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  <title>Google Cloud Architecture Center - Release notes</title>
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    <title>October 08, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#October_08_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-10-08T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
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<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/choose-design-pattern-agentic-ai-system">Choose a design pattern for your agentic AI system</a>: Learn how to select an agent design pattern to build your agentic AI system.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>September 22, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#September_22_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-09-22T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#September_22_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/ai-ml/storage-for-ai-ml">Design storage for AI and ML workloads in Google Cloud</a>: Updated storage recommendations for training and serving workflows. Revised the scaling capacity and performance tiers for Managed Lustre.</p>
<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/storage-advisor">Design an optimal storage strategy for your cloud workload</a>: Revised the scaling capacity and performance tiers for Managed Lustre.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>September 21, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#September_21_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-09-21T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#September_21_2025"/>
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<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/rag-reference-architectures">RAG infrastructure for generative AI applications in Google Cloud</a>: Provides a list of reference architectures to deploy a generative AI applications with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in Google Cloud.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>September 17, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#September_17_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-09-17T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#September_17_2025"/>
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<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/ccn-distributed-apps-design/ccn-nva-ra">VPC Network Peering Cross-Cloud Network with NVAs and regional affinity</a>: Describes how to deploy network virtual appliances (NVAs) in a single-region Cross-Cloud Network architecture.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>September 16, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#September_16_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-09-16T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#September_16_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/multiagent-ai-system">Multi-agent AI system in Google Cloud</a>: A reference architecture to help you design robust multi-agent AI systems in Google Cloud.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>September 11, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#September_11_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-09-11T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#September_11_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/rag-genai-agentspace-vertexai">RAG infrastructure for generative AI using Google Agentspace and Vertex AI</a>: Design infrastructure for a generative AI application with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using Google Agentspace and Vertex AI.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>August 25, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#August_25_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-08-25T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#August_25_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/optimize-ai-ml-workloads-cloud-storage-fuse">Optimize AI and ML workloads with Cloud Storage FUSE</a>: Updated Anywhere Cache features for multi-regional deployments.</p>
<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/optimize-ai-ml-workloads-managed-lustre">Optimize AI and ML workloads with Google Cloud Managed Lustre</a>: Revised the storage capacity, scaling capacity, and performance tiers for Managed Lustre. Added link to the Managed Lustre module in the Cluster Toolkit for easy deployment.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>August 21, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#August_21_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-08-21T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#August_21_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/oracle-peoplesoft-with-oci-exadata">Oracle PeopleSoft on Compute Engine with Oracle Exadata</a>: Shows how to build the infrastructure to run Oracle PeopleSoft applications with OCI Exadata databases in Google Cloud.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>August 08, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#August_08_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-08-08T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#August_08_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/security/best-practices-continuous-access-to-google-cloud">Best practices for continuous access to Google Cloud</a>: Describes best practices for using emergency access and IdP failover to ensure continuous access to Google Cloud.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>August 07, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#August_07_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-08-07T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#August_07_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/perspectives/ai-ml/reliability">AI and ML perspective: Reliability</a>: Major update to expand the reliability principles and recommendations in the AI and ML perspective.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>July 28, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#July_28_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-07-28T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#July_28_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/perspectives/fsi">Well-Architected Framework: Financial services industry (FSI) perspective</a>: Principles and recommendations that are specific to FSI, aligned to each pillar of the Architecture Framework.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>July 22, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#July_22_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-07-22T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#July_22_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/secure-apps-resources-using-context-aware-access">Secure apps and resources by using context-aware access</a>: Describes how you can use context-aware access to secure different types of apps and resources.</p>
<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/secure-apps-resources-using-context-aware-access/best-practices">Best practices for securing apps and resources by using context-aware access</a>: Describes best practices for using context-aware access to secure apps and resources.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>July 01, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#July_01_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-07-01T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#July_01_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/gen-ai-graphrag-spanner">GraphRAG infrastructure for generative AI using Vertex AI and Spanner Graph</a>: Shows how to design infrastructure for GraphRAG-capable generative AI applications in Google Cloud by using Vertex AI and Spanner Graph.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>June 02, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#June_02_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-06-02T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#June_02_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/optimize-ai-ml-workloads-managed-lustre">Optimize AI and ML workloads with Google Cloud Managed Lustre</a>: Shows how to use Managed Lustre to optimize the performance of AI and ML workloads.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>May 30, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#May_30_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-05-30T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#May_30_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/patterns-for-connecting-other-csps-with-gcp">Patterns for connecting other cloud service providers with Google Cloud</a>: Added Network Connectivity Center and Hybrid NAT where relevant. Updated VPN references to only refer to HA VPN.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>May 28, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#May_28_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-05-28T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#May_28_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/perspectives/ai-ml/cost-optimization">AI and ML perspective: Cost optimization</a>: Major update to expand the cost optimization recommendations in the AI and ML perspective.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>May 19, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#May_19_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-05-19T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#May_19_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/filers-on-compute-engine">File storage on Compute Engine</a>:</p>
