also covers security integrations with tools like Cosign and Binary Authorization, and recommends Skopeo for faster, daemonless automation in Cloud Build and related environments.

Firestore Adds MongoDB Compatibility - GA Release Now

🚀 Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is now generally available on Google Cloud. This launch lets developers run existing MongoDB drivers, code, and tools against a MongoDB-compatible API implemented on Firestore's serverless database, combining MongoDB ecosystem compatibility with Firestore’s multi-region replication, strong consistency, and pay-as-you-go pricing. New capabilities include over 200 API and query features (including $lookup and unique indexes), Firestore Studio enhancements, and Eventarc triggers for change data capture. Enterprise functions such as Point-in-Time Recovery, database cloning, and managed export/import support production and compliance workflows.

GKE Turns Ten: New Pricing, Autopilot Enhancements

🎉 Google marks the tenth anniversary of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by simplifying pricing and expanding capabilities. Starting September 2025, GKE moves to a single paid tier, GKE Standard, which includes multi-cluster features such as Fleets, Teams, Config Management, and Policy Controller at no extra cost, with additional capabilities available à la carte. Google is also making Autopilot toggleable per cluster and per workload and promoting a container-optimized compute platform designed to increase efficiency and performance for AI and large-scale services.