# GCP Best Practices [ARCHIVED] > Arkivert 2026-05-27 — erstattet av docs/GCP_Best_Practices.md # GCP Best Practices — propane-will-491900-m5 ## Platform context (2025–2026) - **Vertex AI Agent Engine** has been rebranded as **Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform**. Agent runtimes are fully managed serverless — no VM management required. - **ADK (Agent Development Kit)** 2.0 is open-source, supports Python/TypeScript/Go/Java/Kotlin. Agents run locally for dev, then deploy to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run, or GKE. - Region: **us-central1** for all resources (low latency, widest feature availability).