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# Google Cloud launches Agent Compute Engine for sandboxed agent runtimes

## Retrieval answer

Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine on October 22, 2026, a purpose-built service for running agent workloads in hardware-isolated microVM sandboxes.

Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine on October 22, 2026, a purpose-built service for running agent workloads in hardware-isolated microVM sandboxes. Google says the service already powers Gemini for business work tasks and will enter preview in the coming months.

The service uses rapid-boot microVMs, copy-on-write memory sharing, checkpoint-and-restore for idle sessions, Hyperdisk persistence, and short-lived per-agent credentials. Google says credentials are injected outside the microVM, while Agent Gateway provides observability, policy, and security evaluation. The runtime uses Titanium IPUs and a Cloud Hypervisor boundary.

Google also open-sourced Agent Substrate for GKE, a Kubernetes-native runtime supporting microVM or gVisor isolation. Google reports up to 10x compute density versus traditional compute and, in a 200,000-agent benchmark, 500 activations per second with under-500 ms suspend-and-resume latency. The announcement does not provide preview dates, pricing, regional availability, independent benchmark validation, or general-availability terms.

Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/introducing-agent-compute-engine-and-expanded-agent-governance

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