Audience

Developers and platform teams building or operating AI agents for interactive assistants, coding, browser-based tasks, enterprise workflows, and large-scale evaluation or reinforcement-learning workloads.

About Agent Compute Engine

Agent Compute Engine is a managed Google Cloud compute service that provides execution environments for AI agents. Each agent receives a hardware-isolated microVM with its own guest kernel and root-level control. The service supports rapid startup, pausing, checkpointing, snapshots, and resume workflows. Persistent workspaces retain agent files and context across sessions, while copy-on-write memory sharing supports parallel environments from common images. Agents can run code, shell commands, and browser actions in isolated sandboxes, with governed access to enterprise data through Google Cloud networking and identity controls. Developers can configure environment images, identity, network access, and lifecycle while Google manages the underlying compute fleet. The platform is designed for interactive assistants, coding agents, browser-based tasks, and large-scale evaluation and reinforcement-learning workloads.

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Google
Founded: 1998
United States
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Agent Compute Engine architecture diagram showing a customer environment, control plane, lifecycle API, scheduler, policy and identity, microVMs, data-plane API, gateway, storage, and destination services.

Agent Compute Engine architecture diagram showing a customer environment, control plane, lifecycle API, scheduler, policy and identity, microVMs, data-plane API, gateway, storage, and destination services.

Agent Compute Engine architecture diagram showing a customer environment, control plane, lifecycle API, scheduler, policy and identity, microVMs, data-plane API, gateway, storage, and destination services. Diagram showing clients passing through an Agent Gateway to agents and then another Agent Gateway connected to tools, models, and APIs, with registry, authorization, security, and observability controls. Architecture diagram showing a user, front end, agent gateways, an agent identity runtime, agents, tools, models, APIs, agent registry, AI security, access authorization, and AI observability. Diagram showing users and apps flowing through an agent harness, model, sessions, and memory to execution sandboxes, lifecycle controls, a gateway, and governance functions. Four cards defining User Identity, Agent On-behalf-of Identity, Agent Workload Identity, and Agent Workforce Identity.
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Agent Compute Engine Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Agent Compute Engine work with?
Agent Compute Engine works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Agent Compute Engine support in their product?
Agent Compute Engine supports these languages: English.
Q: What other applications or services does Agent Compute Engine integrate with?
Agent Compute Engine integrates with: Google Cloud Platform.

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