AlloyDB adds group authentication to secure enterprise scale and AI agents
Database security traditionally relies on a fragile balance between the granular control developers need and the administrative overhead of managing thousands of individual database passwords. Between managing AI agent access, rotating static credentials, handling employee on-boarding and off-boarding, and auditing access logs, passwords remain an operational tax — and a potential security vulnerability. At Google Cloud, our goal is to help make database access transparent, secure, and passwordless. Today, we are taking an important step forward in that journey. We’re announcing Identity and Access Management (IAM) group authentication for AlloyDB, available in preview. This capability brings identity-driven access control to [...]