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Best practices for handling cloud reliability incidents

Cloud outages can range from global service disruptions to issues isolated to a specific region, zone, or even just your project, workload or application. If you suspect a Google Cloud Platform outage is impacting your services, we recommend you follow a structured “Verify→ Investigate→Report→Resolve→Review" workflow to resolve it. And before that outage occurs, you should also have prepared your environment for an eventual disruption by designing for failure, and actively practicing the steps y

Agent Substrate brings high-density, scalable, trusted infrastructure to GKE

Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime engineered to run millions of sandboxes with 10x higher density than standard container runtimes. Purpose-built for the era of autonomous agents, Substrate delivers sub-500ms resume operations at over 500 suspend/resume activations per second with a native zero-trust kernel and network isolation. Agent Substrate is available

Scaling Telco Autonomy: Leveraging GNNs with Distributed GraphFlow

The telecommunications industry is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from traditional manual human-driven operations to fully Autonomous Network Operations. Modern networks have grown increasingly complex, heterogeneous, and large-scale, making handcrafted rules-based methods and traditional Machine Learning (ML) approaches alone insufficient to automate network operations. While ML methods can identify subtle patterns and make fine predictions from large amounts of structured data,

Introducing Filestore agent volumes: fully managed storage for agent workspaces

From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent.  Today, platform teams often stitch together custom workarounds to address agent storage requirements, which could include shuttling state back and forth between agent sandboxes and centralized storage or manually managing local disks and/or self-hosted file systems. However, as agent fleets scale, these approaches force difficult trade-offs between

Simplifying Terraform for IBM Z with intent-driven workflows

Today, we're introducing intent-driven workflows for IBM Terraform Self-Managed for Z and LinuxONE (Terraform for Z), bringing a new way to interact with infrastructure through trusted, agentic workflows.  As enterprises continue to modernize increasingly hybrid infrastructure, AI is changing not only how infrastructure is managed, but how operators interact with it. Rather than navigating complex operational procedures, teams are increasingly looking to define the outcome they're trying to achi

Agentic System Design in Practice: The Technical Debt in Enterprise Agentic Systems

Everybody wants to build agents these days  —  the internet is bombarded with stories of developers who built their own productivity agents in a single day. Can enterprises do the same? Maybe, but not at scale. Yes, agents bring unprecedented speed of operation, but they also bring the potential for sometimes hidden technical debt. Personalized using AI with an Adobe Stock image reference as baseline

AI for Societal Impact

Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.