Cloud Marketplace release notes

This page contains the latest release notes for features and updates to Cloud Marketplace.

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July 29, 2024

Announcement

Google Private Marketplace and Product Requests are now Generally Available.

  • Google Private Marketplace lets organizations govern their software usage and control costs by ensuring that their users can only procure Google Cloud Marketplace solutions that have been approved by administrators, FinOps, or procurement team members.
  • Product Requests lets your users file requests to use or procure specific products.

January 26, 2023

Announcement

Private Offers, version 2, is now Generally available. Vendors can customize quotes that discount a flat fee, usage, or installments.

September 15, 2022

Feature

Vendors can now provide private offers with more granular discounts on usage metrics.

January 06, 2022

Feature

You can allow your Organization's members to request Cloud Marketplace SaaS products for procurement.

Learn more about enabling procurement requests.

July 13, 2020

Change

The IAM permissions required for purchasing the following solutions from Google Cloud Marketplace have changed:

  • Apache Kafka® on Confluent Cloud™
  • DataStax Astra for Apache Cassandra
  • Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud
  • NetApp Cloud Volumes Service
  • Redis Enterprise Cloud

If you use custom roles to purchase these solutions, you must update the custom roles to include the permissions described in Access Control for Google Cloud Marketplace.

Specifically, if your custom role includes the billing.subscriptions.create permission, you must update it to include the consumerprocurement.orders.place and the consumerprocurement.accounts.create permissions.

If you use the Billing Administrator role to purchase these solutions, you don't need to take any action.

April 14, 2020

Change

Security software agents on Google Cloud Marketplace are now Generally available.

Security software agents are typically part of larger security solutions, and can be deployed to VM instances in your projects.

Learn about Deploying security software agents.

May 10, 2019

Feature

Vendors of managed services and Kubernetes applications can now offer trials of their software. During trials, you can use the software without paying for the software license.

For information on how you are billed during a trial, see Understanding Billing.

April 09, 2019

Change

Some vendors provide Kubernetes applications that can run on GKE On-Prem clusters, and clusters that run Istio.

Learn about the prerequisites for running Kubernetes applications with GKE On-Prem or Istio.

Feature

Kubernetes applications on GCP Marketplace are now Generally Available.

For steps to set up a billing plan for Kubernetes applications, see Managing Billing Plans for Kubernetes Applications.

July 23, 2018

Feature

Vendors of VM solutions can offer trials of their software. During trials, you can use the software without paying for the software license.

For information on how you are billed during a trial, see Understanding Billing.

July 18, 2018

Feature

GCP Marketplace now includes commercial Kubernetes applications, which you can deploy to your Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.

For steps to set up a billing plan for Kubernetes applications, see Managing Billing Plans for Kubernetes Applications.

Change

Google Cloud Launcher is now Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.

Deprecated

The container registry launcher.gcr.io is deprecated. For steps you need to take to modify your scripts or configurations, as applicable, see Deploying Containers.