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This is a quietly important launch: cloud providers are starting to treat agents as first-class tenants rather than just another workload squeezed into existing VMs. Hardware isolation with no credentials inside targets the biggest operational fear in agentic deployments — a compromised agent pivoting through stored keys. The bet is that isolation-per-agent becomes the default security architecture for agent fleets, and whoever ships it first sets the standard. The open question is economics: a microVM per agent could get expensive at scale, so pricing will decide whether this becomes an industry pattern or a niche enterprise option. Expect AWS and Azure to answer quickly.
Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service that gives every AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM with no credentials inside. It already runs Gemini agents and enters preview in the coming months. The post Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A Micro…

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