Google Cloud details secure Gemini Enterprise-Snowflake data connection

[Google Cloud] Google Cloud published a technical guide on securely connecting Gemini Enterprise to Snowflake using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK). According to Google Cloud, the architecture lets business users ask questions in natural language; the ADK agent passes the question to a Snowflake Cortex Agent exposed through the Snowflake MCP server, which translates it into SQL via the Cortex Analyst semantic view and executes it inside Snowflake's governed boundary using the authenticated user's OAuth session and role privileges, returning structured results to the agent. Google Cloud said the approach provides deterministic text-to-SQL translation and reduces the risk of schema hallucinations or unvalidated SQL execution. The guide describes this custom orchestration pattern as aimed at developers building complex multi-agent systems on Google Cloud, while standard enterprise use cases can use joint solutions.