Compute Engine release notes

This page contains the latest release notes for features and updates to the Compute Engine service. For older release notes, see the archive.

Latest API version: v1

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November 26, 2024

Preview: Use the disk performance status metric to monitor the health of your Hyperdisk or Persistent Disk volumes. This metric indicates whether your disks might be affected by adverse events within Compute Engine.

To learn more, see Monitor disk health.

November 19, 2024

The documentation has been updated to clarify that future reservation requests don't support E2 machine types. To reserve VMs that use E2 machine types, use on-demand reservations instead.

For more information, see Restrictions on creation.

November 18, 2024

Generally available: Queretaro, Mexico, North America (northamerica-south1-a,b,c) has launched with E2, N4, C4, and C3D VMs available in all three zones. For more information, see Global Locations and VM instance pricing.

November 13, 2024

Preview: The OS policy orchestrator feature in VM Manager lets you manage OS policy assignments across projects and zones at scale in large organizations. OS policy assignment was previously available only for zonal resources in a project. For more information, see About OS Policy Orchestrator.

November 05, 2024

Generally available: An updated version of the gVNIC driver for Windows offers improved network performance and support for Jumbo frames. For more information, see Update to the latest gVNIC driver for Windows.

November 04, 2024

Preview: You can create GPU VMs all at once in a regional managed instance group (MIG) by using resize requests. This feature was previously available only for zonal MIGs. For more information, see About resize requests in a MIG.

October 30, 2024

Generally available: General purpose C4A Arm VMs on Google's custom-built Axiom processors. C4A VMs are available as predefined configurations in sizes ranging from 1 vCPU to 72 vCPUs and up to 576 GB of DDR5 memory. C4A uses Google Cloud's latest generation storage options including Hyperdisk Balanced and Hyperdisk Extreme.

C4A VMs are available in the following regions and zones:

• Singapore - asia-southeast1-a,b,c
• Belgium - europe-west1-b,c,d
• Frankfurt - europe-west3-a,b,c
• Netherlands - europe-west4-a,b,c
• Iowa - us-central1-a,b,c
• South Carolina - us-east1-b,c,d
• Virginia - us-east4-a,b,c

Generally available: You can autoscale a regional MIG with a BALANCED target distribution shape. With the BALANCED shape, the autoscaler is aware of the capacity in each zone and creates VMs in zones that have resource availability. For more information, see Autoscaling a regional MIG.

October 25, 2024

Generally available: The A3 Edge accelerator-optimized machine type is now available. The A3 Edge machine type has NVIDIA® H100 80GB GPUs attached and provides up to 800 Gbps of network bandwidth speed depending on the region. A3 Edge VMs are ideal for inference or training ML workloads that require a single node. The A3 Edge machine type is available in the following regions and zones:

• APAC
  • Tokyo, Japan: asia-northeast1-c
  • Seoul, South Korea: asia-northeast3-a,c
  • Mumbai, India: asia-south1-c
• Europe
  • London, England: europe-west2-b
  • Frankfurt, Germany: europe-west3-a
  • Eemshaven, Netherlands: europe-west4-b
  • Milan, Italy: europe-west8-c
  • Paris, France: europe-west9-c
  • Turin, Italy: europe-west12-b
• North America
  • Toronto, Ontario: northamerica-northeast2-c

To get started with A3 Edge VMs, see Create an A3 VM.

October 23, 2024

Generally available: You can extend the term lengths of your resource-based commitments beyond the preset 1 or 3 years and choose custom term lengths such as 2, 3.5, or 5.5 years. Term extensions let you tailor commitments to match your resource usage needs and keep receiving committed use discounts (CUDs) for a longer time.

For more information, see Extend the term length of commitments.

October 16, 2024

End of life: On October 31, 2024, SLES 12 SP5 and SLES 12 SP5 for SAP are reaching end of life and the images will be deprecated on Google Cloud. If you use SLES 12 SP5 or SLES 12 SP5 for SAP images in your project, review Long Term Service Support Pack (LTSS) options.

October 15, 2024

Generally available: In addition to the A3 High machine type that has 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs attached, we now have smaller machine types available that have 1, 2, or 4 NVIDIA H100 GPUs attached. These smaller machine types are ideal for workloads such as inference, simulations, and small-scale training.

To get started, review A3 High machine types.

October 09, 2024

Public preview: Instance flexibility in a managed instance group (MIG) lets you configure multiple machine types in the group. This can improve resource availability for applications that require large-scale capacity and high-demand hardware. For more information, see About instance flexibility in MIGs.

October 08, 2024

Preview: An updated version of the gVNIC driver for Windows offers improved network performance and support for Jumbo frames. For more information, see Update to the latest gVNIC driver for Windows.

September 30, 2024

Preview: Multi-writer support for Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability disks. You can allow up to 8 VMs simultaneous read-write access to the same disk. For more information, see Share disks between VMs.

September 26, 2024

OS Login POSIX groups support is deprecated. For more information, see OS Login POSIX groups support deprecation.

September 18, 2024

You can determine the number of running VMs and reservations that match the properties of a future reservation request. By subtracting this number from the total count specified in a future reservation request, you can determine the number of reserved VMs that an existing future reservation provisions at its start time. For more information, see Determine the number of provisioned VMs.

You can create a future reservation request by reusing the properties of an existing VM. This lets you consume the auto-created reservations for the future reservation by creating VMs with properties that exactly match the reference VM's properties. For more information, see the following:

• Create future reservation requests for a single project

• Create shared future reservation requests

Generally available: Hyperdisk Balanced volumes can be created in Confidential mode and attached to Confidential VMs.

September 05, 2024

Generally available: Multi-writer support for Hyperdisk Balanced disks. Up to 8 VMs can simultaneously read from and write to the same disk. For more information, see Share disks between VMs.

September 02, 2024

Generally available: You can use the performance monitoring unit (PMU) to monitor low-level CPU events and metrics in VMs that use a C4 machine type. Using the PMU is helpful to analyze and optimize the performance of the software running on your VM when running performance-sensitive workloads, such as high-performance computing (HPC) or machine learning (ML) workloads.

For more information, see the following pages:

• PMU overview

• Enable the PMU in VMs

• Manage the PMU in VMs

August 30, 2024

Generally available: When applying a spread placement policy to VMs, you can specify the availability domain in which to place the VMs. Specifying an availability domain lets you decide how to physically locate VMs among each other, which can increase the reliability of your workload by placing VMs in different domains, or try to limit network latency among VMs by placing them in the same domain. Viewing the availability domains of your VMs is also useful for planning, deploying, or upgrading your application, as well as developing your availability SLAs.

For more information, see Create and apply spread placement policies to VMs.

The fleetwide and per-instance Observability tabs on the Compute Engine VM instances page now include charts for GPU metrics the from NVIDIA Management Library (NVML). To view the fleetwide GPU charts, select Compute Engine > VM instances > Observability. To view the GPU charts for a VM instance, select Compute Engine > VM instances, click on the name of a VM instance, and then select Observability. These charts are available only for VM instances with attached GPUs, with both the Ops Agent and the NVIDIA GPU driver installed. For information about configuring these VMs, see About the gpu metrics.

August 23, 2024

Generally available: Hyperdisk Storage Pools with Advanced Performance provisioning help you to manage the performance needs of your Hyperdisk Balanced and Hyperdisk Throughput disks. By creating your disks in a storage pool, you can provision your disks to handle peak performance spikes while also optimizing costs. For more information, see Provisioning types for Hyperdisk Storage Pools.

August 19, 2024

Generally available: General purpose C4 VMs on the Intel Emerald Rapids CPU. The C4 machine series offers consistently high performance with up to 192 vCPUs and 1.5 TB of DDR5 memory, and support for Hyperdisk storage.

C4 VMs are available in the following regions and zones:

• Singapore - asia-southeast1-a,b
• Belgium - europe-west1-b,c
• Netherlands - europe-west4-a,b,c
• Iowa - us-central1-a,b,c
• South Carolina - us-east1-b,c,d
• Virginia - us-east4-a,b,c

August 01, 2024

Generally available: You can use instant snapshots to take in-place disk backups that can be restored to new disks in under a minute.

Instant snapshots are ideal for rapid data restoration within the same location as the source disk. For more information, see Instant snapshots.

July 26, 2024

Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication can now replicate up to 12.5 GB per minute per disk of compressed changed blocks, which is an increase from the previous maximum of 2 GB per minute. This increase helps to support scaled production databases and other demanding workloads. You can read more about PD Async Replication performance in the documentation. There is no action required to use the increased performance - new and existing PD Async Replication disks automatically have more headroom to replicate.

July 16, 2024

Generally available: C3 bare metal machine types are available in the C3 machine series. Bare metal instances let you create an instance with direct access to the machine's CPU and memory, without a virtualization layer in the middle. With bare metal instances, you can access all the raw compute resources of the server. For more information, see the C3 machine series.

July 15, 2024

Compute flexible committed use discounts (CUDs)—previously known as Compute Engine flexible CUDs—have been expanded to also cover your Cloud Billing account's spend across Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run. A single flexible commitment covers your eligible spend across all three services. For more information, see Compute flexible CUDs.

To learn about how flexible CUDs apply to the other services, see the following:

• CUDs documentation for GKE
• CUDs documentation for Cloud Run

Generally available: You can limit the run time of VMs, which automatically stops or deletes a VM after a specific time or duration. Limiting your VMs' run times can help you optimize temporary workloads by minimizing costs and releasing quota. For more information, see Limit the run time of a VM and Limit the runtime of VMs in a MIG.

July 12, 2024

Preview: Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability provides cross-zonal, synchronous replication for your disk data, offering the best set of options for RPO, RTO, and performance.

July 11, 2024

You can only create on-demand reservations of A3 VMs if you create specifically targeted reservations. This restriction doesn't affect reservations that were created before July 11, 2024, which you can continue to consume based on their consumption type.

For more information, see the following pages:

• Reservations of Compute Engine zonal resources

• Create a reservation for a single project

• Create a shared reservation

July 09, 2024

Generally available: You can create GPU VMs in a managed instance group (MIG) by using resize requests. Resize requests help you create VMs all at once and give you higher chances to obtain highly demanded resources such as GPUs.

For more information, see About resize requests in a MIG.

Generally available: Hyperdisk ML, block storage designed specifically for high-performance AI workloads. Each Hyperdisk ML volume can achieve up to 1,200,000 MBps of throughput. For large-scale training and inference workloads, you can attach a single Hyperdisk ML volume to up to 2,500 VM instances. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

July 01, 2024

The issue related to creating larger (>90 vCPUs) C3D standard-lssd or highmem-lssd VM instances.

