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Google previews Agent Compute Engine with one microVM per agent

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What's new

October 23: MarkTechPost adds SPIFFE session certificates, no guest network path, Antigravity support, and a different 200,000-agent performance figure.

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Google Cloud's Agent Compute Engine isolates each agent in a microVM; a customer preview is still months away.

Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, which runs each AI agent session in a hardware-isolated microVM secured by its Titanium chip. The Decoder says it already powers Gemini and will open for preview in the coming months. MarkTechPost says it also powers Antigravity and internal evaluation and reinforcement-learning pipelines, was unveiled at AGNTCon + MCPCon, and that sandboxes hold no credentials and have no direct guest network path. Idle VMs pause or checkpoint. Open-source Agent Substrate, a Kubernetes runtime, is available for non-production GKE use, with production GA allowlist-only; Google says it can fit up to ten times as many agents on one server. The Decoder says a 200,000-agent test suspended and resumed in under 500 milliseconds; MarkTechPost instead reports 500 activations per second under 500 ms across 200,000 agents. Pricing, boot time, and a firm preview date were not published.

Key facts
  • Customer preview is planned in the coming months; no firm date.
  • Guests get a session-scoped SPIFFE certificate and a short-lived identity token.
  • MicroVMs have no standard NIC, default gateway, or direct VPC access.
  • Agent Substrate is non-production on GKE; production GA is allowlist-only.
  • Google cites over 1,000 dormant agents per host and up to 10x density.
  • Named identity providers include Ping Identity and SailPoint.
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What each outlet adds

beyond the shared facts
  • The DecoderTitanium isolation, identity providers, and oversight features across Cloud Run and GKE.
  • MarkTechPostNo credentials or guest network path; non-production Substrate status and activation rate.
Vendors
GoogleGoogle Cloud
Products
Agent Compute EngineAgent SubstrateCloud RunGKEAntigravity
Organizations
Ping IdentitySailPoint
AI models
Gemini

Coverage

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  1. · 3d ago The DecoderFirst report

    Google Agent Compute Engine gives each Gemini agent its own microVM

    A preview is planned in the coming months; Google says 200,000 agents suspended and resumed in under 500 milliseconds.

  2. · 2d ago MarkTechPost

    Google Cloud launches Agent Compute Engine, one microVM per agent

    Customer preview is months away; open-source Agent Substrate is already on GKE for non-production use.