Google Cloud Unveils Agent Compute Engine: Hardware-Isolated microVMs for Every AI Agent
rseroter · x · 2026-10-23
- Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine (ACE), a new service giving each AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM with container-speed startup and zero credentials inside the sandbox.
- Motivation: agentic workloads have become one of the fastest-growing compute/storage consumers in Google's fleet; traditional compute primitives can't run hundreds of millions of agents at required cost and latency.
- Architecture: a shared pool of multi-region bare-metal hosts isolated via Cloud Hypervisor; a control plane handles lifecycle, scheduling, policy, and metering; a data plane uses a VSOCK command channel plus an egress proxy for all outbound traffic, with credential injection kept outside the microVM so agent code can't read credentials.
- Supports snapshot, restore, and pause; customers control image, identity, egress policy, and lifecycle. Google itself runs key services on ACE.
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