Last reviewed 2024-09-25 UTC
This document lists significant changes to the Google Cloud Architecture Framework.
September 25, 2024
- Cost optimization pillar: Major update to align the recommendations with core principles of cost optimization.
August 27, 2024
- The System Design category of the Architecture Framework has been removed. The guidance in this category is available in other Google Cloud documentation.
June 4, 2024
- Cost optimization category:
- Added information about monitoring the cost of Dataflow resources.
- Add recommendations for optimizing cost by using the at-least-once streaming mode and the dynamic thread scaling feature.
May 31, 2024
- Cost optimization category:
- Added information about the FinOps hub.
May 30, 2024
- System design category:
- Added a new design principle, Design for change.
May 23, 2024
- Cost optimization category:
- Added guidance in Optimize cost: Compute, containers, and serverless about reducing cost by suspending idle Compute Engine VMs .
May 16, 2024
- System design category:
- Added information about the Batch service in Choose and manage compute.
May 9, 2024
- Cost optimization category:
- Updated guidance about Dataflow Shuffle in Optimize cost: Databases and smart analytics.
April 22, 2024
- Cost optimization category:
- Added a recommendation about considering storage cost when configuring the log-retention period in Optimize cost: Cloud operations.
March 29, 2024
- Reliability category:
January 4, 2024
- Performance optimization category:
- Updated the guidance for Network Service Tiers.
November 28, 2023
- Reliability category:
- Reorganized the content to improve readability and consistency:
- Define SLOs: Moved "Terminology" section to new page: Terminology
- Adopt SLOs: Moved "SLOs and Alerts" section to new page: SLOs and Alerts
November 9, 2023
- System design category:
- Added guidance to help cloud architects to choose deployment archetypes for workloads in Google Cloud.