Skip to content

Cloud Changelog

November 5, 2026 · Google CloudFeature

BigQuery conversational analytics available in asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)

Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location. For more information, see Locations.

Text from the Google Cloud release notes, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Google Cloud release notes.

Source: Google Cloud release notes

More BigQuery changes

Nov 3
Supports persistent and temporary SQL user-defined functions; other UDF types unsupported
Nov 2
Monitoring of data agent performance, adoption, latency and costs in Cloud ObservabilityGA
Oct 30
Query results can be retrieved in Apache Arrow format for faster retrievalPreview
Oct 27
Git repositories, Google Drive input, Connected Sheets conversational analytics and AI.COUNT_TOKENS reach GAGA
Oct 26
Conversational analytics conversation logging is GA; Python UDF volume mounts and REGEXP_EXTRACT_GROUPS enter PreviewGA

All BigQuery changes