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Save more on cross-cloud data access

Google Cloud adds Lakehouse caching for cross-cloud data access and BigQuery observability for data agents.

Google Cloud made cross-cloud Lakehouse caching generally available, letting customers cache remote files in-region.

That can reduce cross-cloud egress costs and speed up repeated queries, which makes it especially relevant for teams moving data between environments.

Tune AlloyDB workloads with more help from AI

Google Cloud AlloyDB adds AI query tuning and broader model support.

AlloyDB added AI-powered SQL tuning and expanded pre-registered Gemini model support, including a new default model in the google_ml_integration extension.

These changes may improve workload efficiency and database performance, which can support lower spend through better query tuning and model selection.

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