June 18, 2024

Preemptible allocation quotas also apply to some temporary GPU VMs. This behavior can help you improve quota obtainability for temporary GPU VMs while maintaining the benefits of uninterrupted run time of the standard provisioning model. For more information, see GPU VMs and preemptible allocation quotas.

The issue related to creating C2 sole tenant nodes with more than 60 CPUs.

June 17, 2024

Generally available: You can now use the Require OS Config organization policy constraint to automatically enable VM Manager for all new VMs in your organization, folder, or project. For more information, see Enable VM Manager using an organization policy.

June 14, 2024

Spot VMs are now available for the H3 machine series.

June 13, 2024

Preview: C3 bare metal machine types are available in Preview in the C3 machine series. Bare metal instances let you create an instance with direct access to the machine's CPU and memory, without a virtualization layer in the middle. With bare metal instances, you can access all the raw compute resources of the server. For more information, see the C3 machine series.

June 12, 2024

Expanded Hyperdisk Balanced support for M3 and C3 machine types: The maximum number of Hyperdisk Balanced volumes that you can use with C3 and M3 virtual machines has been increased, as follows:

• C3 VMs with 4 or 8 vCPUs now support attaching up to 16 Hyperdisk Balanced volumes.
• C3 VMs with 16 or more vCPUs support 32 Hyperdisk Balanced volumes.
• M3 virtual machines support up to 32 Hyperdisk Balanced volumes, up from 2.

For more information, see the documentation for M3 and C3 VMs.

Preview: General Purpose C4 VM instances are now available in Public Preview on the Intel Emerald Rapids CPU. The C4 machine series offers consistently high performance with up to 192 vCPUs and 1.5 TB of DDR5 memory, and support for Hyperdisk storage.

June 11, 2024

Generally available: The A3 Mega accelerator-optimized machine type is now available. The A3 Mega machine type has NVIDIA® H100 80GB GPUs attached and provides twice the network bandwidth speed when compared to A3 Standard. A3 Mega VMs can be used to support your large artificial intelligence (AI) models, machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The A3 machine type is available in the following regions and zones:

• APAC
  • Singapore: asia-southeast1-b
• Europe
  • Netherlands: europe-west4-b,c
• North America
  • Iowa: us-central1-a,c
  • Virginia: us-east4-a,b
  • Ohio:us-east5-a
  • Oregon: us-west1-a,b
  • Nevada: us-west4-a

To get started with A3 Mega VMs, see Run large-scale model training and fine-tuning.

C3 and C3D VMs are available in the following regions and zones:

C3:

• asia-northeast1-b Tokyo, Japan
• europe-west3-b,c Frankfurt, Germany
• us-west1-a,b The Dalles, OR
• us-west2-a Los Angeles, CA
• us-south1-a Dallas, TX

C3D:

• australia-southeast1-c Sydney, Australia
• europe-west3-c Frankfurt, Germany
• us-west4-a Las Vegas, NV

June 05, 2024

You can't provision C2 sole tenant nodes with 60 vCPUs. For details, see Known issues.

June 04, 2024

You can now order and request quota for X4 bare metal instances. You create bare metal instances using a new predefined machine type for the X4 memory-optimized machine series. X4 instances can be used to host the largest production SAP HANA databases. For more information, see the X4 machine series.

May 31, 2024

Creating a larger (>90 vCPUs) C3D standard-lssd or highmem-lssd VM results in an error message. See Known issues for the workaround. Larger C3D VMs that don't require -lssd are not impacted.

May 15, 2024

Generally Available: Advanced maintenance control for sole-tenancy lets you control planned maintenance events for sole-tenant node groups and minimize maintenance-related disruptions. This feature is available only for sole-tenant node groups. To use this feature with your existing virtual machines, you must first move your VMs to sole-tenant node groups that have advanced maintenance control enabled.

The advanced maintenance control for sole-tenancy feature lets you:

• Check for maintenance events scheduled for a sole-tenant node 28 days in advance.
• Trigger maintenance immediately or schedule it for later. Note that if you trigger maintenance immediately, the maintenance takes place within 6 hours from the time you trigger the request.

For more information, see Advanced maintenance control for sole-tenancy.

May 08, 2024

Preview: You can now use the Require OS Config organization policy constraint to automatically enable VM Manager for all new VMs in your organization, folder, or project. For more information, see Enable VM Manager using an organization policy.

April 30, 2024

The global serial console gateway is deprecated. For more information, see Global serial console gateway deprecation.

April 29, 2024

Starting the week of April 29, 2024, when you limit the run time of a standalone VM or a VM in a managed instance group (MIG), the following changes take effect:

• When you stop or suspend a VM that has a time limit, the time limit will no longer be automatically removed. Whenever you start or resume the VM, its time limit is reapplied until you update or remove the time limit. If a VM's time limit is defined as a specific time and that time has passed, you can't rerun the VM until you update or remove its time limit.

• When a VM in a MIG reaches its time limit, the MIG deletes that VM instead of repairing it.

For more information, see Limit the run time of a VM and Limit the run time of VMs in a MIG.

April 26, 2024

Generally available: Zonal metadata (previously known as project zonal metadata) is custom metadata that you define at a zonal scope within a project and provides information about VMs in that specific zone. Zonal metadata helps you with fault isolation and provides greater reliability. By setting custom zonal metadata, you gain more control over the metadata for VMs in your project and limit the impact of any incorrect metadata updates to VMs within a specific zone.

To get started working with zonal metadata, see Set custom zonal metadata.

April 19, 2024

General purpose C3 VMs are now available in Sydney, (australia-southeast1-c).

April 16, 2024

Generally available: Z3 VMs, which offer the latest compute, networking, and storage innovations in one platform with a particular focus on high density, high performing Local SSD are now available on Compute Engine. For more information, see Storage-optimized machine family.

Generally available: Hyperdisk Balanced is available with M1 and M2 VMs. Hyperdisk Balanced is a good fit for a wide range of use cases such as LOB applications, and medium-tier databases that don't require the performance of Hyperdisk Extreme. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

April 09, 2024

Generally available: N4 VMs are generally available on the Intel Emerald Rapids CPU with 640 GB DDR5 memory. The N4 machine series offers predefined and custom machine types with extended memory and Hyperdisk Balanced storage.

N4 VMs are available in limited regions and zones.

See VM pricing for cost details.

Generally available: You can plan ahead for VM maintenance on M1, M2, and M3 machine types by viewing their maintenance schedule notifications. For specific machine types within these families, you can also trigger VM maintenance ahead of schedule.

April 08, 2024

Pricing change: On January 26, 2024, Red Hat announced a price model update on RHEL and RHEL for SAP for all Cloud providers that scales image subscription costs according to vCPU count. The new pricing model will be reflected on Compute Engine starting July 1, 2024.

For the pricing changes, see Premium images. To learn about your options to optimize subscription costs, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux pricing FAQs.

On January 26, 2024, Red Hat announced a price model update on RHEL and RHEL for SAP for all Cloud providers that scales image subscription costs according to vCPU count. As a result, starting July 1, 2024, any active commitments for RHEL and RHEL for SAP licenses will be canceled and will not be charged for the remainder of the commitment's term duration.

Google Cloud has notified and will issue adjustments to affected customers.

April 04, 2024

Generally available: Simplify block storage management for Compute Engine instances with Hyperdisk Storage Pools. A Hyperdisk Storage Pool is a pre-purchased collection of disk capacity, throughput, and IOPS which you can then provision to your applications as needed. By managing disks in aggregate, you can save costs while achieving expected capacity and performance growth. For more information, see About Hyperdisk Storage Pools.

April 03, 2024

Compute Engine is not affected by CVE-2024-3094. For more information, see the the GCP-2024-021 security bulletin.

March 22, 2024

Generally available: Disaster recovery with Persistent Disk Async Replication has been expanded to allow you to replicate data on a disk in one region to any other region within the same continent.

Also, the following performance and capacity enhancements are available:

• Data replication change rate increased to 2 GiB/min from 250 MB/min.
• Maximum provisioned disk size increased to 32 TB from 5 TB per disk.
• The number of disks per project increased to 1000 from 100.
• The number of disks per consistency group increased to 128 from 64.

March 21, 2024

Generally available: In a managed instance group (MIG), you can set metadata and labels for all VMs in the group without the need to create a new instance template. For more information, see Override instance template properties with an all-instances configuration.

Generally available: In a managed instance group (MIG), you can turn off repairs to inspect failed and unhealthy VMs, to implement your own repair logic, or to monitor the application health without triggering repairs by MIG. For more information, see Turn off repairs in a MIG.

March 18, 2024

Generally available: The organization-wide patch status dashboard and organization-wide OS policy compliance reports in VM Manager are now generally available.

March 13, 2024

Generally available: You can use SSH-in-browser to connect to TPU VMs. For more information, see Connecting to a Cloud TPU.

March 12, 2024

Generally available: You can scale a single VM into a managed instance group (MIG), which is a group of VMs that you can manage as a single entity. A MIG can make your workload scalable and highly available using features like autoscaling, autohealing, regional (multiple zones) deployment, and automatic updating.

For more information, see Create a MIG from an existing VM.

March 11, 2024

Generally available: Hyperdisk Balanced is available with C3 and H3 VMs. Hyperdisk Balanced is a good fit for a wide range of use cases such as LOB applications, web applications, and medium-tier databases that don't require the performance of Hyperdisk Extreme. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

February 21, 2024

Preview: With managed workload identities for Compute Engine, you can implement mutually authenticated and encrypted communications between any two Compute Engine VMs. Workload applications running on the configured VMs can use the X.509 credentials for per-VM mTLS. These mTLS certificates are automatically rotated and managed for you by Certificate Authority Service.

For more information, see Authenticate workloads to other workloads over mTLS.

February 15, 2024

Preview: You can now use SSH-in-browser to connect to VMs using security keys with OS Login. For more information, see Enable security keys with OS Login.

February 13, 2024

Generally available: The following quotas and metrics are now available to help you monitor the usage and limits for Compute Engine concurrent operation quotas:

• Quotas for global concurrent operations (metric - compute.googleapis.com/global_concurrent_operations):
  • Concurrent global operations per project
  • Concurrent global operations per project operation type
• Quotas for regional concurrent operations (metric: compute.googleapis.com/regional_concurrent_operations):
  • Concurrent regional operations per project
  • Concurrent regional operations per project operation type

For more information, see Concurrent operation quotas.

