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Google Distributed Cloud

Google Distributed Cloud provides fully managed hardware and software solutions that extend Google Cloud infrastructure and services to the edge and into customer data centers. It supports both connected and air-gapped deployments, enabling organizations to run workloads locally while leveraging Google Cloud management, security, and services.

Google Distributed Cloud publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Networks API, Routers API, Subnets API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Distributed Infrastructure, Edge Computing, Hardware, Hybrid Cloud, and Kubernetes.

The Google Distributed Cloud catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Google Distributed Cloud’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, pricing, support, and 11 more developer resources.

62.0/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
5 APIs
Distributed InfrastructureEdge ComputingHardwareHybrid CloudKubernetesOn-Premises

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 62.0/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

GDC Hardware Management API

The GDC Hardware Management API provides programmatic access to manage hardware lifecycle for Google Distributed Cloud deployments. Developers can use the API to track hardware ...

Google Distributed Cloud Networks API

Operations for managing edge networks

Google Distributed Cloud Routers API

Operations for managing edge routers

Google Distributed Cloud Subnets API

Operations for managing subnets within edge networks

Google Distributed Cloud Zones API

Operations for listing available edge zones

Postman Collections 4

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Google Distributed Cloud Context

0 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Distributed Cloud API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Google Distributed Cloud API Rules

18 rules · 11 errors 5 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Google Distributed Cloud Edge Network

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Google Distributed Cloud Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Distributed Cloud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Distributed Cloud Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Distributed Cloud Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Google Distributed Cloud Agentic Access

7 operations · 3 acting

7 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: google-distributed-cloud
name: Google Distributed Cloud
description: Google Distributed Cloud provides fully managed hardware and software solutions that extend Google Cloud infrastructure
  and services to the edge and into customer data centers. It supports both connected and air-gapped deployments, enabling
  organizations to run workloads locally while leveraging Google Cloud management, security, and services.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-distributed-cloud.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-distributed-cloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Distributed Infrastructure
- Edge Computing
- Hardware
- Hybrid Cloud
- Kubernetes
- On-Premises
apis:
- name: GDC Hardware Management API
  description: The GDC Hardware Management API provides programmatic access to manage hardware lifecycle for Google Distributed
    Cloud deployments. Developers can use the API to track hardware orders, manage hardware groups, monitor hardware status,
    and handle site-level hardware configurations.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/connected/docs
  baseURL: https://gdchardwaremanagement.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Hardware
  - Infrastructure
  - Provisioning
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/connected/docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
- aid: google-distributed-cloud:google-distributed-cloud-networks-api
  name: Google Distributed Cloud Networks API
  description: Operations for managing edge networks
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs
  baseURL: https://edgenetwork.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Networks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-distributed-cloud-networks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/docs/overview
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-distributed-cloud-network-schema.json
- aid: google-distributed-cloud:google-distributed-cloud-routers-api
  name: Google Distributed Cloud Routers API
  description: Operations for managing edge routers
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs
  baseURL: https://edgenetwork.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Routers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-distributed-cloud-routers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/docs/overview
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-distributed-cloud-network-schema.json
- aid: google-distributed-cloud:google-distributed-cloud-subnets-api
  name: Google Distributed Cloud Subnets API
  description: Operations for managing subnets within edge networks
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs
  baseURL: https://edgenetwork.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Subnets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-distributed-cloud-subnets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/docs/overview
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-distributed-cloud-network-schema.json
- aid: google-distributed-cloud:google-distributed-cloud-zones-api
  name: Google Distributed Cloud Zones API
  description: Operations for listing available edge zones
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs
  baseURL: https://edgenetwork.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Zones
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-distributed-cloud-zones-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/latest/docs/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/docs/overview
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-distributed-cloud-network-schema.json
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-distributed-cloud/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-distributed-cloud-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-distributed-cloud-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-distributed-cloud-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-distributed-cloud-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-distributed-cloud-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform
- type: Portal
  url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/docs/overview
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/docs
- type: Authentication
  url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/edge/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cloud.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloud.google.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloud/docs/support
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/google-distributed-cloud-context.jsonld
- type: Integrations
  url: https://cloud.google.com/marketplace
integrations:
- name: Become a Partner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com