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<li>Added information about Google Cloud Managed Lustre and DDN Infinia.</li>
<li>Updated the protocol specifications for Filestore.</li>
<li>Updated the protocol and performance specifications for NetApp Volumes.</li>
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<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/parallel-file-systems-for-hpc">Parallel file systems for HPC workloads</a>: Added information about Google Cloud Managed Lustre and DDN Infinia.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>May 01, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#May_01_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-05-01T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#May_01_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/storage-advisor">Design an optimal storage strategy for your cloud workload</a>: Added information about Filestore replication, Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability, Anywhere Cache, and capacity specifications for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 30, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_30_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-30T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_30_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/multiregional-vms">Multi-regional deployment on Compute Engine</a>: Technical updates to align design recommendations with Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework core principles.</p>
<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/single-zone-deployment-compute-engine">Single-zone deployment on Compute Engine</a>: Technical updates to align design recommendations with Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework core principles.</p>
<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/deploy-hub-spoke-vpc-network-topology">Hub-and-spoke network architecture</a>: Added <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/deploy-hub-spoke-vpc-network-topology#ncc">Network Connectivity Center</a> as a design option. </p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 28, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_28_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-28T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_28_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/perspectives/ai-ml/operational-excellence">AI and ML perspective: Operational excellence</a>: Major update to expand the operational excellence recommendations in the AI and ML perspective.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 18, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_18_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-18T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_18_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/parallel-file-systems-for-hpc">Parallel file systems for HPC workloads</a>: Added guidance about Google Cloud Managed Lustre.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 17, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_17_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-17T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_17_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/oracle-ebs-on-compute-engine-vm">Oracle E‑Business Suite with Oracle Database on Compute Engine VMs</a>: Shows how to build the infrastructure to run Oracle E‑Business Suite applications with Oracle Database on Compute Engine VMs in Google Cloud.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 11, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_11_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-11T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_11_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/partners/harness-cicd-pipeline-for-rag-app">Harness CI/CD pipeline for RAG applications</a>: Shows how to implement a continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline for a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application in Google Cloud. The architecture uses CI/CD products from Harness to deploy containers to Cloud Run services.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 10, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_10_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_10_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/storage-advisor">Design an optimal storage strategy for your cloud workload</a>: Added guidance about Google Cloud Managed Lustre.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 09, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_09_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-09T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_09_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/ai-ml/storage-for-ai-ml">Design storage for AI and ML workloads in Google Cloud</a>: Updated to include Cloud Storage FUSE, Anywhere Cache, Hyperdisk ML, and Google Cloud Managed Lustre.</p>
<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/optimize-ai-ml-workloads-cloud-storage-fuse">Optimize AI and ML workloads with Cloud Storage FUSE</a>: Learn how to optimize performance for AI and ML workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by using Cloud Storage FUSE.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>April 08, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#April_08_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-04-08T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#April_08_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Feature</h3>
<p>(New guide) <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/oracle-ebs-with-oci-exadata">Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle Exadata in Google Cloud</a>: Shows how to build the infrastructure to run Oracle E-Business Suite applications with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Exadata in Google Cloud.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>March 07, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#March_07_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-03-07T00:00:00-08:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#March_07_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/gen-ai-rag-vertex-ai-vector-search">Infrastructure for a RAG-capable generative AI application using Vertex AI and Vector Search</a>: Added information about the Terraform configuration sample to <a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/gen-ai-rag-vertex-ai-vector-search#deployment">deploy</a> the architecture.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>March 05, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#March_05_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-03-05T00:00:00-08:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#March_05_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/gen-ai-rag-vertex-ai-vector-search">Infrastructure for a RAG-capable generative AI application using Vertex AI and Vector Search</a>: Updated the data processing component in the reference architecture to use a Cloud Run function in place of a Cloud Run job.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>February 07, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#February_07_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-02-07T00:00:00-08:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#February_07_2025"/>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/security">Google Cloud Architecture Framework: Security, privacy, and compliance</a>: Major update to align the recommendations with core principles of security.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>January 31, 2025</title>
    <id>tag:google.com,2016:architecture-center-release-notes#January_31_2025</id>
    <updated>2025-01-31T00:00:00-08:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/docs/release-notes#January_31_2025"/>
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<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/best-practices-vpc-design">Best practices and reference architectures for VPC design</a>: Updates to the document to reflect feature releases over the past months.</p>
<h3>Changed</h3>
<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/architecture/ccn-distributed-apps-design">Cross-Cloud Network for distributed applications</a>: Updates to the document set to reflect feature releases over the past months.</p>
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