February 08, 2024

Generally available: Hyperdisk Throughput is available with the following VMs:

• A3
• C3
• C3D
• G2
• H3
• M3

Hyperdisk Throughput support for Z3 VMs is also available in Preview.

Also, the maximum number of Hyperdisk Throughput volumes you can attach to a VM has been increased. See Hyperdisk capacity limits per VM for more information.

Hyperdisk volumes are durable network storage devices that your VMs can access, similar to Persistent Disk. Hyperdisk Throughput provides cost-effective and throughput-oriented storage with dynamically configurable capacity and throughput. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

February 07, 2024

When you purchase a resource-based commitment for GPUs, Local SSD disks, or both, you can attach any of your existing on-demand or auto-created future reservations to that commitment. By attaching existing reservations, you can reserve resources in advance and minimize resource unavailability issues when you purchase commitments for GPU or Local SSD disk resources.

For more information, see Purchase commitments with attached reservations.

February 02, 2024

Generally available: You can plan ahead for VM maintenance on C3, C3D, and Z3 Preview machine types by viewing their maintenance schedule notifications. For specific machine types within these families, you can also trigger VM maintenance ahead of schedule.

January 31, 2024

Preview: You can create GPU VMs in a MIG by using resize requests. Resize requests help you create VMs all at once and give you higher chances to obtain highly demanded resources such as GPUs.

For more information, see About resize requests in a MIG.

Generally available: Johannesburg, South Africa africa-south1-a,b,c has launched with E2, N2, N2D, and T2D general-purpose VMs in all three zones.

January 30, 2024

Generally available: Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication is available between the following region pairs:

• europe-west3 (Frankfurt, Germany) and europe-west8 (Milan, Italy)
• europe-west3 (Frankfurt, Germany) and europe-west10 (Berlin, Germany)
• us-east1 (Moncks Corner, South Carolina) and northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal, Québec)

For the full list of available regions, see Supported region pairs.

Preview: Z3 VMs, which offer the latest compute, networking, and storage innovations in one platform with a particular focus on high density, high performing Local SSD are now in Preview. For more information, see Storage-optimized machine family for Compute Engine.

Generally available: Snapshot settings are centralized configuration parameters for all snapshots in a project. You can use snapshot settings to customize the default storage location for all future snapshots in your project. By enabling you to do this, snapshot settings remove the need for you to manually specify a storage location during each individual snapshot creation.

For information about how to use snapshot settings and set your project's default snapshot storage location, see the snapshot settings documentation.

Generally available: NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in the following additional region and zone:

• Zurich, Switzerland (europe-west6-b)

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

January 25, 2024

Generally available: Hyperdisk Balanced is available with M3 VMs. Hyperdisk Balanced is a good fit for a wide range of use cases such as LOB applications, web applications, and medium-tier databases that don't require the performance of Hyperdisk Extreme. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

January 22, 2024

Generally available: In the Google Cloud console, in the Observability tab on the VM instances page, you can customize the predefined dashboard to monitor specific VM metrics that you want. For more information, see Create a customized dashboard to view specific metrics.

January 09, 2024

Google has patched several vulnerabilities that were discovered in the TianoCore EDK II UEFI firmware used in Google Compute Engine VMs. For more information, see the GCP-2024-001 security bulletin.

January 08, 2024

Generally available: NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in the following additional zone:

• Changhua County, Taiwan (asia-east1-b)

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

December 21, 2023

Generally available: The accelerator-optimized A3 machine type is now available on Compute Engine. The A3 machine type has NVIDIA® H100 80GB GPUs attached, which can be used to support your large artificial intelligence (AI) models, machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The A3 machine type is available in the following regions and zones:

• APAC
  • Singapore: asia-southeast1-b,c
• Europe
  • Netherlands: europe-west4-b.c
• North America
  • Iowa: us-central1-a,c
  • Virginia: us-east4-a,c
  • Ohio: us-east5-a

December 20, 2023

Generally available: You can rename an existing VM using the Google Cloud console, gcloud CLI, and REST. For more information, see Rename a VM.

December 13, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Seoul, South Korea (asia-northeast3-a)
• Moncks Corner, South Carolina (us-east1-c)

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

December 12, 2023

Preview: The following quotas and metrics are now available to help you monitor the usage and limits for Compute Engine concurrent operation quotas:

• Quotas for global concurrent operations (metric - compute.googleapis.com/global_concurrent_operations):
  • Concurrent global operations per project
  • Concurrent global operations per project operation type
• Quotas for regional concurrent operations (metric: compute.googleapis.com/regional_concurrent_operations):
  • Concurrent regional operations per project
  • Concurrent regional operations per project operation type

For more information, see Concurrent operation quotas.

December 07, 2023

Preview: Managed instance groups (MIGs) let you create pools of suspended and stopped virtual machine (VM) instances. You can manually suspend and stop VMs in a MIG to save on costs, or use suspended and stopped pools to speed up scale out operations of your MIG.

For more information, see Work with suspended and stopped VMs in a MIG.

December 04, 2023

Generally available: The following location and scale enhancements for Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication are generally available:

• Larger disk capacity: the maximum disk size has increased from 2 TiB to 5 TiB.
• Faster replication rate: the disk data replication rate has increased from 100 MB/min to 250 MB/min.
• Expanded regional support: PD Async Replication is available in 15 additional regions across Europe, APAC, and North America. For the full list of available regions, see Supported region pairs.

November 13, 2023

Preview: When creating or modifying an on-demand reservation, you can configure reservations to be automatically deleted at a specific date and time. Automatically deleting reservations makes it easier to prevent charges from unused reservations when you no longer need them.

For more information, see the documentation for creating on-demand reservations.

November 10, 2023

Preview: In a managed instance group (MIG), you can turn off repairs to inspect failed and unhealthy VMs, to implement your own repair logic, or to monitor the application health without triggering repairs by MIG. For more information, see Turn off repairs in a MIG.

November 07, 2023

Generally available: A replica recovery checkpoint of a regional Persistent Disk volume represents the most recent crash-consistent point in time of the fully replicated disk. For disks that are not fully replicated, you can use the checkpoint to create disk snapshots from an incomplete zonal replica. You can create and use these snapshots to recover disk data in the rare scenario where your synced replica goes down before your incomplete replica catches up.

Learn more about Regional Persistent Disk replica recovery checkpoints and how to use checkpoints to recover a degraded disk.

November 03, 2023

The h3-node-88-352 sole-tenant node type is now Generally Available.

November 01, 2023

Generally available: When assigning a custom queue count for the receive and transmit queues for a vNIC, under certain conditions, you can configure a number of custom queue counts that exceeds the number of vCPUs allocated to the VM.

October 31, 2023

Preview: Advanced maintenance control for sole-tenancy lets you control planned maintenance events for sole-tenant node groups and minimise maintenance-related disruptions. This feature is available only for sole-tenant node groups. To use this feature with your existing virtual machines, you must first move your VMs to sole-tenant node groups that have advanced maintenance control enabled.

The advanced maintenance control for sole-tenancy feature lets you:

• Check for maintenance events scheduled for a sole-tenant node 28 days in advance.
• Trigger maintenance immediately or schedule it for later. Note that if you trigger maintenance immediately, the maintenance takes place within 24-hours from the time you trigger the request.

For more information, see Advanced maintenance control for sole-tenancy.

October 27, 2023

Preview: Hyperdisk Balanced is now available in preview with H3 VMs. Hyperdisk Balanced is a good fit for a wide range of use cases such as LOB applications, web applications, and medium-tier databases that don't require the performance of Hyperdisk Extreme. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

October 25, 2023

Preview: Project zonal metadata is custom project metadata that you can set exclusively for VMs in a specific zone in a project. Project zonal metadata helps you with fault isolation and provides greater reliability. By setting custom project zonal metadata, you gain more control over the project metadata for your VMs and limit the impact of any incorrect metadata updates to VMs within the specific zone.

Learn more about VM metadata and how to set custom project zonal metadata.

October 17, 2023

Generally available: c3d-standard, c3d-highmem, c3d-highcpu, and c3d-standard-lssd machine types for general-purpose C3D VMs are generally available.

October 13, 2023

Generally available: C3 VMs support Compute Engine flexible committed use discounts (CUDs).

Compute Engine flexible CUDs allow you to commit to a minimum hourly spend amount and use vCPUs and/or memory in any of the projects within your Cloud Billing account, across any region, and belonging to any eligible machine types. Learn more about Compute Engine Flexible CUDs and how to purchase flexible commitments.

If you want to modify a future reservation request using the Compute Engine API, the paths query parameter is deprecated. Instead, use the updateMask query parameter.

For more information, see Modify future reservation requests.

Preview: You can now use workforce identity federation with OS Login.

October 12, 2023

Preview: The following metrics are now available to help you monitor your Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volume performance:

• Average I/O latency (compute.googleapis.com/instance/disk/average_io_latency)

• Average I/O queue depth (compute.googleapis.com/instance/disk/average_io_queue_depth)

To learn more about these metrics and how to view them, see Review disk metrics.

October 11, 2023

Generally available: You can configure stateful IP addresses in a managed instance group. Stateful IP addresses are preserved when VM instances in the group are repaired, updated, and re-created. For more information, see Configuring stateful IP addresses in MIGs.

October 09, 2023

When you install the Ops Agent on a Compute Engine VM by using the Observability tab on a Compute Engine VM details page, the agent is now installed with an Ops Agent OS policy. This installation method replaces the prior set of manual steps. For more information, see Installing the agent by using the Google Cloud console.

Generally available: H3 VMs, designed for compute-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads, are now generally available. For more information, see H3 machine series.

October 06, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• APAC
  • Seoul, South Korea (asia-northeast3-b)
• Europe
  • St. Ghislain, Belgium (europe-west1-b)
  • Frankfurt, Germany (europe-west3-b)
• North America
  • Council Bluffs, Iowa: (us-central1-c)
  • Las Vegas, Nevada (us-west4-a,c)

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

October 04, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Singapore(asia-southeast1-a)

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

September 27, 2023

Creating a reservation or future reservation request by using an instance template that specifies an A2, C3, or G2 machine type causes errors or problems with consumption. For more information, see Known issues.

September 26, 2023

Preview: c3d-standard, c3d-highmem, c3d-highcpu, and c3d-standard-lssd virtual machines are available in the following regions:

• Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America, us-central1
• Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America, us-east1
• Ashburn, Virginia, North America , us-east4
• St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe, europe-west1
• Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe, europe-west4
• Jurong West, Singapore, Asia, asia-southeast1

See the General purpose machines document for details.

