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August 27, 2026
For regional external passthrough Network Load Balancers, reserving specific or automatically allocated bring your own IP (BYOIP) IPv6 addresses before creating a load balancer, and promoting an ephemeral BYOIP IPv6 address in use by a load balancer to a reserved static IP address, is generally available (GA).
For more information, see the following documentation:
August 26, 2026
SSL policy cross-project referencing is now available for Application Load Balancers and proxy Network Load Balancers in Preview. You can use cross-project referencing to define and maintain a central SSL policy in an administrative project and reference it from target HTTPS proxies or target SSL proxies in different projects.
Cross-project referencing is supported for global and regional SSL policies. You can use cross-project referencing with the following load balancers:
- Global external Application Load Balancer
- Regional external Application Load Balancer
- Cross-region internal Application Load Balancer
- Regional internal Application Load Balancer
- Global external proxy Network Load Balancer
For more information, see Cross-project SSL policy referencing.
August 19, 2026
Global Front End combines global external Application Load Balancers, Google Cloud Armor, Cloud CDN, and Service Extensions into one solution to help deliver, scale, and secure your internet-facing applications.
For more information, see Global Front End.
This feature is available in Preview.