Agent Compute Engine
Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service that gives each AI agent session its own hardware-isolated microVM that holds no backend credentials.
Each agent session runs in a microVM with its own guest kernel, root access and Hyperdisk, instead of a container. Credentials are injected on the wire by Google's Titanium Infrastructure Processing Unit, which holds the attestation keys outside the guest, so a prompt injection attacker finds no secrets in the sandbox. Google says it already powers Gemini as an agent for work tasks.
- Date
- Thursday 22 October 2026
- Lab
- Google Cloud
- Kind
- product
- Access
- research preview
Announced at AGNTCon + MCPCon in San Jose. Customer preview is targeted for the coming months, with no public API or pricing yet.
Sources
- marktechpost.com/2026/10/22/google-cloud-agent-compute-engine-microvm-ai-agents/
- techtimes.com/articles/329428/20261023/google-cloud-unveils-agent-compute-engine-ai-agent-
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