What’s new with Google Data Cloud

2026-03-26

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by The Google Cloud Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams

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Google Data Cloud recaps weekly product updates spanning databases, analytics, and AI integrations from January to March 2026.

•Cloud SQL now supports autoscaling read pools, enabling dynamic read capacity via a single endpoint based on real-time demand.
•BigQuery's Gemini assistant was upgraded to a fully context-aware analytics partner, not just a code assistant.
•Managed and remote MCP support was introduced for AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore to power next-gen AI agents.
•Conversational Analytics in BigQuery lets users query data using natural language, generating answers as text, tables, and charts.
•Firestore was reimagined with pipeline operations, adding 100+ query features, index-less queries, and new index types for Enterprise edition.

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