Google Cloud Update

Google Cloud highlights new hybrid-cloud AI guidance, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connect for BigQuery, and Google Cloud Cortex Framework version 7 GA. It also introduces Apigee AI Gateway guidance for governance, security, and token-cost control.

• Apigee AI Gateway guidance addresses prompt injection, runtime security quotas, and centralized governance for model traffic.
• MCP tool interaction guidance recommends using Apigee to reduce security blind spots and enforce granular tool filtering.

• SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connect for BigQuery is now generally available, enabling zero-copy, bi-directional data sharing between SAP systems and BigQuery.
• Google Cloud Cortex Framework version 7 is now generally available for AI agent-ready data architecture and SAP-sourced data products.
• Apigee AI Gateway guidance shows how to centrally govern enterprise AI traffic, log token usage, and apply runtime quotas.
• A new architectural guide describes a Cloud Run and Cloud Tasks pattern to smooth traffic spikes and maximize Provisioned Throughput utilization.

• Google Distributed Cloud guidance covers connected or air-gapped model deployment for running AI within secure environments.
• The Cortex Framework integrates with BigQuery, Dataform, Knowledge Catalog, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
• The Apigee roadmap recommends semantic cache, prompt protection policies, and MCP-based tool productization.
• The traffic-shaping pattern uses Cloud Run and Google Cloud Tasks to decouple request ingestion from execution.

Product Information

Vendor: Google

Product: Cloud

Product type: Other

Platform: Web

Vendor release date: Aug 8, 2026

Original release notes: View on vendor site

Published on updatealert.io: Aug 8, 2026

Description: Cloud platform for compute, data, networking, and developer services.