Google Cloud Bigtable is generally available

[Misha Brukman]

Dear Cloud Bigtable users,

It is our pleasure to announce that Cloud Bigtable is generally available! The service is ready to host your production workloads and is covered by an SLA. Our blog post describes several use cases from FIS, Spotify, and Energyworx. (If you're interested in having a case study of your Bigtable use case posted on cloud.google.com, please reach out to me.)

As part of this release, we added presence in a new region (us-east1) and additional zones in europe-west1 and asia-east1 regions. Cloud Bigtable is now available in 8 zones across 4 GCP regions worldwide, with more to come.

We've also updated the UI and API. If you're using one of our supported clients in Java or Go, the changes to your code are quite minimal and are described in the upgrade guide. In addition, we released a native Python client library, which is using the new v2 API. If you are maintaining your own GRPC-based client for Cloud Bigtable in another language, we have published protocol buffers describing the API.

Code using the older v1 API will continue to work for a limited time, but please note that since the v1 API was a pre-GA API, we intend to phase it out at the end of 2016, so please upgrade soon. Also, note that new feature development will be done for recent versions of client libraries using the v2 API only.

We have also added a new integrations page where you will find pointers to other services and products that work with Cloud Bigtable. If you have suggestions for what software or frameworks we should integrate with next, please let us know.

Thank you for using Cloud Bigtable!

Misha Brukman

on behalf of the Cloud Bigtable team