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Oct 22, 2026

Google launches Agent Compute Engine with hardware-isolated microVMs for AI agents

Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service that gives each AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM, designed specifically for running AI agents in production.

Oct 22, 2026·2 sources

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▪Google Agent Compute Engine gives agent harnesses capabilities for cloning, snapshotting, forking, rewind, and rollback
▪Google Agent Compute Engine splits storage into disposable scratch overlays, shared read-only volumes, and persistent user workspaces hosted on Hyperdisk
▪In a 200,000-agent benchmark, Agent Substrate achieved 500 activations per second, suspend/resume times under 500 milliseconds, and over 1,000 dormant agents per host

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Agent gateway1 Agent permissions1 AI agents1 AI security1 Claude Code1 Cloud Computing1 Computing infrastructure1 Google Kubernetes Engine1 Hyperscale cloud provider1 Policy enforcement1

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