Google Cloud Terms Change Summary

Below are summaries of changes recently made to the terms and policies for the products offered by Google Cloud.

The following summaries cover the most recent changes. For prior changes, see available previous versions of the terms and policies for product-specific terms.

Google Cloud Platform

June 1, 2026

  • Updated definition of “Fee Accrual Period” to include Google Workspace.

April 22, 2026

  • Updated name of Looker Studio to Data Studio.

March 24, 2026

  • Update to Section 2.1 (Billing) to allow for the use of paid credits.

February 9, 2026

  • Cloud Identity is now governed by the Google Cloud Terms of Service.

October 13, 2025

  • Google Workspace is now governed by the Google Cloud Terms of Service.
  • Updates to Section 1.1 (Services Use) were made to include Google Workspace.
  • Section 1.3(b) (Verification to use GWS Services) was added.
  • Updates to Section 1.4 (Updates) were made to include Google Workspace.
  • Updates to Section 2.1 (Billing) were made to include Google Workspace, including the addition of Section 2.1(b) (Billing Options for GWS Services).
  • Updates to Section 2.3 (Payment Disputes & Refunds) to clarify that Google may revise or revoke previously-extended credit.
  • Terms regarding pricing changes were moved from Section 1.4 to the new Section 2.6 (Pricing Revisions), which also includes new language for Google Workspace.
  • Updates to Section 3.3 (Restrictions) were made to include Google Workspace.
  • Section 3.7 (Additional Terms for GWS Services) was added to address features and terms specific to Google Workspace.
  • Updates to Section 4 (Suspension) were made to include Google Workspace.
  • Section 5.4 (Using Brand Features Within the GWS Services) was added.
  • Updates to Section 6 (Technical Support Services) were made to include Google Workspace.
  • Section 8.2 (GWS Services Renewal) was added to address Google Workspace renewal plans.
  • Updates to Section 8.3(b) (Termination of this Agreement) were made to remove termination for insolvency.
  • Section 8.8 (No Refunds) was added.
  • Updates to Section 12.2 (Limitation on Amount of Liability) were made to include Google Workspace.
  • Updates to Section 13.5(b) (Remedies) were made to account for refunds of unused prepaid fees.
  • Updates were made to Section 15.19 (Definitions) to include reference to Google Workspace where applicable and include certain new definitions applicable to Google Workspace.

July 1, 2025

  • Removed language regarding resold SecOps customers (language was moved to SecOps Service Specific Terms) and updated language in blue box on top to make clear that resold customers of GCP and Looker (original) (in addition to SecOps) could enter into the agreement.

April 22, 2025

  • Renamed Google Cloud Terms of Service
  • Looker (original) is now governed by the Google Cloud Terms of Service.
  • Updates to Section 1 (Provision of the Services) were made to include Looker (original).
  • Updates to Section 1.4 (Updates) were made to include Looker (original) and address when Google may update the terms of the Agreement applicable to Looker (original).
  • Updates were made to Section 2 (Payment Terms) to include Looker (original).
  • Updates were made to Section 12 (Limitation of Liability) to include Looker (original).
  • Updates were made to Section 14 (Resold Customers) to include Looker (original).
  • Updates were made to Section 15.19 (Definitions) to include reference to Looker (original) where applicable and include certain new definitions applicable to Looker (original).

January 30, 2025

  • Added Google Cloud Mexico as a new contracting entity.

October 17, 2024

  • Use of SecOps Services is now subject to the unified Google Cloud Platform / SecOps Terms of Service.
  • Updates to Provision of the Services were made to Section 1.
  • Updates to Payment Terms were made to Section 2.
  • Update to Suspension was made to add Section 4.3 (Generative AI Safety and Abuse).
  • Updates to Confidential Information were made to Section 7.1 (Obligations).
  • Updates to Term and Termination were made to Section 8.
  • Updates to Publicity were made to Section 9.
  • Updates to Limitation of Liability were made to Section 12.
  • Updates to Indemnification were made to Sections 13.5 (Remedies).
  • Terms for Resold Customers were added to Section 14.
  • Updates to Miscellaneous were made to Sections 15.13 (Amendments), 15.14 (Survival), 15.18 (Conflicting Languages), and 15.19 (Definitions).
  • Region-specific terms were made to Section 16 for (a) Asia Pacific - Australia, (b) Europe, Middle East, Africa - Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon, and (c) Latin America - Brazil.

September 30, 2024

  • Updates to Online Billing were made to Section 2.1

November 16, 2023

  • Updates to comply with Australian Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) law were made to Sections 1.5, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, and 13.6.
  • New Asia Pacific - Australia section was added to Section 15.

July 12, 2023

  • Updates to Google's ability to protect the Services, infrastructure, or other customers were made to Section 4.2.

April 19, 2023

  • Updates to retention of respective intellectual property were made to Section 5.1.
  • Updates for derivative data in the definition of "Customer Data" were made to Section 14.19.

February 6, 2023

  • Terms to enforce Acceptable Use Policy compliance were added to Section 3.6.
  • Updates for Google's protection of Customer Data were made to Section 5.2. 

November 7, 2022

  • Updates for Affiliate's billing accounts in Brazil were made to Section 14.3.  
  • Updates for India and Brazil region-specific terms were made to Section 15.

September 20, 2022

  • References to Cloud Data Processing Addendum were made throughout the Agreement.
  • Update for billing frequency was made to Section 2.1.
  • Update for copyright infringement was made to Section 3.5.
  • Updates for India and select EMEA countries region-specific terms were made to Section 15.

June 8, 2026

  • Updated terms for Cloud Network Insights to account for the Service becoming generally available.

