At Cloud Next 2026, Thomas Kurian delivered a platform thesis, not a product announcement. Google rebranded Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, absorbed Agentspace into a unified Gemini Enterprise product, and launched Workspace Studio: a no-code agent builder that lets business users automate Gmail, Docs, and Salesforce through plain-language prompts.
The number that matters: Google’s Agent2Agent protocol v1.2 is in production at 150 organizations, not pilots. Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow are routing real tasks through it. A2A is now governed by the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation — that’s the same path HTTP took from proprietary spec to infrastructure standard. If A2A becomes the default, Google wrote the rules.
Here’s what changes for your stack. A2A handles agent-to-agent communication across organizational boundaries. Anthropic’s MCP handles agent-to-tool connections. Google adopted MCP across its own services in December 2025, so both protocols coexist on the same platform. Your Salesforce agent can hand off a task to a Google agent, which queries a ServiceNow agent for IT asset data, with zero shared architecture between the three. Danfoss validated this: it automated 80% of email-based order processing using Google’s agents, cutting response times from 42 hours to near real-time. Suzano cut query time 95% for 50,000 employees.
Google Cloud holds roughly 11% of cloud infrastructure, behind AWS at 31% and Azure at 25%, but grew 50% year on year in Q4 2025.
Monday morning: audit whether your enterprise SaaS vendors have committed to A2A support. If they haven’t, that’s a vendor selection question for your next procurement cycle.
— Nathan Zakhary