Google Announces Agent Compute Engine for Isolated AI Agents
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service that assigns each AI agent a hardware-isolated microVM protected by its Titanium security architecture. The service already powers Gemini and is expected to open for preview in the coming months; idle agent VMs can pause automatically, while Agent Gateway keeps enterprise credentials outside the execution environment. Google also said its open-source Agent Substrate Kubernetes runtime can fit ten times as many agents on one server and completed suspend-and-resume operations in under 500 milliseconds in a test involving 200,000 agents.
The service combines per-agent isolation, credential management and compute-efficient pausing, addressing infrastructure requirements for running AI agents that execute code and access enterprise systems.
Google's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine
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Oct 22, 2026
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service that gives each AI agent its own isolated virtual machine. The service already powers Gemini and will open for preview in the coming months. Every agent runs inside a microVM secured by Google's Titanium chip, the company says. When an agent idles, its VM pauses automatically and frees up the machine for others. Shared memory between VMs cuts what each one costs to run. VMs are a pretty huge cost factor when providing agentic systems, so Google is going after efficiency here.
This is also behind the open-sourced Agent Substrate, a Kubernetes runtime. Google says it can fit ten times as many agents on a single server. In a test with 200,000 agents, suspend and resume took less than 500 milliseconds, according to Google. On the oversight side, Google is adding token tracking, model routing, and support for third-party identity providers like Ping Identity and SailPoint. Those controls will extend to Cloud Run, GKE, and managed endpoints.
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