What's new in the Architecture Center

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September 21, 2025

Feature

(New guide) RAG infrastructure for generative AI applications in Google Cloud: Provides a list of reference architectures to deploy a generative AI applications with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in Google Cloud.

September 16, 2025

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(New guide) Multi-agent AI system in Google Cloud: A reference architecture to help you design robust multi-agent AI systems in Google Cloud.

June 02, 2025

Feature

(New guide) Optimize AI and ML workloads with Google Cloud Managed Lustre: Shows how to use Managed Lustre to optimize the performance of AI and ML workloads.

May 30, 2025

Change

Patterns for connecting other cloud service providers with Google Cloud: Added Network Connectivity Center and Hybrid NAT where relevant. Updated VPN references to only refer to HA VPN.

February 07, 2025

Change

Google Cloud Architecture Framework: Security, privacy, and compliance: Major update to align the recommendations with core principles of security.

January 31, 2025

Change

Cross-Cloud Network for distributed applications: Updates to the document set to reflect feature releases over the past months.

September 17, 2024

Feature

(New guide) Scalable BigQuery backup automation: Build a solution to automate recurrent BigQuery backup operations at scale, with two backup methods: BigQuery snapshots and exports to Cloud Storage. This architecture is accompanied by a deployment guide.

June 30, 2024

Feature

(New guide) From edge to multi-cluster mesh: Deploy globally distributed applications through GKE Gateway and Cloud Service Mesh: Provides the steps needed to deploy applications externally through Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Gateways running on multiple GKE clusters within a service mesh.

January 31, 2024

Feature

(New guide) Regional deployment on Compute Engine: Architect a multi-tier application that runs on Compute Engine VMs in multiple zones within a Google Cloud region.

December 20, 2023

Change

File storage on Compute Engine: Changed Filestore High Scale to Zonal, updated Filestore Zonal support for the CSI Driver, added Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and removed NetApp Cloud Volume Service.

October 09, 2023

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Best practices for running tightly coupled HPC applications: Updated to include guidance for H3 compute-optimized VMs.

September 12, 2023

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Stream logs from Google Cloud to Splunk: Converted the Google Cloud-to-Splunk logging guide into a reference architecture that includes design considerations.

August 28, 2023

Change

Google Cloud Architecture Framework: AI/ML: Updated the list of AI and ML services in the System Design category.