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June 18, 2026
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(New guide) Multi-tenant agentic AI system: A reference architecture to help you design a robust multi-tenant agentic AI system in Google Cloud.
June 09, 2026
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April 22, 2026
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(New guide) Build a multicloud open data lakehouse: A high-level architecture to build a multicloud open data lakehouse that establishes a highly governed, secure pipeline from raw multicloud silos to AI and agentic driven actions.
April 21, 2026
April 16, 2026
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(New guide) Multi-agent private networking patterns: Guidance to help you design private networking infrastructure that supports a publicly accessible, multi-agent, Gemini Enterprise app with private connections between agents, subagents, and tools.
April 08, 2026
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(New guide) Orchestrate security operations workflows: A high-level architecture to build a multi-agent AI system that orchestrates complex investigation and triage processes in a security operations center (SOC) .
April 06, 2026
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(New guide) Multimodal GraphRAG resource orchestration: A high-level architecture to build and deploy a multi-agent AI system that consolidates fragmented multimodal data into a searchable knowledge graph.
March 04, 2026
March 03, 2026
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(New guide) Classify multimodal data: A high-level architecture to design a multi-agent AI system that analyzes disparate multimodal data and produces a high-confidence classification.
February 13, 2026
February 09, 2026
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December 16, 2025
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December 11, 2025
December 09, 2025
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(New guide) Administer interactive learning: Design a single-agent AI system that assesses a user's knowledge on a specific topic and generates a personalized learning experience.
December 08, 2025
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May 19, 2025
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File storage on Compute Engine:
- Added information about Google Cloud Managed Lustre and DDN Infinia.
- Updated the protocol specifications for Filestore.
- Updated the protocol and performance specifications for NetApp Volumes.
May 01, 2025
April 30, 2025
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April 11, 2025
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(New guide) Harness CI/CD pipeline for RAG applications: 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.
April 10, 2025
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February 07, 2025
January 31, 2025
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December 30, 2024
December 20, 2024
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(New guide) Confidential computing for data analytics and AI: Provides an overview of confidential computing, explores use cases for data analytics and federated learning across various industries, and includes architecture examples for some use cases.
December 11, 2024
December 09, 2024
December 06, 2024
November 19, 2024
November 01, 2024
October 31, 2024
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October 11, 2024
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(New series) Architecture Framework: AI and ML perspective: Describes principles and recommendations that are specific to AI and ML, for each pillar of the Architecture Framework: operational excellence, security, reliability, cost optimization, and performance optimization.
October 01, 2024
September 27, 2024
September 25, 2024
September 19, 2024
September 17, 2024
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(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.
September 16, 2024
September 05, 2024
August 30, 2024
August 19, 2024
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(New guide) Use generative AI for utilization management: A reference architecture for health insurance companies to automate prior authorization (PA) request processing and improve their utilization review (UR) processes.
August 16, 2024
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February 28, 2024
February 15, 2024
February 09, 2024
February 08, 2024
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(New guide) Single-zone deployment on Compute Engine: Provides a reference architecture for a multi-tier application that runs on Compute Engine VMs in a single Google Cloud zone and describes the design factors to consider when you build a single-zone architecture.
January 31, 2024
January 25, 2024
January 19, 2024
January 17, 2024
January 09, 2024
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Architecture fundamentals: This page provides a consolidated view of the Architecture Center resources that provide fundamental architectural guidance applicable to all the technology categories.
January 08, 2024
January 03, 2024
December 21, 2023
December 20, 2023
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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.
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Enterprise foundations blueprint: Major rewrite of the guide and updates to the deployable Terraform code:
- Guide rebranded as "Enterprise foundations blueprint" to reflect broader coverage (previously "Security foundations blueprint").
- Prescriptive recommendations with an emphasis on the decisions needed to align with existing operations and technology stack.
- Multiple deployment options: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Terraform Cloud.
- Scripts to automate deployment across multiple stages and repositories.
- Enhancements to the GitHub code to include updated product capabilities and best practices like centralizing logs to a Log Analytics enabled bucket, replacing VPC firewall rules with network firewall policies, and customizable detective controls.
December 19, 2023
December 15, 2023
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(New Guide: 2 of 3) Hybrid and multicloud architecture patterns: Discusses common hybrid and multicloud architecture patterns, and describes the scenarios that these patterns are best suited for.
Adds new content and revises existing content.
December 14, 2023
December 08, 2023
December 06, 2023
December 05, 2023
November 30, 2023
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November 16, 2023
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Parallel file systems for HPC workloads: Added Sycomp Storage Fueled by IBM Spectrum Scale as an option for parallel file system (PFS) storage, and replaced NetApp Cloud Volumes Service with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
November 14, 2023
November 13, 2023
November 09, 2023
November 06, 2023
November 03, 2023
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(New guide) Google Cloud deployment archetypes: Overview and comparative analysis of the zonal, regional, multi-regional, global, hybrid, and multicloud deployment archetypes.
October 31, 2023
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PCI DSS compliance on GKE: Updated to meet the requirements of PCI DSS version 4.0, use Cloud IDS instead of a third-party IDS, and use the PodSecurity admission controller instead of PodSecurityPolicy.
October 23, 2023
October 16, 2023
October 09, 2023
October 04, 2023
October 01, 2023
September 28, 2023
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(New guide) Design secure deployment pipelines: Best practices for designing secure deployment pipelines based on your confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements.