diff --git a/ports/google-cloud-cpp/disable-benchmarks.patch b/ports/google-cloud-cpp/disable-benchmarks.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 966cb17330fd22..00000000000000
--- a/ports/google-cloud-cpp/disable-benchmarks.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/generator/CMakeLists.txt b/generator/CMakeLists.txt
-index d68ae2a..99ec4c2 100644
---- a/generator/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/generator/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ function (google_cloud_cpp_generator_define_tests)
-     endforeach ()
- endfunction ()
- 
--add_subdirectory(integration_tests)
-+# add_subdirectory(integration_tests)
- 
- # Only define the tests if testing is enabled. Package maintainers may not want
- # to build all the tests everytime they create a new package or when the package
-diff --git a/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt b/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt
-index 09a4b58..9c85374 100644
---- a/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/google/cloud/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -548,5 +548,5 @@ if (GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_GRPC)
-         DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/google_cloud_cpp_grpc_utils"
-         COMPONENT google_cloud_cpp_development)
- 
--    add_subdirectory(samples)
-+    #add_subdirectory(samples)
- endif ()
-diff --git a/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt b/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt
-index 399c84f..d58c910 100644
---- a/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/google/cloud/bigtable/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -323,12 +323,12 @@ if (BUILD_TESTING)
-     add_subdirectory(tests)
- endif ()
- 
--add_subdirectory(benchmarks)
-+# add_subdirectory(benchmarks)
- 
- if (GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CXX_EXCEPTIONS)
-     # The examples are more readable if we use exceptions for error handling. We
-     # had to tradeoff readability vs. "making them compile everywhere".
--    add_subdirectory(examples)
-+    #add_subdirectory(examples)
- endif (GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CXX_EXCEPTIONS)
- 
- # Export the CMake targets to make it easy to create configuration files.
diff --git a/ports/google-cloud-cpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/google-cloud-cpp/portfile.cmake
index 98acc2302c021e..6c3378c2f6f83a 100644
--- a/ports/google-cloud-cpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/google-cloud-cpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -5,11 +5,9 @@ vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY)
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO googleapis/google-cloud-cpp
-    REF v1.27.0
-    SHA512 8528dbdea21a1ca84b7e3b7768a6f6de42c86ed879a4332e646b6de382bf8012d832a2687d5c4560530b569fd79983c259c49852855422c798a63e1787cda328
+    REF v1.28.0
+    SHA512 066655495d9d1a5a183b3efb682daf5b97e6f76943c7f6075694386075b9e8efacd102927e2e265bd4b509317088b4af70584695648e598b2a21d0df4111a6b6
     HEAD_REF master
-    PATCHES
-        disable-benchmarks.patch
 )
 
 vcpkg_add_to_path(PREPEND "${CURRENT_HOST_INSTALLED_DIR}/tools/grpc")
@@ -22,6 +20,7 @@ vcpkg_configure_cmake(
         -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_MACOS_OPENSSL_CHECK=OFF
         -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_WERROR=OFF
         -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CCACHE=OFF
+        -DGOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_EXAMPLES=OFF
         -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF
 )
 
diff --git a/ports/google-cloud-cpp/vcpkg.json b/ports/google-cloud-cpp/vcpkg.json
index 253b98705167f9..bd486a0457edba 100644
--- a/ports/google-cloud-cpp/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/google-cloud-cpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "google-cloud-cpp",
-  "version": "1.27.0",
+  "version": "1.28.0",
   "description": "C++ Client Libraries for Google Cloud Platform APIs.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 72ddfde871e7fb..37d6420a0dfdaa 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@
       "port-version": 6
     },
     "google-cloud-cpp": {
-      "baseline": "1.27.0",
+      "baseline": "1.28.0",
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "google-cloud-cpp-common": {
diff --git a/versions/g-/google-cloud-cpp.json b/versions/g-/google-cloud-cpp.json
index e0a0dd525e007d..15642cef76ece6 100644
--- a/versions/g-/google-cloud-cpp.json
+++ b/versions/g-/google-cloud-cpp.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "41623bc51fa4b9763aa83d192130ff37119afe33",
+      "version": "1.28.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "7e6a35577a3c0149939403d8aa0bb1ba3487398b",
       "version": "1.27.0",