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Google and DDN unveiled a 10x throughput jump for Managed Lustre at Cloud Next 2026, adding a $0.06/GB-month Dynamic tier and showing 75% inference gains via KV-cache sharing.
Google announced a downloadable edition of Cloud Spanner that runs on-premises, on rival clouds, or on a laptop, dismantling a dependency on proprietary infrastructure that its engineers once thought impossible to remove.
Google Cloud Run Worker Pools hit general availability on April 14, 2026, shipping with Blackwell GPU support and CREMA, an open-source KEDA-based autoscaler for queue-driven workloads.
Mira Murati's startup expands its Google Cloud relationship with a non-exclusive multibillion-dollar deal centered on GB300 systems and reinforcement-learning workloads behind its Tinker fine-tuning API.
At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.
AWS moved its cross-cloud private networking service to general availability on April 14, turning a preview into production and a bilateral deal into what analysts are calling a de facto standard.
The third Iceberg Summit in San Francisco brought 70+ sessions and announcements from Snowflake, Google, Dremio, Databricks, and AWS as the open table format's V3 specification reaches production readiness.
IBM Research, Red Hat, and Google Cloud donated llm-d, a Kubernetes-native LLM inference framework, to the CNCF as a sandbox project at KubeCon Europe 2026, backed by NVIDIA, CoreWeave, AMD, and other partners.
Google Cloud now accepts OTLP-format metrics in Cloud Monitoring and offers a fully managed OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline for GKE, joining a broader industry shift toward vendor-neutral observability driven by open standards.
Google completed its all-cash acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz on March 11, clearing regulatory reviews in seven jurisdictions and reshaping the competitive landscape for independent cybersecurity vendors.