Google Agent Builder + ADK

Google

Vendor

Open platform pairing the Agent Development Kit with managed agent services on Vertex AI.

Proprietary service + open source SDK

Strengths

Practitioner note

Useful when Vertex AI, search, and Google-first app surfaces matter, but maturity and enterprise standardisation still need close validation.

Reviewed 2026-05-26

PartialData residency

US/EU multi-region controls (CMEK, VPC-SC); not all features single-region. ADK self-hosted is customer-controlled.

YesDeployment model

Managed Agent Builder on Vertex AI (SaaS); ADK is an Apache-2.0 SDK deployable anywhere. (saas, self-hosted)

YesAudit logging

Cloud Audit Logs record admin/data operations; Agent Engine supports Cloud Logging/Trace.

YesSOC 2

Google Cloud / Vertex AI holds SOC 1/2/3.

YesISO 27001

Holds ISO 27001/27017/27018/27701.

PartialISO 42001

Google Cloud holds ISO/IEC 42001 broadly; Agent Builder not individually enumerated in the public scope.

N/AEU AI Act

Agent orchestration platform/SDK; GPAI obligations attach to Google as model provider and to deployers. (role: not-applicable)

YesLicense risk

Managed layer proprietary (Vertex AI); ADK is Apache-2.0. Blended medium. (medium)

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