September 22, 2023

Preview: Compute Engine API now enforces the Filtered list cost overhead quota, which limits the number of resources to be filtered out from server-side *.list and *.aggregatedList methods.

The quota is charged against the following metrics:

• Global: compute.googleapis.com/filtered_list_cost_overhead
• Regional: compute.googleapis.com/filtered_list_cost_overhead_per_region

For more information, see Rate quotas and best practices for list filtering.

Preview: You can now view the organization-wide patch status dashboard and OS policy compliance reports by using VM Manager.

The Google Cloud console labels for OS patch management and OS configuration management on VM Manager pages have been renamed to Patch and OS policies respectively.

September 21, 2023

Generally available: Instance templates are available as both regional and global resources. To reduce cross-region dependency or to achieve data residency, use a regional instance template to create virtual machines (VM), managed instance groups (MIG), or reservations. For more information, see Regional and global instance templates.

Generally available: Autohealing in managed instance groups (MIG) supports regional health checks. To reduce cross-region dependency or to achieve data residency, use a regional health check. For more information, see Set up an application health check and autohealing.

September 19, 2023

Generally available: Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Middle East me-central2-a,b,c has launched with E2, N2, N2D, and T2D VMs in all three zones. See the Dammam region access document to learn more.

September 18, 2023

Preview: Snapshot settings are centralized configuration parameters for all snapshots in a project. You can use snapshot settings to customize the default storage location for all future snapshots in your project. By enabling you to do this, snapshot settings remove the need for you to manually specify a storage location during each individual snapshot creation.

Learn more about snapshot settings and how to set the default storage location for a project using snapshot settings.

September 15, 2023

Generally available: The Red Hat Knowledgebase provides you with access to articles, solutions, product documentation, and community discussions for Red Hat products.

You can now access the Red Hat Knowledgebase by using single-sign-on (SSO) through the Google Cloud console from your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VMs. For more information, see Access Red Hat Knowledgebase.

September 14, 2023

Generally available: You can create C3-standard VMs with Local SSD attached using new machine types, for example c3-standard-44-lssd. For more information, see Choosing a valid number of Local SSDs.

September 12, 2023

You can manage future reservations using the Google Cloud console. Future reservations provide a high level of assurance to obtain important or difficult-to-obtain capacity in advance.

For more information, see the following pages:

• Create future reservation requests for a single project
• Create shared future reservation requests
• Delete future reservation requests
• Modify future reservation requests
• View future reservation requests

August 30, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• APAC
  • Taiwan (asia-east1-a,c)
  • Tokyo (asia-northeast1-a,c)
  • Singapore(asia-southeast1-c)
• Europe
  • Belgium (europe-west1-c)
  • London (europe-west2-a,b)
• North America
  • Northern virginia (us-east4-c)
  • Dalles (us-west1-c)

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

August 29, 2023

Preview: You can use future reservations to reserve resources at a specific date and time in the near future.

Future reservations are useful for obtaining capacity for future peak-demand events or highly-demanded resources. For more information, see About future reservation requests.

August 25, 2023

Preview: You can reduce network latency between VMs by using compact placement policies to specify the maximum distance between VMs. Use compact placement policies to optimize workloads with frequent communication across VMs—for example, high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML), or database server workloads. You can keep VMs in the same rack, across adjacent racks within the same cluster, or across adjacent clusters.

For more information, see Reduce latency by using compact placement policies.

August 22, 2023

Generally available: Berlin, Germany, Europe europe-west10-a,b,c has launched with E2, N2, N2D, and T2D VMs available in all three zones.

August 21, 2023

Generally available: When a managed instance group (MIG) repairs a failed or an unhealthy VM, you can apply the latest instance template and per-instance configuration to recreate the VM instead of applying the configuration originally used to create the VM. For more information, see Apply configuration updates during repairs.

Generally available: Hyperdisk Throughput is now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Council Bluffs, Iowa: us-central1
• Moncks Corner, South Carolina: us-east1
• Ashburn, Virginia: us-east4-b, c
• Eemshaven, Netherlands: europe-west4-a, c
• Jurong West, Singapore: asia-southeast1
• Mumbai, India: asia-south1-a

August 17, 2023

Generally available: The Ops Agent (version 2.38.0 and later) now supports the automatic tracking of GPU usage metrics reported from the NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) for Linux virtual machine instances that have attached NVIDIA GPUs.

Through an available integration with NVIDIA's Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM), you can also track metrics such as Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) block utilization, SM occupancy, SM pipe utilization, PCIe traffic rate, and NVLink traffic rate.

For more information, see Monitoring GPU performance on Linux VMs.

August 09, 2023

Generally available: You can use Cloud Monitoring to monitor the consumption of your reservations and set custom alerts. For more information, see Monitor consumption of reservations.

Generally available: If a host error occurs on a VM, you can control how much time Compute Engine spends recovering Local SSD data with the Local SSD recovery timeout setting. For more information, see Local SSD data persistence.

Generally available: Use the new distribution shape ANY SINGLE ZONE in a regional Managed Instance Group (MIG) to automatically select a single zone that has available resources within your quota. Recommended for workloads that require low latency, high-bandwidth connections between VMs or when you want to avoid inter-zone network traffic costs.

August 04, 2023

Preview: You can create C3 VMs with Local SSD attached using new machine types (-lssd). For more information, see Add a local SSD to your VM.

August 02, 2023

Preview: H3 VMs, designed for compute-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads, are now in preview. For more information, see H3 machine series.

July 28, 2023

Generally available: c3-standard and c3-highmem machine types for general-purpose C3 VMs are generally available.

July 25, 2023

Generally available: You can modify the description, schedule frequency, retention policy, or labels for a snapshot schedule instead of creating a new snapshot schedule. For more information, see Change a snapshot schedule.

July 24, 2023

Preview: You can now use SSH-in-browser to connect to TPU VMs.

July 21, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Salt Lake City: us-west3-b

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

July 12, 2023

Generally available: You can enable faster network packet processing by using the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). DPDK helps you to optimize VMs that run network-intensive workloads, such as video streaming or voice calls.

July 10, 2023

Preview: You can use instant snapshots to take in-place disk backups that can be restored to new disks under a minute.

Instant snapshots are ideal for rapid data restoration within the same location as the source disk. For more information, see Instant snapshots.

July 06, 2023

Generally available: You can now use a regional Persistent Disk as a VM boot disk.

June 30, 2023

You can suspend and resume E2 VMs.

June 29, 2023

Preview: c3-standard and c3-highmem machine types are now available for general-purpose C3 VMs.

June 28, 2023

Generally Available: Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication (PD Async Replication) is now generally available. For more information, see About Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication.

June 27, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Ohio, North America: us-east5-b

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

June 26, 2023

Generally available: For managed instance groups (MIGs), Google Cloud Console provides you with an improved way to configure autoscaling based on Cloud Monitoring metrics. The redesigned user interface enables you to explore available metrics and filters. You can visualize the metric values in a chart, which also displays the aggregated value used for autoscaling.

June 23, 2023

Preview: You can now use custom constraints to provide more granular and customizable control over specific fields for some Compute resources. For more information, see Manage Compute Engine resources using custom constraints.

June 09, 2023

Generally available: Hyperdisk Throughput provides cost-effective and throughput-oriented block storage with dynamically configurable capacity and throughput. Hyperdisk volumes are durable network storage devices that your VMs can access, similar to Persistent Disk. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

Generally available: NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-a

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

June 06, 2023

For MIGs that have T2D machine series VMs, autoscaling based on CPU utilization doesn't work as expected. For more details, see Known issues.

June 05, 2023

Generally available: Accelerator-optimized (G2) machine types with attached NVIDIA® L4 GPUs are generally available in the following regions and zones:

• Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-b
• Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a,b,c
• Iowa, North America: us-central1-a,b
• South Carolina, North America: us-east1-b,d
• Virginia, North America: us-east4-a
• Oregon, North America: us-west1-a,b

May 31, 2023

Preview: In a managed instance group (MIG), you can set metadata and labels for all VMs in the group without the need to create a new instance template. For more information, see Override instance template properties with an all-instances configuration.

The image import tool now supports importing CentOS Stream 9 and CentOS Stream 8 images to Google Cloud.

May 25, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a
• Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-c

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

May 22, 2023

Generally available: General purpose C3 VMs are now generally available in the following regions:

• Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America : us-central1
• Moncks Corner, South Carolina, North America: us-east1
• Ashburn, Virginia, North America: us-east4
• St. Ghislain, Belgium, Europe: europe-west1
• Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe : europe-west4
• Jurong West, Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1

May 19, 2023

Preview: You can now use the discard-local-ssd=false flag to preserve the contents of a single attached Local SSD disk when suspending or stopping a VM. For more information, see the Local SSD Documentation.

May 16, 2023

The image import tool now supports importing Rocky Linux 9 images to Google Cloud.

May 15, 2023

Generally available: The local SSD quota per machine family (LOCAL_SSD_TOTAL_GB_PER_VM_FAMILY) is generally available. Use the quota metric compute.googleapis.com/local_ssd_total_storage_per_vm_family instead of compute.googleapis.com/local_ssd_total_storage to view the quota usage and limits for local SSD in your project. For more information, see View and manage local SSD quota per machine family.

May 05, 2023

End of life: On May 1, 2024, NVIDIA K80s will be end of life and won't be available for new or existing VMs on Google Cloud.

For information about how to prepare for this EOL, see NVIDIA K80 EOL.

April 26, 2023

Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-1017 and CVE-2023-1018) were discovered in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0.

For more information, see the GCP-2023-004 security bulletin.

April 25, 2023

In the Google Cloud console, the Observability tab on the VM instances page for Compute Engine has been enhanced. Disk and Network sections with additional charts have been added. The Integrations > Detected section lets you navigate to the dashboards for the third-party integrations that you have configured, like Apache or NGINX. The page also includes a set of recommended alerts for setting up pre-configured alerting policies for CPU, memory, and disk utilization and for host errors.

April 24, 2023

You can now create regional Persistent Disk volumes when creating a new VM either directly, or through instance templates. For more information, see Create a VM instance with additional non-boot disks or Create a new instance template.

April 20, 2023

Preview:

• The HPC Rocky Linux 8 image is now available for HPC workloads.
• The HPC VM Images now support Intel MPI 2021 with tools to easily installing the Intel MPI 2021 library, the net and psm3 libfabric providers.
• The HPC VM Images now support OpenMPI. For more details, see Open MPI best practice guides.

