Artificial intelligence / news brief
Google Cloud unveils isolated microVM infrastructure for AI agents
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Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a managed service that gives each agent a hardware-isolated microVM with persistent storage, short-lived identity and credentials injected outside the sandbox. It already underpins Google workloads, but customer preview is only targeted for the coming months and pricing is undisclosed.
Why it matters
Purpose-built agent runtimes could make long-lived coding and browser agents safer and more resource-efficient, but customers cannot yet test Google’s managed service.
Sources
- Introducing Agent Compute Engine and expanded agent governance (external site)Google Cloud · primary source ·
- Google turns the infrastructure behind Gemini’s agents into a cloud service (external site)The New Stack · coverage ·
- Google Cloud introduces Agent Compute Engine to host AI agents (external site)SiliconANGLE · coverage ·