Unified Platform for Building, Scaling, Governing and Optimizing Autonomous Agents

Google Cloud has launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a unified environment for technical teams to build, scale, govern, and optimize autonomous AI agents at enterprise scale.

The platform, announced on April 22, 2026, integrates model selection, agent building, DevOps, orchestration, and security capabilities into a single destination for managing agent deployments. It provides first-class access to more than 200 leading models through Model Garden, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, Lyria 3, and open models like Gemma 4.

According to Google Cloud, the platform addresses growing concerns around governance, scalability, and operational control that have plagued early agent implementations. It helps prevent agent sprawl by offering a centralized system to monitor performance, costs, and security across deployments.

The Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is positioned as the evolution of Vertex AI, designed to support the shift from generative AI that answers questions to autonomous agents that perceive, reason, and act on behalf of businesses. Google Cloud states that attempting to scale such agents on legacy stacks exposes structural failures leading to fractured governance, trust gaps, broken reasoning loops, and spiraling costs.

Organizations can use the platform to deliver agents through the Gemini Enterprise app while maintaining tight integration with IT operations for control and governance. Early adopters include Vodafone, which has launched hundreds of agents to save millions of euros annually; American Express, which is migrating its on-premises data warehouse and applications to BigQuery to power agentic commerce; and Virgin Voyages, which uses over 1,000 specialized AI agents, including one that reduced mass itinerary rebooking from six hours to 11 minutes.

Google Cloud identifies three innovation areas powering the Agentic Data Cloud: a universal context engine for trusted business context, agentic-first practitioner experiences to evolve data teams into agent orchestrators, and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform itself as the foundation for building and managing agents at scale.

The launch intensifies competition in the enterprise AI infrastructure market, where Google Cloud is positioning itself against Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Amazon Bedrock as companies seek industrial-strength tools to move beyond chatbot experiments into production-grade agent deployments.