April 06, 2023

Generally available: You can now use the gcloud command-line tool to import images from AWS into Google Cloud. For more information, see Importing images from AWS.

April 04, 2023

Preview: Accelerator-optimized (G2) machine types are now available on Compute Engine. Each G2 machine type has a fixed number of NVIDIA® L4 GPUs attached to support your next generation graphics performance workloads. The G2 machine types are available in the following three regions:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-a,b
• Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a
• Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-b

March 31, 2023

Generally available: You can use the Regional disk replica state metric in Cloud Monitoring to track the states of your regional Persistent Disk zonal replicas. You can also use the metric data to determine the replication state of your regional Persistent Disk volumes.

Learn more about zonal replication for regional Persistent Disk and how to monitor the states of regional Persistent Disk zonal replicas.

March 30, 2023

Generally available: Doha, Qatar, Middle East me-central1-a,b,c has launched with E2 and N2 VMs available in all three zones.

See VM instance pricing for details.

Preview: Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication (PD Async Replication) provides low recovery point objective (RPO) and low recovery time objective (RTO) block storage replication for cross-region active-passive disaster recovery. For more information, see About Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication.

March 28, 2023

Generally Available: You can test how workloads running on sole-tenant nodes behave during a host maintenance event, and see the effects of the sole-tenant VM's host maintenance policy on the applications running on the VMs.

For more information, see Simulate host maintenance events on sole-tenant nodes.

March 23, 2023

Generally available: Turin, Italy, Europe europe-west12-a,b,c has launched with E2, N2, N2D, and T2D VMs available in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

March 21, 2023

Your automated processes might fail if they use API response data about your resource-based commitment quotas. For more information, see Known issues.

March 17, 2023

End of life: On May 31, 2023, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) will reach end of life and the images deprecated on Google Cloud. If you use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS images in your project, review Ubuntu LTS end of life.

March 13, 2023

Generally available: Hyperdisk provides the fastest block storage for Compute Engine for your high-end, memory intensive workloads. Hyperdisk volumes are durable network storage devices that your VMs can access, similar to Persistent Disk. For more information, see About Hyperdisk.

February 28, 2023

Generally available: When creating a reservation, you can now include a compact placement policy to specify that VMs should be located as close to each other as possible to reduce network latency. Learn how to create a reservation that specifies a compact placement policy.

February 22, 2023

Generally available: You can upgrade the term of your 1-year commitments and convert them into 3-year commitments to get a higher discount percentage for your committed resources and continue receiving the discounts for a longer time period.

For more information, see Upgrade the term of commitments.

February 21, 2023

Generally available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following region and zones:

• Warsaw, Poland, Europe: europe-central2-b,c

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

Generally available: The image import tool now supports importing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 for SAP images to Google Cloud.

Regional metrics for Compute Engine API limits are now available. Regional migration of API limits reduces the scope of global or multi-regional outages. For more information about the new regional metrics and changes in API limits, see API rate limits.

Due to this change, you might want to update your Cloud Monitoring dashboards, queries and alerts to use the regional metrics. For more information, see Migrate Compute Engine API quota from global metrics to regional metrics.

February 20, 2023

Preview: You can autoscale a regional managed instance group with a BALANCED target distribution shape. With the BALANCED shape, the autoscaler is aware of the capacity in each zone and creates VMs in zones that have resource availability. For more information, see Autoscaling a regional MIG.

February 16, 2023

Preview: C3 VMs are now available in the following regions:

• Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America : us-central1
• Ashburn, Virginia, North America: us-east4
• Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe : europe-west4

Preview: You can now use a GPU-enabled Ops Agent to track GPU utilization and GPU memory usage rates for Linux virtual machine instances that have attached GPUs.

Through an available integration with NVIDIA's Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM), you can also track metrics such as Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) block utilization, SM occupancy, SM pipe utilization, PCIe traffic rate, and NVLink traffic rate.

For more information, see Monitoring GPU performance on Linux VMs.

February 14, 2023

Tau T2A VMs now support secure boot.

February 09, 2023

Preview: You can modify the description, schedule frequency, or labels for a snapshot schedule instead of creating a new snapshot schedule. For more information, see Change a snapshot schedule.

January 31, 2023

Generally available: You can now use an instance template to define the properties of a reservation and the VMs that can consume the reservation in the same place. Learn how to create a reservation by specifying an instance template.

January 25, 2023

Generally available: Compute Engine committed use discounts are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) image licenses. Learn more about discounted RHEL image pricing and how to purchase a license commitment.

January 20, 2023

You can now use the Observability tab on the Compute Engine VM instances page to see the five virtual machines consuming the most of a resource. For more information, see Troubleshooting VM performance issues.

January 16, 2023

Preview: When a managed instance group (MIG) repairs a failed or an unhealthy VM, you can apply the latest instance template and per-instance configuration to recreate the VM instead of applying the configuration originally used to create the VM. For more information, see Apply configuration updates during repairs.

January 12, 2023

Preview: You can now simulate host maintenance events on sole-tenant nodes.

For more information, see Simulate host maintenance events on sole-tenant nodes.

January 09, 2023

Preview: Use the Google Cloud console to rename VMs. For more information, see Rename a VM.

December 22, 2022

Generally available: N2 VMs with 64 or more vCPUs now support up to 4 GB/s (read) and 3 GB/s (write) throughput per instance with Extreme persistent disks (pd-extreme). Previously the maximum was 2.2 GB/s per instance.

December 16, 2022

The image import tool now supports importing RHEL 9 images to Google Cloud.

December 13, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following region and zones:

• Hong Kong, APAC: asia-east2-a,c

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

December 08, 2022

Generally available: You can merge your active hardware resource commitments into one larger commitment to track and manage them as a single entity. You can now also merge your commitments by using the Google Cloud Console. For more information, see Merging commitments.

November 17, 2022

Preview: You can limit the runtime of a VM to automatically stop or delete it when a time limit is reached. Limiting VM runtimes can help you optimize temporary workloads by minimizing costs and releasing quota. For more information, see Limit the runtime of a VM.

November 16, 2022

Generally available: You can double the default size limit for a managed instance group (MIG): Zonal MIGs support up to 2,000 VMs and regional MIGs support up to 4,000 VMs. For more information, see Increase the group's size limit.

November 15, 2022

Preview: Use the new distribution shape ANY SINGLE ZONE in a regional managed instance group (MIG) to automatically select a single zone that has available resources within your quota. Recommended for workloads that require low latency, high-bandwidth connections between VMs or when you want to avoid inter-zone network traffic costs.

November 14, 2022

Balanced persistent disks and SSD persistent disks now offer baseline IOPS and throughput performance. To learn more, see Baseline performance.

November 10, 2022

Per VM Tier_1 networking performance now includes up to 25 Gbps egress for traffic going to public IP addresses (increased from 7 Gbps).

Generally available: Share sole-tenant node groups with other projects or with your entire organization. For more information, see Share sole-tenant node groups.

November 08, 2022

The quota limits displayed in the Cloud console might be incorrect in the asia-south1 region. For more information, see Known issues.

November 07, 2022

Generally available: Memory-optimized M3 virtual machine instances are available in the following regions and zones:

• Frankfurt, Germany (europe-west3-a,b)
• Eemshaven, Netherlands (europe-west4-a,b)
• Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA (us-central1-a,b)
• Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (us-west4-a,b)

See VM instance pricing for details.

November 01, 2022

The image import tool now supports importing Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Windows 11 images to Google Cloud.

October 27, 2022

Generally available: Compute Engine flexible committed use discounts (flexible CUDs) are spend-based discounts that add flexibility to your spending capabilities by eliminating the need to restrict your commitments to a single project, region, or machine series. You can purchase flexible commitments and commit to a minimum hourly spend amount to use vCPUs and/or memory in any of the projects within your Cloud Billing account, across any region, and belonging to any eligible general-purpose and/or compute-optimized machine types.

Learn more about flexible CUDs and how to purchase flexible commitments.

October 19, 2022

Generally available: You can resize an existing hardware resource commitment and split it into smaller commitments to closely monitor and manage portions of one large commitment in the form of smaller individual commitments. You can now also split your commitments by using the Google Cloud Console. For more information, see Splitting commitments.

Generally available: Accelerator-optimized (A2 ultraGPU) machine types with their attached A100 80GB GPUs are now available in the following regions and zones:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-c
• Ashburn, Virginia, North America: us-east4-c

The incorrect quota limits displayed in the Cloud console in the me-west1 region have been resolved.

October 05, 2022

Generally available: Tau T2A, Google Cloud's first general purpose VM family to run on Arm architecture, is now generally available in these three regions.

For more information, including how to try T2A for free for a limited time, see Creating an Arm VM instance.

September 23, 2022

Generally available: View the VM placement topology information to determine how close a VM is located in relation to another VM. For more information, see View VM placement topology.

September 22, 2022

Generally available: Reduce licensing costs by customizing the number of visible CPU cores.

September 21, 2022

Generally Available: E2 shared-core custom VMs are now generally available. See VM instance pricing for details.

September 20, 2022

The quota limits displayed in the Cloud console might be incorrect in the me-west1 region. For more information, see Known issues.

September 16, 2022

Generally available: A new machine type for the memory-optimized-machine family called m2-hypermem-416 with 416 vCPUs and 8832 GB of memory. This new machine type is now generally available in the same regions as the other M2 machine types.

For more information, see Memory-optimized-machine family.

September 13, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following region and zones in Middle East:

• Tel Aviv, Israel: me-west1-b,c.

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

Generally available: Tel Aviv, Israel, Middle East me-west1-a,b,c has launched with E2 and N2 VMs available in all three zones, and M1 VMs in zones a and c.

See VM instance pricing for details.

September 09, 2022

Generally available: Compute Engine supports importing a virtual disk with an UEFI bootloader. Learn more about using the --guest-os-features flag to enable UEFI booting for the imported disk.

September 08, 2022

The incorrect quota limits displayed in the Cloud console in the us-east5 region have been resolved.

September 07, 2022

Generally available: To reduce image licensing cost, you can now bring your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to Google Cloud. For more information, see Create a VM using a RHEL BYOS image.

Preview: Accelerator-optimized (A2 ultraGPU) machine types with their attached A100 80GB GPUs are now available in the following region:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-c

Generally available: Archive snapshots are now available for more cost-efficient data retention as compared to regular snapshots, which are best suited for long-term back up and disaster recovery. For more information, see Archive snapshots.

