Google Cloud launches Agent Compute Engine, one microVM per agent
Original title: Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Customer preview is months away; open-source Agent Substrate is already on GKE for non-production use.
Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, which runs each AI agent session in a hardware-isolated microVM that holds no credentials. Google says it already powers Gemini as an agent, Antigravity, and internal evaluation and reinforcement-learning pipelines, and unveiled it at AGNTCon + MCPCon. Idle sandboxes are checkpointed to zero active resources. The Kubernetes counterpart, Agent Substrate, is open for non-production GKE use, with production GA allowlist-only.
Unconfirmed: Boot time, density, pricing and a firm preview date for Agent Compute Engine itself were not published.
- Guests receive only a session-scoped SPIFFE certificate and a short-lived identity token.
- MicroVMs have no standard network interface, default gateway or direct VPC access.
- Agent Substrate reported 500 activations per second under 500 ms across 200,000 agents.
- Google also cites over 1,000 dormant agents per host and up to 10x density.
- No ACE boot time, density, pricing or firm preview date was published.
- Vendors
- Google Cloud
- AI models
- Gemini
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Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service that gives every AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM with no credentials inside. It already runs Gemini agents and enters preview in the coming months. The post Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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