The latest wave of announcements from Google Cloud Next 2025 highlights just how rapidly the platform is evolving—ushering in a new era of innovation for cloud-forward organisations. From agentic AI frameworks like A2A and the Agent Development Kit, to intuitive tools such as the Application Design Center, and unified dashboards for cost optimisation and database modernisation, Google Cloud is setting the pace for scalable digital transformation. For teams aiming to ship features faster, control cloud spend, or embed AI safely at scale, the opportunity is immense—but so are the choices. Below, we list key highlights from the event and what they mean for IT leaders navigating this fast-moving ecosystem.

AI

Agentic AI is revolutionising workflows and GCP is at the forefront of this with announcements including: 

• A2A was released, enhancing multi-agent and specialised agent workflows
  
  • This post summarises how it compares to MCP - In short, A2A standardises agent-to-agent communication while MCP standardises agent-to-tools communication.
• The Agent Development Kit offers a flexible and modular framework to developing and deploying AI agents
  
  • The ADK also contains ready-to-use samples and tools via the Agent Garden
• Lots of new models including Gemini 2.5 Pro were released

Infrastructure, Development & Databases

• The new Application Design Center, now in preview, provides a visual, canvas-style approach to designing and modifying application templates, and lets you configure application templates for deployment, view infrastructure as code in-line, and collaborate with teammates on designs.
• Database Center is now generally available and supports every database in the GCP portfolio, providing a unified, AI-powered fleet management solution.
• GKE Inference Gateway offers intelligent scaling and load-balancing capabilities, helping you handle request scheduling and routing with gen AI model-aware scaling and load-balancing techniques.  With GKE Inference, you can choose an AI model and your desired performance, and GKE configures the right infrastructure, accelerators, and Kubernetes resources to match.
• Hubs:
  
  • Cloud Hub brings together a centralized view of your support cases, incidents, scheduled maintenance, deployments, capacity, performance and cost signals. Cloud Hub can show you insights for your projects or applications. Get started with application-based views:
  • App Hub has also been improved to model your applications as interconnected services and workloads for an application-centric view,
• Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, in preview, lets developers take advantage of MongoDB’s API portability along with Firestore’s multi-region replication with strong consistency, virtually unlimited scalability, a 99.999% SLA, and single-digit milliseconds read latency.
• Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations for Cloud SQL and AlloyDB, allowing you to fully execute on your database modernisation strategy.

GCP Security

• Google Unified Security brings together visibility, threat detection, AI-powered security operations, continuous virtual red-teaming, the most trusted enterprise browser, and Mandiant expertise in one converged security solution running on a planet-scale data fabric.

Google Workspace

• Workspace automation
  
  • Demo - https://youtu.be/fBmHNeDXYu8
  • Gems - https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15236321

FinOps & Cloud Cost Management

• Cost Explorer, in private preview, provides visibility into granular application costs and utilisation metrics, allowing you to identify efficiency opportunities.
• Improved visibility into model & AI costs with Vertex AI Dashboards - a critical tool for organisations using Vertex.
• FinOps Hub 2.0 now includes waste insights and cost optimisation opportunities from Gemini Cloud Assist.

Data

• BigQuery pipelines, now GA, supports building data pipelines.
• Looker conversational analytics, in preview, lets business users interact with data using natural language.

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As a premium Google Cloud Partner, Deimos ensures that your organisation is not only up to speed with the latest updates—but also positioned to make the most of them. We’re proud to be the only Google partner in Africa to hold both the Google Cloud Security Specialisation and the Google Cloud Infrastructure Specialisation, reflecting our deep capability in securing, scaling, and modernising cloud environments. If you're ready to explore how these new innovations can power your next phase of growth, request a call back or book a complimentary working session with our cloud experts. We look forward to building what’s next, together.

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