September 01, 2022

The following changes have been introduced to how your resource usage is calculated to determine applicable sustained use discounts:

• Usage will be calculated on an hourly basis instead of a per microsecond basis.
• Usage will be calculated collectively for a billing account instead of on a per project basis.

August 25, 2022

Preview: You can double the default size limit for a managed instance group (MIG): Zonal MIGs now support up to 2,000 VMs and regional MIGs support up to 4,000 VMs. For more information, see Increase the group's size limit

August 08, 2022

Generally Available: Internal and external IPv6 addresses for Google Compute Engine instances are available in all regions.

For more information, see Configuring IPv6 for instances and Creating instances with multiple network interfaces.

August 05, 2022

Generally available: You can now use the os-config troubleshoot command to help verify the setup of VM Manager. For more information, see Verifying VM Manager setup.

August 04, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Ashburn, Virginia, North America: us-east4-a

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

July 29, 2022

Generally available: When you autoscale a MIG, you can view the reasons for why the autoscaler adds or removes VMs in your MIG. For more information, see Viewing autoscaler logs.

The quota limits displayed in the Cloud console might be incorrect in the us-east5 region. For more information, see Known issues.

July 28, 2022

Preview: You can now merge or split your existing hardware resource commitments to create new upsized or downsized commitments. For more information, see Merge and split commitments.

Generally available: Use the Cloud console, the gcloud tool, or the API to configure a VM to shut down when a Cloud KMS key is revoked. For more information, see Configure VM shutdown on Cloud KMS key revocation.

Generally available: When you create VMs in bulk, you can now use the following new values with the TARGET_SHAPE flag:

• ANY: Use this value to place VMs in zones to maximize unused zonal reservations.
• BALANCED: Use this value to place VMs uniformly across zones.

July 21, 2022

Generally available: Compute Engine committed use discounts are now Generally Available for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) image licenses. Learn more about discounted SLES image pricing and how to purchase a license commitment.

July 20, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Montréal, Québec, North America : northamerica-northeast1-c

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

July 16, 2022

Generally available: Internal and external IPv6 addresses for Google Compute Engine instances are available in all regions.

For more information, see Configuring IPv6 for instances and instance templates and Creating instances with multiple network interfaces.

July 14, 2022

Generally available: You can use the Cloud console to configure autoscaling based on unacknowledged messages in a Pub/Sub subscription. For more information, see Autoscale based on unacknowledged messages in Pub/Sub.

Generally available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

Ashburn, Virginia, North America : us-east4-c

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

July 13, 2022

Generally Available: A version of Rocky Linux is now available that is optimized for running on Compute Engine.

This version of Rocky Linux is configured to use the latest version of the Google virtual network interface (gVNIC) which is specifically designed to support workloads that require higher network bandwidths. For more information, see the Rocky Linux section of the Operating systems details documentation.

Preview: Tau T2A, Google Cloud's first general purpose VM family to run on Arm architecture, is now available. Tau T2A VMs are available in three regions.

For more information, see Arm VMs on Compute Engine.

June 30, 2022

Generally available: You can now create shared reservations of Compute Engine zonal resources using the Google Cloud Console. Learn about shared reservations and creating a shared reservation.

June 27, 2022

GA: You can now use the SSH troubleshooting tool from the Cloud console to help you determine the cause of failed SSH connections. For more information, see SSH troubleshooting tool.

June 22, 2022

The CPU utilization observability metric is incorrect for VMs that use one thread per core. For more information, see Known issues.

June 16, 2022

Preview: Windows VMs now support SSH connections from the gcloud CLI. For more information, see Connect to Windows VMs using SSH.

June 15, 2022

Cloud console SSH-in-browser connections might fail if you use custom firewall rules. For workarounds, see Known issues.

June 14, 2022

Generally Available: The image import tool now supports importing Windows Server 2022 images to Google Cloud.

Generally available: Optimize the distribution of VMs in sole-tenant node groups. For more information, see About manual live migration.

June 13, 2022

Generally Available: Compute Engine can now use a maximum network packet size of 8896 when communicating between VMs on the same subnet. For details, see the maximum transmission unit overview.

June 07, 2022

Generally available: Dallas, Texas us-south1-a,b,c has launched with E2 and N2 VMs available in all three zones.

See VM instance pricing for details.

June 06, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA A100 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

Las Vegas, Nevada, North America : us-west4-b

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

Preview: When you create VMs in bulk, you can now use the following new values with the TARGET_SHAPE flag:

• ANY: Use this value to place VMs in zones to maximize unused zonal reservations.
• BALANCED: Use this value to place VMs uniformly across zones.

May 31, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA A100 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

Seoul, South Korea, APAC : asia-northeast3-a,b

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms.

May 27, 2022

Preview: You can now use the SSH troubleshooting tool from the Cloud console to help you determine the cause of failed SSH connections.

May 24, 2022

Generally available: Columbus, Ohio, USA us-east5-a,b,c has launched with E2, N2, and N2D VMs in all three zones. Additionally, you can create C2 VMs in zones a and b.

See VM instance pricing for details.

May 18, 2022

N2D VMs are now available in Paris, France europe-west9-a,b,c.

See VM instance pricing for details.

May 17, 2022

Generally available: You can access Google APIs and services from Compute Engine instances using either internal IPv6 addresses with Private Google access or external IPv6 addresses.

May 10, 2022

Generally available: Madrid, Spain europe-southwest1-a,b,c has launched with E2 and N2 VMs available in all three zones.

See VM instance pricing for details.

May 09, 2022

Generally available: Insights for idle VM and machine size recommendations help you assess the utilization of your Compute Engine resources. Insights are automatically generated based on system metrics or metrics gathered by the Cloud Monitoring service.

Learn more about VM insights and MIG insights.

May 03, 2022

Generally available: Paris, France europe-west9-a,b,c has launched with general-purpose E2 and N2 VMs available in all three zones.

See VM instance pricing for details.

April 29, 2022

Generally available: Spot VMs are available for all machine types, regions, and zones. Use Spot VMs for workloads that can withstand preemption to receive large discounts. Spot VMs provide discounts of 60-91% off the on-demand price for standard VMs for machine types and GPUs and also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs. Spot prices can change up to once a month to reflect the underlying supply and demand.

Spot VMs are the latest version of preemptible VM instances. Although new and existing preemptible VMs continue to be supported and use the same prices as Spot VMs, Spot VMs provide new features that are not supported for preemptible VMs. For example, preemptible VMs can only run for up to 24 hours at a time, but Spot VMs have no maximum runtime.

Learn more about Spot VMs and preemptible VMs.

April 21, 2022

NVIDIA 510 driver is now supported for GPUs running on Compute Engine. For information about installing drivers, see Install GPU drivers.

April 20, 2022

Generally available: Milan, Italy europe-west8-a,b,c region has launched with general-purpose E2, N2, and N2D VMs available in all three zones.

See VM instance pricing for details.

April 18, 2022

Preview: You can now customize the number of visible CPU cores.

April 14, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA A100 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Tokyo, Japan, APAC: asia-northeast1-a,c

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPU platforms. For pricing information, review the pricing tables for the Accelerator-optimized machine type family.

April 13, 2022

Tau T2D VMs are now available in the following regions and zones:

• Las Vegas, NV (us-west4-a,b)
• São Paulo, Brazil, South America (southamerica-east1-a,b,c)
• St. Ghislain, Belgium (europe-west1-c)

N2 general-purpose VMs are available in Salt Lake City, UT (us-west3-a,b,c).

See VM instance pricing for details.

April 07, 2022

Generally available: You can now set the number of threads per core on a VM.

April 04, 2022

Generally available: You can now autoscale both regional and zonal managed instance groups based on a Cloud Monitoring metric that provides an aggregated value for the group. You can also apply filters to group metrics to further scope the scaling signal. For more information, see Scaling based on Cloud Monitoring metrics.

March 22, 2022

General purpose Tau T2D VMs have limited availability in London (europe-west2-a,c). If you are interested in trying out T2D, speak to your Google Cloud Account Team. For pricing details, see VM instance pricing.

Preview: You can now share sole-tenant node groups with other projects or your entire organization.

March 16, 2022

General-purpose Tau T2D virtual machine instances are available in the following regions and zones:

• Northern Virginia (us-east4-a,b,c)
• South Carolina (us-east1-b,c,d)
• Frankfurt (europe-west3-a,b,c)
• Sydney (australia-southeast1-a,b,c)
• Taiwan (asia-east1-a,b,c)

See VM instance pricing for details.

March 14, 2022

Generally available: Compute Engine now supports Suspend and Resume in General Availability.

Fixed the issue causing the Compute Engine API Quotas page in the Cloud Console to display duplicate API quota groups.

March 07, 2022

Generally available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Council Bluffs, Iowa, North America : us-central1-c
• Eemshaven, Netherlands, Europe : europe-west4-a

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

March 04, 2022

Public Preview: You can set the maximum amount of time that Compute Engine waits before terminating or restarting an unresponsive VM. For more information, see Set VM availability policies.

February 23, 2022

NVIDIA 510 driver not yet supported for GPUs running on Compute Engine, see Known issues.

February 16, 2022

New documentation for licenses and appending licenses.

T2D machines are now available in the following regions and zones:

• St. Ghislain, Belgium: europe-west1
• The Dalles, Oregon: us-west1

See VM instance pricing for details.

February 10, 2022

Generally available: Compute-optimized C2D machine types are now generally available. C2D machine types are built on top of third generation AMD EPYC Milan processors and are a great fit for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. For more information, see Compute-optimized machine family.

February 09, 2022

Public Preview: You can now use the security keys registered for 2-Step Verification in your Google account to connect to VMs that use OS Login. For more information, see Enable security keys with OS Login.

February 04, 2022

Generally available: Support for the Intel Ice Lake processor on general purpose N2 VMs has reached general availablity.

Generally available: The n2-node-128-864 sole-tenant node type.

February 03, 2022

Rate limits for all Compute Engine requests have the following changes:

• All per-user rate limits are removed.
• Rate limits are now enforced in 1-minute (60-second) intervals instead of 100-second intervals.
• Due to this change, you might receive more 403 rateLimitExceeded errors when bursting.
  • Although per-second rate limits increased slightly, the enforcement intervals are now shorter, so the maximum number of requests per enforcement interval is slightly reduced overall. For example, the default Queries group's rate limit is changing from 20 requests per second with a maximum of 2000 requests per 100 seconds to 25 requests per second with a maximum of 1500 requests per 60 seconds.

