Cloud Marketplace release notes

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

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October 01, 2023

Beginning in October 2023, Google Cloud Marketplace supports a new transaction model, the agency model. For details about the agency model and which transactions it applies to, see the transaction models documentation.

January 26, 2023

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

November 18, 2022

You can download private offers as PDFs. Offers can include notes from the vendor and the included EULA.

November 09, 2022

Curate which products are available for your Organization to use with Private Marketplace (Preview). You can add products to collections and share these collections with your organization, folders, or projects.

Learn more about Private Marketplace.

September 15, 2022

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

January 06, 2022

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

Learn more about enabling procurement requests.

July 13, 2020

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

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.

February 27, 2020

You can deploy security software agents, which are typically part of larger security solutions, from Google Cloud Marketplace to the VM instances in your projects.

Learn about Deploying security software agents.

May 10, 2019

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

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.

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

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

Google Cloud Launcher is now Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.

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.

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.