Edition 3 pre NEXT 26: March 2026 - recap
Welcome to the March edition of this monthly newsletter. You will see a concise recap of Google Cloud Networking updates from the aforementioned month. Let’s dive into it.
Up coming events in a few weeks
Cloud NEXT 26 - Session talks library here - Networking
Click on topics you are interested in to see more.
My contributions -
- (Hands-on) Build multi-cluster GKE Inference Gateway, with TPUs , Cloud Storage FUSE and managed DRANET
- Designing private network connectivity for RAG-capable gen AI apps
- Part I : GKE Managed DRANET with TPUs
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 & Gemini 3.1 on Vertex AI with python sdk via Private Service Connect endpoint
Products in General Availability (GA) -
- GKE Utilization-Based Balancing (UBB) based on custom metrics
- Cloud NGFW Network Contexts Support Network contexts help you meet your security goals by using fewer firewall policy rules more efficiently.
- Configure IAP for Cloud Run enable IAP on Cloudf Run with a single click
- 400 Gbps attachments for Dedicated and Cross-Cloud Interconnect
- Private Service Connect: Update target service
- Assign additional subnets to a VPC-native cluster
- Connectivity test features
Product in Public Preview -
- Automate cross-regional failover with Cloud Run service health
- Multiple network interfaces in the same VPC network
- Backend Cloud Storage buckets are available for regional external, regional internal, and cross-region internal Application Load Balancers in a Shared VPC environment.
Google Cloud YouTube -
White papers -
Blogs -
- Designing private network connectivity for RAG-capable gen AI apps
- The AI-native core: Highly resilient telco architecture using Google Kubernetes Engine
- Introducing multi-cluster GKE Inference Gateway
- Mastering WebSocket load balancing on Google Cloud with IN-FLIGHT mode
- Simplify your Cloud Run security with Identity Aware Proxy (IAP)
- [Public Preview] Mastering WebSocket load balancing on Google Cloud with IN-FLIGHT mode
- A guide to Dynamic Forwarding in Cloud Load Balancing
- A new era of Kubernetes device management with Dynamic Resource Allocation
- Envoy: A Future-Ready Foundation for Agentic AI Networking
Hands-on labs -
Release notes (All products) -
Hiring (Read details in the linked post)
- Solution Architect III, Platform, Telecommunications, Google Cloud
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud AI
- Global Hardware Reliability Engineering team
- Networking Infrastructure organization (Google Global Infrastructure)
- Senior Software Engineer, Linux Kernel Networking
- Technical Success Account Manager, Google Cloud Consulting
- Customer Engineer, Platform, SLED, Google Public Sector