Compute Engine

Changed: The following operations on the boot disk of a Compute Engine instance that has a service account attached require the iam.serviceAccounts.actAs permission on the service account. In the…

Mar 19, 2026Read more

Compute Enginefeature

Generally available: The maximum throughput for a Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disk is increased to 2,400 MiB/s from 1,200 MiB/s.

Mar 19, 2026Read more

Compute Engine

Issue: To address high-severity kernel vulnerabilities (including CVE-2025-21756 and CVE-2025-38052) in Rocky Linux 8 and 9,...

To address high-severity kernel vulnerabilities (including <a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21756">CVE-2025-21756</a> and <a…

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Compute Enginefeature

When you autoscale a managed instance group (MIG), you can monitor the configured group size and the size recommended...

Mar 10, 2026Read more

Compute Engine

Issue: For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system, VM Manager provides vulnerability scanning results based on the...

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system, VM Manager provides vulnerability scanning results based on the latest minor version for each major version released. If your VM runs an earlier…

Mar 5, 2026Read more

Compute Enginefeature

Generally available: You can use instance flexibility to improve resource availability when creating VMs in bulk in a region.

Feb 12, 2026Read more

Compute Enginefeature

Preview: You can use consistency groups of instant snapshots to back up a group of disks at the same point in time,...

Feb 10, 2026Read more

Compute Enginefeature

You can autoscale a managed instance group (MIG) that has instance flexibility configured.

Feb 9, 2026Read more

Compute Engine

Preview: To control the use of the deprecated container startup agent, an option for deploying containers on Compute...

Generally available: The maximum throughput for a Hyperdisk ML disk is increased to 2,097,152 MiB/s from 1,200,000 MiB/s.

Security: A vulnerability (CVE-2026-23268) about CrackArmor was discovered and has been addressed.

Generally available: The maximum throughput for a Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disk is increased to 2,400 MiB/s from 1,200 MiB/s.

Preview: The instance flexibility policy of a managed instance group (MIG) lets you override the minimum CPU platform...

Breaking: Changed: The following operations on the boot disk of a Compute Engine instance that has a service account attached...

Generally available: The maximum throughput for a Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disk is increased to 2,400 MiB/s from 1,200 MiB/s.

Issue: To address high-severity kernel vulnerabilities (including CVE-2025-21756 and CVE-2025-38052) in Rocky Linux 8 and 9,...

When you autoscale a managed instance group (MIG), you can monitor the configured group size and the size recommended...

Issue: For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system, VM Manager provides vulnerability scanning results based on the...

Generally available: You can use managed constraints with Organization Policy Service for centralized, programmatic...

Generally available: You can apply compact placement policies to standalone Flex-start VMs.

Generally available: H4D VMs, designed for high performance computing (HPC) workloads, are now generally available.

Generally available: You can use Hyperdisk Exapools for large-scale workloads, such as AI and machine learning, that...

After March 17, 2026, when you enable Compute Engine, the Compute Engine MCP server is automatically enabled.

Control of MCP use with organization policies is deprecated.

Generally available: You can use instance flexibility to improve resource availability when creating VMs in bulk in a region.

Preview: You can use consistency groups of instant snapshots to back up a group of disks at the same point in time,...

You can autoscale a managed instance group (MIG) that has instance flexibility configured.