Google Cloud unveils Agent Compute Engine for AI agents

What happened

The company unveiled Agent Compute Engine on October 22, 2026, at the AGNTCon + MCPCon events. Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View, and its products and services include Software tools.

22, 2026 Google Cloud has a new home for AI agents, and it comes with locks on every door. It is a compute service built specifically for running AI agents at scale.

What Google actually built 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. In practice, that means agents can start quickly, pause, and then resume later.

The density trick and the security layer The second headline feature is copy-on-write memory sharing .