AI is massively accelerating the speed at which developers create code. This velocity is shifting the bottleneck from creation to operations, requiring SREs, DevOps, and platform engineers to take that code into production at the necessary speed and scale — all while ensuring it adheres to critical compliance, security, and governance requirements. To solve this challenge, we announced significant new capabilities and innovations across our portfolio at Google Cloud Next ‘26, including Application Design Center, App Hub/App Topology/App Optimize , and Cloud Hub .