Google Cloud unveils Agent Compute Engine for AI agents

The new compute service runs AI agents inside hardware-isolated microVMs and is already powering Google's own Gemini agents Google Cloud has a new home for AI agents, and it comes with locks on every door. The company unveiled Agent Compute Engine on October 22, 2026, at the AGNTCon + MCPCon events. It is a compute service built specifically for running AI agents at scale. At its core, Agent Compute Engine runs workloads inside hardware-isolated microVMs . Each one gets a dedicated guest kernel and root access. That isolation matters because agents do things. They run code, call tools and touch data on behalf of users. Google says the service is tuned for the fast churn and heavy demands typical of agent workloads.

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