Platform engineeringGoogle's borderless lakehouse wires AWS, Databricks and Snowflake catalogs into one Iceberg REST surface
Google Cloud has pushed a preview of catalog federation that lets BigQuery and Managed Spark read AWS Glue, Databricks Unity Catalog and Snowflake Horizon through an Iceberg REST catalog, and shipped an open-source Data Agent Kit that hands the same tables to MCP-speaking agents. For pipeline teams the practical shift is that the protocol coding agents already talk now reaches a synchronised view of a multi-cloud data estate.