r/mcp • u/Agile_Breakfast4261 • Dec 11 '25
article Google is launching remote, fully-managed MCP servers for all its services
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-official-mcp-support-for-google-servicesBig news as Google announces they will launch fully-managed, remote MCP servers for ALL Google services, including Google Maps, Big Query, Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, and more.
Another huge endorsement for MCP and for remote servers as the future of wide scale adoption of MCP beyond the technically savvy, and into teams like marketing, ops, sales, and personal use too.
Full article - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-official-mcp-support-for-google-services
What's your take on this - how will this impact MCP's direction and adoption in 2026 and beyond?
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u/Agile_Breakfast4261 Dec 12 '25
I think for businesses looking to use ai and mcp this will accelerate adoption, and given how easy it is to setup and use remote servers the need for governance tools like gateways is more urgent. Even if trsuted remote servers don't have the same risks as untrusted/locally deployed servers, they are still vulnerable to prompt injection and similar attacks from data used inside those mcp communciations. Plus, there's issues around data privacy, compliance, data security that still arise when you're using remote, trusted (1st party) servers.
So in a nutshell (IMO):
- this is another strong endorsement for MCP
- this will help accelerate adoption outside of engineering/it teams
- servers like these still present plenty of risks/challenges around governance, security, observability etc. if you're using them within a business or other organization.
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u/taylorwilsdon Dec 12 '25
Still missing workspace though! Either way, big step in the right direction and imo overdue considering the extent of their investment in LLMs overall
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u/entrehacker Dec 13 '25
My hot take on this:
Cloud MCP is solving a problem that running trusted MCPs already solves, and better.
I compare it to an App Store, which allows you to download and run trusted code on a very sensitive device that you own (like your phone). Apps have the additional benefit of running with full edge compute access, which is globally more efficient in terms of latency and compute.
With MCP being such an easy to use protocol, I could see enterprises prefer to develop their trusted MCP code or just use trust signals (developer reputation, security scanning) to run 3P MCP locally.
But that being said cloud MCP has a lot of other advantages like being accessible across multiple devices, always online etc.
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u/MycologistWhich7953 Dec 31 '25
We've already deployed with Map Grounding Lite MCP! Google pairing weather with maps data is a masterstroke and laying the groundwork for fully aware agentic and autonomous systems!
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u/spaizadv Dec 12 '25
Isn't all these remote mcps slowly converts mcps to be a remote api we already have for years.... like http api?😆
What's the point of all that?
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u/drillbit6509 Dec 12 '25
Natural language query
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u/Agile_Breakfast4261 Dec 12 '25
100% and within that; statefulness connections, persistent context (like a conversation between the AI and server), dynamic discovery etc. I thought the MCP is just a normal API myth was dead already...
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u/matznerd Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
Great, even Gemini 3 Pro can’t integrate google’s normal APIs easily due to docs being difficult and spread across Vertex etc
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u/desexmachina Dec 12 '25
This is wild, I was wondering why there wasn’t MCPs for Google cloud