Most enterprises experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) agents face the same problem. Building an agent is one task. Connecting it to live data is another. Securing it, governing it and knowing when it fails has historically required a separate tool, a separate vendor and a separate procurement decision for each.
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a unified system designed to handle all of it. The platform replaces Vertex AI as Google’s primary enterprise AI development environment and bundles agent building, deployment, data integration, security and optimization into a single offering. All future Vertex AI services and roadmap updates will be delivered through it.
The launch is Google’s direct answer to Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft’s Foundry. The timing reflects a broader shift in enterprise AI competition. The race is no longer about which model performs best. It’s about which platform makes agents…