Compute Engine

Generally available: You can sync a Compute Engine VM's clock with its host server's clock by using chrony and ptp_kvm to achieve accuracy designed to be…

Generally available: You can sync a Compute Engine VM's clock with its host server's clock by using chrony and ptp_kvm to achieve accuracy designed to be within 1 ms. Accurate time synchronization is supported in all standard public Google Cloud regions and zones.

Generally available: When you reserve compute resources for H4D instances through your account team, you can include a Hyperdisk pool in the same request or in…

Generally available: When you reserve compute resources for H4D instances through your account team, you can include a Hyperdisk pool in the same request or in a subsequent request.

Version 20260921.00 of the guest agent is now available for all supported operating systems.

This version introduces the following features:

Generally available: Z3 machine types that have 8 to 44 vCPUs can use Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability volumes to synchronously replicate data across two…

Generally available: Z3 machine types that have 8 to 44 vCPUs can use Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability volumes to synchronously replicate data across two zones.

Preview: External IPv6 addresses are now supported for Standard Tier.

For more information, see IPv6 subnet ranges.

Version 20260921.00 of the guest agent is now available for all supported operating systems.

This version introduces the following fixes:

Generally available: Expanded machine series support for sharing the same Hyperdisk volume between instances:

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Generally available: You can specify a 120-second preemption notice duration while creating Spot VMs.

Use this feature for workloads on Spot VMs where you want up to an additional 120 seconds for handling preemption. If you want to migrate existing Spot VMs workloads, make sure you update your workload to handle preemption outside of a shutdown script and test preemption.

Generally available: You can create a standard or archive snapshot of a disk and protect the snapshot with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK), even if…

Generally available: You can create a standard or archive snapshot of a disk and protect the snapshot with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK), even if the source disk isn't protected with a CMEK.

Interface-based versioning (IBV) for the Compute Engine API is now generally available.

IBV lets you call a specific, date-based API version so you can adopt API changes on your own schedule.

Preview: Compute Engine API version 2026-10-01-preview is now available in Preview.

In this version, the quotas field is no longer available in responses from the projects.get, regions.get, and regions.list methods. To view and manage quota information, use the Cloud Quotas API.

Generally available: Compute Engine API version 2026-09-01 is now generally available.

In this version, aggregatedList methods return partial results by default when a scope is unreachable. The returnPartialSuccess query parameter is no longer available in aggregatedList and list methods.

Allowlisted GA: You can expose the host ID of a Compute Engine instance to verify its physical location in relation to other compute instances in your Google…

Allowlisted GA: You can expose the host ID of a Compute Engine instance to verify its physical location in relation to other compute instances in your Google Cloud organization.

Generally available: The C4D machine series supports Hyperdisk Throughput.

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Generally available: New X5 series with 50% larger memory instances: Breaking the previous 32TB memory limit of the X4 memory-optimized machine type, a new X5…

Generally available: New X5 series with 50% larger memory instances: Breaking the previous 32TB memory limit of the X4 memory-optimized machine type, a new X5 series introduces massive 48TB configurations.

Preview: To protect standard snapshots from accidental or malicious deletion, Compute Engine retains deleted snapshots in the recycle bin for three days before…

Preview: To protect standard snapshots from accidental or malicious deletion, Compute Engine retains deleted snapshots in the recycle bin for three days before permanently erasing the snapshots.

Support for Intel TDX on c4-standard-* machine types is generally available (GA).

Support for Intel TDX on c4-standard-* machine types is generally available ( GA ).

As of September 15, 2026, NVIDIA P100 (nvidia-tesla-p100 and nvidia-tesla-p100-vws) GPUs have reached end of support (EOS) and are shut down.

As of September 15, 2026, NVIDIA P100 ( nvidia-tesla-p100 and nvidia-tesla-p100-vws ) GPUs have reached end of support (EOS) and are shut down. You can no longer create, launch, or access Compute Engine instances or other Google Cloud resources that use NVIDIA P100 GPUs.

NVIDIA T4 (nvidia-tesla-t4 and nvidia-tesla-t4-vws) and NVIDIA P4 (nvidia-tesla-p4 and nvidia-tesla-p4-vws) GPUs are deprecated and will reach end of support…

NVIDIA T4 ( nvidia-tesla-t4 and nvidia-tesla-t4-vws ) and NVIDIA P4 ( nvidia-tesla-p4 and nvidia-tesla-p4-vws ) GPUs are deprecated and will reach end of support (EOS) on August 1, 2027.

Generally available: The storage-optimized Z4D machine series is generally available for Compute Engine.

Powered by AMD EPYC Turin processors and Titanium offload processors, Z4D instances are purpose-built for low core usage and high storage density workloads such as: