Google is using the Gartner “Leader” badge to frame Vertex AI as a full-stack AI app platform, from Gemini 3 models to agent orchestration and observability, all riding on Google’s global data center and network footprint.
The real infra signals are reserved GPU capacity via Provisioned Throughput, data gravity handled through pre-built connectors and DRZ / Google Distributed Cloud for on-prem and edge, plus security layers like Model Armor and IAM-integrated agent identities that matter when you’re wiring agents into production systems.
If you care about where to run GPU-heavy agent workloads at scale, this is essentially Google’s pitch that Vertex AI is now a first-tier, cost-predictable and sovereignty-aware alternative worth benchmarking against other clouds, and the linked Gartner report gives more color on how they stack up.
Source: Google Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ | Google Cloud Blog
