Regional and Multi-Regional endpoints for the Firestore API are now Generally Available (GA). You can use a Regional or a Multi-Regional endpoint to ensure that your application's requests are transmitted, stored and processed in the same region or multi-region as your database's location.

To learn more, see the Firestore regional endpoints guide.

You can also use Private Service Connect regional endpoints and Private Service Connect backends to connect to the regional and the multi-regional endpoints of the Firestore API.

Firestore Enterprise edition now supports Native mode in all supported regions. For a list of supported regions, see Locations.

After March 17, 2026, when you enable Firestore, the Firestore MCP server is automatically enabled.

Deprecated

Control of MCP use with organization policies is deprecated. After March 17, 2026, organization policies that use the gcp.managed.allowedMCPServices constraint won't work, and you can control MCP use with IAM deny policies. For more information about controlling MCP use, see Control MCP use with IAM.

Announcement

New best practices are available for securing generative AI agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Google Cloud databases. This guide covers key security measures like least privilege, native database controls, and secure agent design to help you build safer AI applications. For more information, see Best practices for securing agent interactions with Model Context Protocol.

You can now use the Firestore remote MCP server. The Firestore remote MCP server lets you interact with documents stored in a Firestore database from your AI application.

This feature is in Preview.

The Firestore databases page in the Google Cloud console now includes a status column. Possible statuses include:

• Ready
• Cloning is in progress
• Restoring from backup is in progress
• Deleted
• Failed

For the cloning and restore statuses, the status column updates upon completion.

Firestore Enterprise edition now supports Native mode and the Pipeline operations interface.

Pipeline operations are a new query interface for Firestore. This interface provides advanced query functionality that includes complex expressions. It also adds support for many new functions like min, max, substring, regex_match and array_contains_all.

With Firestore Enterprise edition in Native mode, index creation is also completely optional, streamlining the process of developing new queries.

To learn more about Pipeline operations, see the query interfaces overview.

This feature is available in Preview.

The database clone feature is now supported at the General Availability (GA) level.

You can now query your databases and update data using the dedicated Gemini CLI extension for Firestore. This feature is available in beta.

Use Query insights to view query performance metrics for your database. This feature is now generally available (GA).

You can clone an existing database at a selected timestamp into a new database. This feature is available in Preview.

Committed use discounts are now generally available (GA) for Firestore in exchange for a commitment to continuously spend a certain amount on Firestore read/write/delete operations for one year or three years. For details, see Committed use discounts.

Firestore is now available on Database Center. You can track your Firestore resources in the fleet inventory section and the resource table in the Database Center. You can also use Database Center to monitor the following health issues for your Firestore resources:

• No automated backup policy
• No point-in-time recovery

For more information about Database Center, see Database Center overview. For more information about health issues supported for Firestore, see Supported health issues.

Feature

You can now use Query insights to view query performance metrics for your database. This feature is in Preview.

Cloud Firestore now supports multi-region nam7 United States (Central and East), which consists of regions us-central1 (Iowa) and us-east4 (Northern Virginia).

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

Firestore now supports the europe-north2 Stockholm region.

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

Firestore is supported by Database Center. Database Center is an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you one centralized view across your entire database fleet. Database Center displays the following health issue for Firestore:

• No automated backup policy

For more information, see Database Center overview and database health issues.

You can now Manage Firestore resources using Organization Policy Service custom constraints.

You can monitor performance using client-side traces in Java and Node.js. This feature is in Preview.

You can now use Active Assist to provide recommendations and insights that improve the reliability of your databases. This feature is generally available (GA).

For more information, see Reliability recommender.

Firestore now supports the northamerica-south1 Queretaro region.

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

You can now use the Firestore managed bulk delete service to delete documents in bulk. This feature is in Preview.

For more information, see Bulk delete data.

The Google Cloud console now includes a monitoring dashboard for each database. For more information, see Use the Cloud Monitoring dashboard.

You can now use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) in Firestore to protect your data. This feature is generally available (GA) behind an allow-list.

For more information, see Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

You can now use Firestore to perform K-nearest neighbor (KNN) vector searches. Additionally, use Firestore vector searches with inequality filters, retrieve the calculated vector distance, and specify a distance threshold. This feature is generally available (GA).

For more information, see Search with vector embeddings.

You can now apply range and inequality filters to multiple fields in a query. This feature is generally available (GA).

For more information, see Query with range and inequality filters on multiple fields overview.

Scheduled backups are now available in GA.

Firestore now supports the us-south1 Dallas region.

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

Firestore now supports the following additional locations:

• africa-south1 Johannesburg
• europe-north1 Finland
• europe-southwest1 Madrid
• europe-west10 Berlin
• europe-west12 Turin
• europe-west8 Milan
• southamerica-west1 Santiago
• us-central1 Iowa
• us-east5 Columbus

For a full list of supported locations, see Locations.

Support for Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). This feature is in Preview.

You can now use Firestore to perform K-nearest neighbor (KNN) vector searches. This feature is in Preview.

Firestore now supports using range and inequality filters on multiple fields in a single query. This feature is in Preview.

Feature

Support for Query Explain. This feature is in Preview.

Query Explain lets you submit queries and receive detailed query plan, billing and performance statistics on query execution in return. It helps you understand how your queries are executed, showing you inefficiencies.

It functions like the EXPLAIN [ANALYZE] operation in many relational database systems.

For more information, see the guide for Query Explain.