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Turn your REST APIs into MCP tools with Google Cloud API Gateway- Google Developers Blog
Google Developers · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Google Cloud API Gateway now exposes REST APIs as Model Context Protocol tools in public preview, eliminating need for separate MCP servers.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building agents that need to call enterprise REST APIs securely with shared authentication, quota, and logging policies.
- Watch out
- Public preview; MCP and model routing cannot coexist in same config; operations returning empty bodies unsupported; max 1,000 tools per gateway.
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