Today at Google Cloud Next, we are unveiling a more proactive Gemini Cloud Assist, our AI-assisted cloud operations platform. This update shifts your Google Cloud operations from manual workflows to a proactive, intelligent experience supported by a powerful ecosystem of agents.
Why it matters: A new agentic architecture enables Gemini Cloud Assist to handle the heavy lifting of your cloud management. By embedding intelligence, your enterprise context, and the power of Gemini directly into the operational layer, Gemini Cloud Assist proactively executes complex tasks such as designing applications, troubleshooting issues, and preemptively optimizing costs, that previously required constant human oversight. In enterprise-scale systems, this approach accelerates development velocity and reduces resolution times.
What’s new:
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Using natural language and the power of Gemini, reduce the time from design to deployment of new or existing multi-resource deployments via a redesigned Application Design Center.
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Automate infrastructure operations via gcloud, kubectl, and Terraform while using proactive multi-turn agents to troubleshoot and resolve incidents.
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Identify your cost anomalies 24/7 using a proactive FinOps agent that analyzes spending spikes and generates granular cost reports on demand.
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Assistance wherever you are. Powered by Google Cloud MCP servers and our proactive agents under the hood, Gemini Cloud Assist also exposes its own design, operation, troubleshooting and optimization capabilities as published MCP servers, bringing them straight to your IDE.
“Gemini Cloud Assist has significantly helped our dev teams. It reduced the number of outreach and touch points I have with them regarding Google Cloud questions by 60%. This allows our cloud team to scale more effectively and focus on more complex tasks.” – Oscar Aldana Assad, Senior Cloud Engineer, Petco
Let’s take a deeper look at how the agentic Gemini Cloud Assist can help your operations.
Accelerate production-readiness with Application Design Center
Gemini Cloud Assist serves as the intelligent reasoning engine for Application Design Center, acting as the bridge between natural-language intent, and a visual, production-ready architecture. By describing your infrastructure goals in plain language, Gemini Cloud Assist leverages Application Design Center to automatically lay out a visual design, including deployable Terraform. These templates are based on best-practice architecture guidance from Google Cloud and help bring security, reliability and compliance by design. Integrated with Security Command Center, quickly go from idea to deployment that conforms to your organizational policies.
Platform teams can then curate shared catalogs of pre-approved templates and integrate their own custom Terraform modules directly into the design process, providing a governed framework. This established, well-lit path helps developers adhere to organizational security and compliance guardrails from the first day of deployment. Beyond initial deployment, Gemini supports the full application lifecycle with interactive, multi-turn problem solving to update cloud resources.