Additionally, rate limits are now documented for the following groups:

• Instance list referrer requests
• Instance get serial port output requests

For details, see API rate limits.

Duplicate API quota groups are displayed in the Cloud Console. For more information about requesting API quota, see Known issues.

February 01, 2022

As of February 1, 2022, all CentOS 8 images are deprecated. CentOS 8 reached EOL on December 31, 2021. If you use CentOS 8 images in your project, review CentOS 8 end of life.

January 31, 2022

Restructured documentation to better group content and improve discoverability.

January 26, 2022

Generally available: Support for up to 48 vCPUs and 312 GB memory on virtual machine (VM) instances that have a single T4 GPU attached is now generally available.

For more information, see Network bandwidths and GPUs.

January 20, 2022

Learn about the differences between multi-tenancy and sole-tenancy by reading the new About VM tenancy document.

January 19, 2022

Generally available: You can now use the SSH troubleshooting tool to help you determine the cause of failed SSH connections.

Generally Available: Configure commitments to renew automatically. For more information, see Renew commitments automatically.

January 14, 2022

Generally available: Access the Compute Engine API using Cloud Client Libraries built on our latest client library model. Updated client libraries are now available in the following languages:

• Go
• Java
• .NET
• Node.js
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby

For more information, see Compute Engine client libraries.

January 11, 2022

Generally available: Compute Engine now supports machine images in General Availability. You can use machine images to store configuration, metadata, permission, and data required to create a VM instance.

January 05, 2022

Preview: You can now disable VM instance creation retries during resizing of both regional and zonal managed instance groups.

December 16, 2021

Preview: Compute-optimized C2D machine types are now available in preview. C2D machine types are built on top of third generation AMD EPYC Milan processors and are a great fit for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. For more information, see Compute-optimized machine family.

Accelerator-optimized (A2) machine types with gVNIC are currently experiencing a known issue.

December 15, 2021

Generally available: When rolling out configuration or application updates to a stateful or stateless managed instance group, use the minimum and most disruptive allowed actions to control disruption to your workload.

Public preview: You can use the gcloud tool or API to configure stateful IP addresses in a managed instance group. Stateful IP addresses are preserved when VM instances in the group are autohealed, updated, and recreated.

December 14, 2021

Generally available: You can now share reservations of Compute Engine zonal resources between multiple projects. Learn about shared reservations and creating a shared reservation.

December 13, 2021

You can now save copies of all charts from the Observability tab on Compute Engine's VM instance details page to one of your custom dashboards. To save copies of the charts, click Add Charts to Dashboard. You then select a new or existing custom dashboard as the destination.

December 10, 2021

The n2-node-128-864 sole-tenant node type is now available in Preview.

December 03, 2021

Generally available: Use OS configuration management to deploy and automate software configurations on your virtual machine (VM) instances using the Google Cloud console, gcloud command-line, and OS Config API.

With the OS configuration management GA, you can now edit assignments from the Cloud console and view OS policy assignment reports. For more information, see OS configuration management.

Generally available: NVIDIA® A100 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Moncks Corner, South Carolina : us-east1-b
• The Dalles, Oregon : us-west1-b
• Council Bluffs, Iowa : us-central1-f
• Jurong West, Singapore : asia-southeast1-b

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

November 16, 2021

Generally available: You can now configure N2, N2D, and C2 VMs with up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.

This feature is ideal for network-intensive, distributed workloads such as high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL).

Learn more about high-bandwidth network configurations, and the regions and zones where these VMs are available.

Generally available: Santiago, Chile, South America southamerica-west1-a,b,c region has launched with E2, N2, and C2 VMs in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

November 15, 2021

Generally available: You can now monitor health state change logs for VM instances in a managed instance group when you use application-based health checking.

Generally available: N2D machine types running on third generation AMD EPYC Milan processors. These machine types are only available in specific regions and zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

Generally available: T2D Tau machine types are available in select regions and zones. Tau T2D VMs offer excellent price-performance for a wide range of scale-out workloads. See VM instance pricing for details.

November 12, 2021

You can now access vulnerability report data, available through the OS Config API service, from Cloud Asset Inventory. For more information, see View vulnerability reports data from Cloud Asset Inventory.

November 11, 2021

Generally available: You can now use the gcloud command-line and the OS Config API to get inventory and vulnerability report data for your VMs in a specific zone. For more information, see Viewing operating system details.

November 09, 2021

If you use local SSDs with sync-heavy workloads, you will now more consistently reach write IOPS limits and experience lower latency, without having to disable cache flushing. This is due to a recent SSD firmware update.

November 08, 2021

You can now save a copy of a chart from the Observability tab on Compute Engine's VM instance details page to one of your custom dashboards. To save a copy of the chart, select Add to Custom Dashboard from chart option. You then select a new or existing custom dashboard, and have the option of renaming the new copy of the chart.

October 28, 2021

Generally available: Schedule-based autoscaling for managed instance groups now lets you configure schedules without having another autoscaling signal.

October 21, 2021

Preview: You can now configure up to 48 vCPUs and 312 GB memory on virtual machine (VM) instances that have a single T4 GPU attached.

For more information, see Network bandwidths and GPUs.

October 13, 2021

Preview: Spot VMs are now available! Spot VMs are the latest version of preemptible VM instances. Use Spot VMs for fault-tolerant workloads to get a 60-91% discount over the price of standard VMs. Spot prices can change up to once a month to reflect the underlying supply and demand. Like preemptible VMs, Spot VMs are available for all machine types, regions, and zones.

Preemptible VMs continue to be supported for new and existing VMs, and preemptible VMs now use the same pricing model as Spot VMs. However, Spot VMs provide new features that are not supported for preemptible VMs. For example, preemptible VMs can only run for up to 24 hours at a time, but Spot VMs do not have a maximum runtime.

Learn more about Spot VMs and preemptible VMs.

October 12, 2021

Preview: Third generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Ice Lake) N2 VMs are now available in select regions and zones. These new N2 VMs are offered at the same price as existing N2 VMs on second generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors.

October 11, 2021

Preview: Tau T2D VMs are now available in select regions and zones. T2D VMs are ideal for a wide variety of workloads in a cloud-native environment. See VM instance pricing for details.

September 23, 2021

Generally Available: Use patch alerting to monitor the patch jobs running in your environment. For more information, see Monitoring patch jobs.

September 22, 2021

Preview: You can now access installer properties for your Windows applications by using OS inventory management. For more information, see OS inventory management.

For information on setting up and using OS inventory management, see Viewing operating system details.

September 13, 2021

Generally Available: NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Las Vegas, Nevada,: us-west4-a,b
• Los Angeles, California: us-west2-b,c

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

September 08, 2021

Preview: You can now review OS vulnerability report data, which is collected by VM Manager, from the Security Command Center. This feature is available for Security Command Center premium tier users. For more information, see View vulnerability report data.

September 01, 2021

Generally available: When deleting VMs from a managed instance group, you can flag the operation to continue even if some instances were already deleted or if other instance validation errors occur.

August 31, 2021

Generally available: You can now reference the latest available image in a public image family for a specific zone. This feature improves zonal fault tolerance for your workflows during Google image updates.

August 25, 2021

Generally available: You can now collect core dumps for uses such as debugging of unresponsive VMs. For more information, see Collecting core dumps.

August 16, 2021

Preview: Manually live migrate VMs from one host to another. For more information, see Manually live migrate sole-tenant VMs.

August 06, 2021

Generally available: The Observability tab on Compute Engine's VM instance details page includes a category for process metrics. You can use the new charts and reports to troubleshoot the behavior of processes running on your VMs.

Preview: You can now use the Slurm-Google Cloud workload manager to create clusters that are based on the HPC virtual machine (VM) image and comply to the Intel Select Solution for Simulation and Modeling criteria. For more information, see Creating Intel Select Solution HPC clusters.

August 05, 2021

N2 VMs are now available in all three zones in Warsaw, Poland europe-central2-a,b,c. See VM instance pricing for details.

August 03, 2021

Toronto, Ontario, Canada northamerica-northeast2-a,b,c region has launched with E2, N2, N1 virtual machine (VM) instances in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

Disks, snapshots, and images are available in Toronto, Ontario, Canada northamerica-northeast2 in all three zones. See Disks and image pricing for details.

Generally available: You can update the descriptions of your managed instance groups by using the API or gcloud tool.

August 02, 2021

Preview: You can now share reservations of Compute Engine zonal resources between multiple projects. Learn about shared reservations and creating a shared reservation.

July 22, 2021

Preview: You can use the Help Assistant in the Google Cloud Console to find answers to questions about Compute Engine.

July 13, 2021

Preview: Access the Compute Engine API using Cloud Client Libraries built on our latest client library model. An updated client library is now available in the following language:

• Go

For more information, see Compute Engine client libraries.

Preview: The Observability tab on Compute Engine's VM instance details page includes a new category for process metrics. You can use the new charts and reports to troubleshoot the behavior of processes running on your VMs.

July 01, 2021

Preview: You can now configure N2D VMs with up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.

This feature is ideal for network-intensive distributed workloads.

Learn more about higher bandwidth configurations, the regions and zones where these machines are available, and the post preview pricing for this new feature.

June 30, 2021

The Machine types documentation has been renamed to Machine families. The URL remains the same.

New pages have been added to reflect the expansion of our machine fleet.

• General-purpose family
• Compute-optimized family
• Memory-optimized family
• Accelerator-optimized family

You can learn about Virtio memory balloon devices at the Dynamic resource management page.

June 29, 2021

Preview: You can now autoscale both regional and zonal managed instance groups based on a Cloud Monitoring metric that provides an aggregated value for the group. You can also apply filters to group metrics to further scope the scaling signal. For more information, see Scaling based on Cloud Monitoring metrics.

Delhi, India asia-south2-a,b,c region has launched with E2, N2, N1, and C2 virtual machine (VM) instances in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

June 28, 2021

Generally available: Compute Engine's VM instance details page has a new Observability tab, which replaces the Monitoring tab. The enhanced Observability tab provides access to logs and greater visibility into CPU, disk, and network metrics.

General-purpose N2D VMs are now available in us-west4-b Las Vegas, NV. See VM instance pricing for details.

June 24, 2021

Preview: Use patch alerting to monitor the patch jobs running in your environment. For more information, see Monitoring patch jobs.

June 23, 2021

Best practices are now available for the Compute Engine API.

June 21, 2021

Melbourne, Australia australia-southeast2-a,b,c has launched with E2, N2, N1, and M1 machines. M1 machines are only available in zones b and c.

See VM instance pricing for details.

