Amazon Bedrock Agent Benchmarked Orchestrating Google ADK Worker Across AWS and GCP

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A developer has built and documented a cross-cloud currency conversion benchmark in which an Amazon Bedrock master agent, hosted on AWS AgentCore Runtime in us-east-1, delegates tasks to a Google ADK worker running on GCP Cloud Run in us-central1 via the A2A v1.0 protocol. The master agent uses three evaluation modes — MCP-only, A2A-only, and a verified cross-check — to measure latency, reliability, and result accuracy across cloud boundaries. Both agents independently query the same Frankfurter daily exchange-rate API, ensuring any disagreements reflect protocol or model behavior rather than data-source differences. The benchmark also draws comparisons with a prior run using Microsoft Azure, making it one of the few tests to span components across AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously. The project aims to move beyond basic connectivity smoke tests and provide a reproducible interoperability benchmark for multi-cloud agent orchestration.

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