Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage now offers object enrichments in Preview, applying Google's pre-trained machine learning models to eligible images and PDF documents in your buckets and attaching the resulting metadata as object contexts. You can inspect these enrichments on individual objects or query them at scale in BigQuery via Storage Insights datasets, including the new Object Contexts Catalog view, and retrieve extended context data using the viewFullContext JSON API method.

Matters for: Teams running image or document classification pipelines on Cloud Storage buckets who want to query ML-derived metadata directly in BigQuery.

Storage Intelligence advisor, which lets you monitor and manage your Cloud Storage environment at scale across organizations, folders, and projects, is now generally available. The source notes this release as breaking, but no specific action or migration step for Cloud Storage itself is described in the text.

Matters for: Teams managing Cloud Storage across multiple organizations, folders, and projects at scale.