Google Cloud plans to let customers run their own AI agents on Agent Compute Engine, the compute service that already runs Gemini as an agent for work tasks. Every agent gets its own hardware-isolated microVM, and Google says the sandbox holds no credentials at all.

The company introduced the service on Thursday at AGNTCon + MCPCon, the Linux Foundation event in San Jose. It will be available in preview “in the coming months,” Nirav Mehta, Michael Bachman and Kevin Hutchins wrote in the launch post . Neither that post nor the companion technical write-up lists pricing.

Google said it expects every team building agents to run into the problems it hit with Gemini. In a deep dive , Google Distinguished Engineers Ramanathan Venkatapathy and Rohit Jnagal wrote that a traditional VM takes seconds to minutes to start, suspend or resume, which adds up for agents that do all three constantly.…