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

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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 -

• Use agent identity with Secret Manager

White papers -

• Firefly: Scalable, Ultra-Accurate Clock Synchronization for Datacenters
• Cloud Infrastructure in the Agent-Native Era

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 -

• Build multi-cluster GKE Inference Gateway, with TPUs , Cloud Storage FUSE and managed DRANET
• Agent Engine (ADK) PSC SWP Integration
• Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 & Gemini 3.1 on Vertex AI with python sdk via Private Service Connect endpoint 

Release notes (All products) -

• Product release notes

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