GCP Updates 2026-10-08 | Cloud Provider News
BigQuery gets smarter chart-based conversational analytics
Google Cloud adds conversational analytics charting improvements in BigQuery. BigQuery conversational analytics now supports chatting with graphs, using multiple graphs, tables, views, and UDFs as data sources. That makes the conversational experience more capable for data exploration.
BigQuery jobs explorer gets better at surfacing workload behavior
Google Cloud brings observability improvements to BigQuery jobs explorer. BigQuery jobs explorer now includes layout and filtering improvements such as status counts, resource grouping, and timeline metric charts. Those changes make the interface easier to scan.
Google Cloud adds 120-second Spot VM preemption notice
Google Cloud adds 120-second Spot VM preemption notice. Google Cloud now lets users specify a 120-second preemption notice duration for Spot VMs. That gives interruption-tolerant workloads more warning before a VM is reclaimed.
Google Cloud expands Hyperdisk Balanced HA on Z3
Google Cloud enables Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability for Z3 machine types. Google Cloud now supports Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability on Z3 machine types with 8 to 44 vCPUs, allowing synchronous replication across two zones. That’s a strong availability upgrade for supported workloads.
Google Cloud broadens Hyperdisk multi-writer support
Google Cloud adds multi-writer support for Hyperdisk Balanced on more machine series. Google Cloud expanded Hyperdisk Balanced multi-writer support to C3 bare metal instances and newer C4 instances, with additional support for Hyperdisk Extreme and Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability on C4. That widens where shared storage can be used.
Google Cloud adds preview support for external IPv6 addresses
Google Cloud Release Notes update on external IPv6 for Standard Tier. Google Cloud added preview support for external IPv6 addresses in Standard Tier for Cloud Load Balancing and Compute Engine. That’s a platform networking enhancement with broad potential reach.
