Cloud SDK Update: Agent Identity GA, BigQuery S3 Service Directory, Firestore DML
The Cloud SDK has been updated, promoting agent identity authentication and access summaries to general availability. New features include S3 Service Directory support for BigQuery AWS connections via private networks and DML support for the Firestore Pipelines API. These changes impact developers and architects working with BigQuery, Firestore, and agent identity management on GCP.
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- Cloud SDK Agent Identity
577.0.0 (2026-07-21) Promoted gcloud agent-identity auth-providers and gcloud agent-identity access-summaries to GA. Modify flag --no-enable-autoscaler of gcloud beta alloydb instances create|update commands to only set the enabled field to false and not clear autoscaling config. Modify gcloud beta alloydb instances update command to only allow one of --autoscaler-delete-schedule , --autoscaler-disable-schedule , --autoscaler-enable-schedule , or --autoscaler-set-schedule to be specified. Added connector-repository mode to gcloud artifacts repositories create . Added support for --s3_service_d
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#July_21_2026
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