May 29, 2026

  • Updates to Section 15 (Pre-GA Offerings) were made to clarify that using Pre-GA components within a generally available Service or Software does not negate Google's unrelated commitments for that Service or Software.
  • Service Terms for NCC Gateway were added in Section 10.b.
  • Changed "Fine-Tuned Google Model" to "Modified Google Model" and updated the definition.

May 4, 2026

  • Service Terms for Compute Engine were added in Section 6.b.
  • Service Terms for AlloyDB Omni were updated in Section 50.

April 22, 2026

  • Updated all Vertex references to updated names determined per rebranding strategy (changing Vertex AI Platform to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform).
  • Updated name of Looker Studio to Data Studio.
  • Grounding with Google Search: Relocated the Grounding with Google Search (GwGS) terms for Gemini Enterprise (formerly Agentspace) to the GwGS Section. This update expands copy and storage rights specifically for the UI-based version of the product.
  • CCAI: New terms for GECX to reflect its specific web grounding tool. This section leverages the core GwGS terms, but accounts for differences.

April 2, 2026

  • Updates to Section 41 (Firebase Authentication and Identity Platform) and Section 43 (reCAPTCHA Enterprise) to remove requirement of customers to present the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use to their end customers, or to have their own use of their end customers’ data governed by their own privacy policies.

March 24, 2026

  • Pricing and Billing Terms were updated with new Section 4 (Paid Credits), incorporating new Supplemental Paid Credit Terms.

February 23, 2026

  • Updated Section 20.k. of Service Terms, as follows:
  • Search Suggestions: Removed Search Suggestions requirement subject to some conditions listed in the Pricing page.
  • Storage or Debugging: Reduced the scope of what it’s logged and adding more clarity on how and for how long.

February 18, 2026

  • Added definition of “Agentic AI Services” to Section 13 of Service Terms.
  • Added terms for Cloud Network Insights, a new service.

January 29, 2026

  • Added definition of “Agentic AI Services” to Section 13 of Service Terms.
  • Added new Section 41 for Firebase Phone Number Verification (Firebase PNV) service specific terms

December 22, 2025

  • Clarified scopes of pre-GA offerings and customer benchmark testing rights.
  • Added terms that enable government use of trial offerings free of charge for official purposes, consistent with applicable law and ethics rules.

November 20, 2025

  • Updated service terms for Generative AI Services, Section 19.k.

October 16, 2025

  • Updated name of Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service (CCAAS) to Conversation Agents.

October 9, 2025

  • Added terms for new Gemini for Enterprise and Gemini for Government offerings as new sections, clarifying governing terms for included non-GCP products.

October 6, 2025

  • Added terms for new Cross-Site Interconnect (CSI) under “Cloud Interconnect” section, linking to a list of countries in which CSI may be used, stating requirement for CSI customers to use Dedicated Interconnect, and clarifying that Google is not responsible for responding to government requests related to customer’s use of CSI.

September 25, 2025

  • Terms that enable Customer Engineers and other similarly Cloud teams to perform free hands on keyboard proof of concept work to customers using customer data have been moved into the GCP SSTs.

September 18, 2025

  • Added terms for Grounding with Google Maps, a new feature of the Generative AI on Vertex AI Service.

September 9, 2025

  • General Service Terms were updated with new Section 16 (EU Data Act Terms). Pricing and Billing Terms were updated with new Section 5 (Price Change Rationale).

August 28, 2025

  • Changed name of “Sovereign Controls by Partners” to “Data Boundary by Partners” and edited description to reflect new terminology and include additional clarifications.
  • Added terms for Hyperdisk Exapools, a new feature of Persistent Disk.

August 18, 2025

  • Added, under paragraph 12 Developer Tools, Service Terms, a new Service being launched GA, Google Device Cloud, specifically for Partner Device Cloud. The SST confirms for users that the license terms applicable to its use of the devices come from and are controlled by the Device Partner, provides “instruction” terms for Google’s compliance with GCPR, and defines the Partner Device Labs.

July 1, 2025

  • Link to SecOps Service Specific Terms added.

June 9, 2025

  • Updated Section 38 (reCAPTCHA Enterprise) of the “Service Terms” Section to clarify how information submitted via use of the reCAPTCHA Enterprise Service will be processed.

May 15, 2025

  • "Analytics Hub" name updated to "Sharing in Big Query".

April 8, 2025

  • Added terms for Web Grounding for Enterprise, a new feature of Vertex AI.
  • Added terms for Agentic AI Services.

February 6, 2025

  • Updated Section 9 (Network Connectivity Center (NCC)) of the “Service Terms” Section to reflect the expanded list of countries in which customers may use the NCC offering, and to clarify that NCC must be used with a virtual private cloud (VPC).

December 16, 2024

  • Service Terms for Aria Suite were added in to Section 2.

November 11, 2024

  • Pricing and Billing Terms for SAP S/4HANA were updated in Section 3.
  • Partner-Specific Terms were updated to add SAP S/4HANA (Partner) to Section 3.

October 24, 2024

  • Service Terms for Contact Center AI (CCAI) Platform were renamed to Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) in Section 23.
  • Partner-Specific Terms for Modification of Terms were added to Section 2.

October 22, 2024

  • Service Terms for Audit Manager were added to Section 42.

September 30, 2024

  • Service Terms for Generative AI Services were updated in Section 19.
  • Service Terms for Speech on Device (SOD) were updated and Automotive AI Agent (AAA) Premium Software were added to Section 25.
  • Service Terms for Automotive AI Agent were added to Section 26.
  • Service Terms for Apigee were added to Section 30.