Google Announces Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to Streamline AI Agent Lifecycle Management at Google Cloud Next

Google has announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a revamped developer tool built on Vertex AI that manages the full lifecycle of AI agent fleets. The platform was unveiled at Google Cloud Next on April 22, 2026, as part of the company’s broader Gemini Enterprise offering for the agentic era.

The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform brings together Google’s full suite of AI models, development tools, and tuning services into a unified environment for building, scaling, governing, and optimizing AI agents. It is designed to enable businesses to deploy agents that can execute complex, multi-step work processes autonomously.

According to Google Cloud documentation, the platform includes Agent Runtime, a set of services that enables developers to deploy, manage, and scale AI agents in production. Agent Runtime handles infrastructure scaling so developers can focus on creating applications, offering capabilities such as managed runtime deployment, container image customization, security features including VPC-SC compliance, authentication and IAM configuration, and access to models and tools like function calling.

The platform supports agents built using different Python frameworks and the Agent2Agent open protocol. It also includes preview features such as quality and evaluation through the integrated Gen AI Evaluation service, Agent Platform Sessions for storing user-agent interactions, Agent Platform Memory Bank for personalizing agent experiences, secure code execution in sandbox environments, and observability via Google Cloud Trace, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Logging.

Gemini Enterprise, introduced earlier as the new front door for AI in the workplace, provides teams with a secure environment to discover, create, share, and run AI agents. The Gemini Enterprise app is built on the Agent Platform, inheriting its governance, security, and identity capabilities, and integrates with enterprise data—including data in third-party systems—through connectors.

An open partner ecosystem allows organizations to discover and deploy third-party agents from leaders such as Oracle, Salesforce, and ServiceNow within a secure and governed environment. As organizations manage thousands of agents, the platform aims to provide oversight and minimize sprawl through centralized controls.

Google Cloud positions Gemini Enterprise as an end-to-end system for the agentic era, combining frontier AI models, an intuitive user interface, a secure development framework, and the ability to deploy agents at global scale. The platform evolves Vertex AI into a comprehensive environment for AI agent development, and orchestration.