June 18, 2021

Generally available: You can now create application consistent snapshots of disks attached to Linux VMs. For more information, see Creating Linux application consistent snapshots.

June 17, 2021

You can now customize E2 shared-core machine types. Shared-core machine types provide a fractional vCPU with the ability to burst to 2 vCPU for a short period of time.

• E2 shared-core machine types support predefined platforms with Intel or AMD EPYC Rome processors.

• The custom memory range is:

  • 1 to 2 GB for micro machines
  • 1 to 4 GB for small machines
  • 1 to 8 GB for medium machines

E2 shared-core custom machine pricing is the same as E2 custom machine pricing. E2 machines are available in all regions and zones.

Create a custom E2 shared-core machine using gcloud or the API.

Memory-optimized M2 machine types are now available in Belgium, europe-west1-b,c. See VM instance pricing for details.

June 10, 2021

NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• St. Ghislain, Belgium: europe-west1-b,c,d

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

June 08, 2021

Generally available: You can configure how your regional managed instance group distributes instances across zones by using capacity-aware distribution shapes, which can automatically deploy instances to zones where capacity is available and optionally prioritize the use of reservations.

Preview: When rolling out configuration or application updates to a stateful or stateless managed instance group, use the minimum and most disruptive allowed actions to control disruption to your workload.

June 03, 2021

N2D machine types are now available in us-west4-a , Las Vegas, Nevada. See VM instance pricing for details.

June 01, 2021

Preview: Access the Compute Engine API using Cloud Client Libraries built on our latest client library model. Updated client libraries are now available in the following languages:

• Java
• .NET
• Node.js
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby

For more information, see Compute Engine client libraries.

May 26, 2021

Preview: Disable simultaneous multithreading (SMT) on VMs. For more information, see Disabling simultaneous multithreading.

May 25, 2021

Generally Available: Enable nested virtualization directly when creating a VM. For more information, see Nested virtualization overview.

May 19, 2021

Generally Available: You can now create VM instances with V100, A100, and T4 GPUs that support network bandwidths of up to 100 Gbps. See Using network bandwidths of up to 100 Gbps.

May 13, 2021

Preview: You can use OS configuration management to deploy and automate software configurations on your virtual machine (VM) instances using gcloud command-line and OS Config API.

With the release of OS configuration management (preview), you can now rollout policies from the Cloud console, control the rollout pace, use more VM filter options, and view compliance reports. For more information, see OS configuration management (preview).

May 12, 2021

N2 machines are now available in the following regions and zones:

• Osaka, Japan: asia-northeast2-a,b,c
• Seoul, South Korea: asia-northeast3-a,b,c

See VM instance pricing for details.

May 10, 2021

N2D machines are now available in Tokyo asia-northeast1-c. See VM instance pricing for details.

May 03, 2021

Generally available: Create virtual machines for high performance computing (HPC) workloads using the HPC VM image.

April 29, 2021

Preview: With the introduction of OS inventory management v2.0, you can now query the OS Config API to get inventory and vulnerability report data for your VMs in a specific zone, see OS inventory management.

You can now create extreme persistent disks in certain regions. With consistently high performance for both random access workloads and bulk throughput, extreme persistent disks are designed for high-end database workloads.

For more information, see Extreme persistent disks.

April 28, 2021

C2 machines are available in the following regions and zones:

• Osaka asia-northeast2-a

See VM instance pricing for details.

April 27, 2021

N2D machines are available in the following regions and zones:

• Osaka asia-northeast2-c
• Montréal northamerica-northeast1-a,c
• Finland europe-north1-a,b,c

See VM instance pricing for details.

April 19, 2021

N2 VMs are now available in the following regions and zones:

• Mumbai asia-south1-a,b
• Jakarta asia-southeast2-a,b,c

See VM instance pricing for details.

April 16, 2021

N2D machines are available in the following regions and zones:

• Montréal northamerica-northeast1-b
• Osaka asia-northeast2-a,b

See VM instance pricing for pricing details.

April 15, 2021

You can now see additional metrics for your managed instance groups from the Instance Groups Monitoring tab. Metrics include: group size, CPU utilization, disk I/O, and more. Use the time range picker to select the time window for the charts and view the corresponding logs from the integrated logs viewer panel. Follow the links on each chart to create alerts or to analyze the details in the Cloud Operations Metrics Explorer.

April 13, 2021

Generally available: VM Manager integration with VPC Service Control.

Generally available: You can now configure schedule-based autoscaling for your managed instance groups. Schedule-based autoscaling lets you improve the availability of your application by scheduling capacity ahead of anticipated load.

April 08, 2021

Generally available: Predictive autoscaling for managed instance groups lets you improve the availability of your workloads by using Machine Learning to predict future demand and create virtual machines ahead of forecasted load.

April 06, 2021

N2D machines are now available in the following regions and zones:

• us-central1-b - Iowa
• asia-northeast1-a,b - Tokyo

See VM instance pricing for details.

Generally available: You can now use instance schedules from the Google Cloud Console.

April 01, 2021

Memory-optimized machines are now available in the following regions and zones:

• M1 ultramem (Jakarta ) asia-southeast2-a,c
• M1 ultramem (Osaka) asia-northeast2-a
• M1 ultramem, M2 ultramem and M2 megamem (Osaka) asia-northeast2-b
• M2 ultramem and M2 megamem (Osaka) asia-northeast2-c

See VM instance pricing for details.

March 31, 2021

Preview: You can now configure your VM to shutdown automatically when you revoke the Cloud KMS key protecting a persistent disk attached to the VM. For more information, see Configuring VM shutdown on Cloud KMS key revocation.

March 25, 2021

Generally available: Start and stop virtual machine (VM) instances automatically using instance schedules. By automating the deployment of your VMs, instance schedules can help you optimize costs and manage VMs more efficiently.

March 24, 2021

General-purpose E2 and N1 machines are available in Warsaw, Poland europe-central2 in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

Disks, snapshots, and images are available in Warsaw, Poland europe-central2 in all three zones. See Disks and image pricing for details.

Support for OS Login in VPC Service Controls is now Generally Available.

March 19, 2021

N2D machine types are available in the following regions and zones:

• Frankfurt, europe-west3-a,b
• Hong Kong, asia-east2-b,c

See VM instance pricing for pricing details.

March 17, 2021

Preview: You can now configure N2 and C2 VMs with up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.

This feature is ideal for network-intensive, distributed workloads such as high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL).

Learn more about higher bandwidth configurations, the regions and zones where these machines are available, and the post preview pricing for this new feature.

M2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

• Sydney — australia-southeast1-b,c
• London — europe-west2-b,c
• Montréal — northamerica-northeast1-b,c

See VM instance pricing for details.

Generally Available: Use the bulk instance API to create multiple, homogeneous VMs that are independent from each other. For more information, see Using the bulk instance API.

March 16, 2021

Generally Available: NVIDIA® A100 GPUs are now available in the following three regions:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-a,b,c
• Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a,b

• Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-c

  For more information, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

Generally Available: Accelerator-optimized (A2) machine types are now available in the following three regions:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-a,b,c
• Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a,b
• Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-c

N2D machine types are now available in Frankfurt, europe-west3-c and Hong Kong, asia-east2-a. See VM instance pricing for pricing details.

N2 machine types are now available in Zurich, europe-west6 in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

C2 machine types are now available in Salt Lake City, us-west3 in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

Memory-optimized machine types are now available in Tokyo, asia-northeast1 in all zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

C2 machine types are now available in Zürich, europe-west6 in all three zones. See VM instance pricing for details.

March 04, 2021

The VM instance details page for Compute Engine now offers a guided installation path for Monitoring agents when they are not detected.

February 25, 2021

Preview: You can now use the gcloud command-line tool to import images from AWS into Google Cloud. For more information, see Importing images from AWS.

February 17, 2021

Preview: Predictive autoscaling for managed instance groups lets you improve the availability of your workloads by using Machine Learning to predict future demand and create virtual machines ahead of forecasted load.

February 12, 2021

Google Virtual NIC (gVNIC) driver is now generally available. For more information, see Using Google Virtual NIC.

February 02, 2021

Generally Available: Sole-tenant nodes now support GPUs and local SSDs. For more information, see Sole-tenant nodes.

Generally Available: Specify when maintenance begins on VMs in a sole-tenant node group. For more information, see Planned maintenance.

February 01, 2021

NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Jakarta, Indonesia, APAC: asia-southeast2-a,b

For more information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

Preview: You can now use schedule-based autoscaling from the Google Cloud Console.

N2D machine types are now available in London, zone europe-west2-c. For pricing information, see VM instance pricing.

You can now create instances with up to 24 local SSD partitions for 9 TB of local SSD space using N1, N2, and N2D machine types. This is Generally available. For more information, see Local SSD 9 TB maximum capacity.

Preview: You can now create virtual machines for high performance computing (HPC) workloads using the HPC VM image.

January 28, 2021

Manage your operating system environments by using VM Manager. VM Manager is a suite of services for reviewing, patching, and configuring your operating systems across both Linux and Windows VMs. For more information, see VM Manager.

January 22, 2021

NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Jurong West, Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-a

For more information about GPU availability on Compute Engine, see GPU regions and zones availability.

January 11, 2021

You can now create N2D VM instances in us-east4-c Northern Virginia. See VM instance pricing for details.

December 17, 2020

The m1-node-96-1433 sole-tenant node type is now Generally Available.

December 16, 2020

Compute-optimized (C2) machines are now available in Montréal, in all three zones , northamerica-northeast1-a,b,c. For pricing, see VM instance pricing.

December 15, 2020

Preview: Accelerator-optimized (A2) machine types are now available in the following three regions:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-a,c
• Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a,b
• Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-c

Preview: NVIDIA® A100 GPUs are now available in the following three regions:

• Iowa, North America: us-central1-a,c
• Netherlands, Europe: europe-west4-a,b

• Singapore, APAC: asia-southeast1-c

  For more information, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

December 10, 2020

Preview: You can configure how your regional managed instance group distributes instances across zones by using capacity-aware distribution shapes, which can automatically deploy instances to zones where capacity is available and optionally prioritize the use of reservations.

You can migrate a VM instance from one network to another. This feature is Generally available.

December 09, 2020

Preview: Schedule-based autoscaling for managed instance groups lets you improve the availability of your workloads by scheduling capacity ahead of anticipated load.

GA: You can now access OS inventory data from Cloud Asset Inventory. For more information, see OS inventory and Cloud Asset Inventory integration.

GA: Per-group metrics let you autoscale a zonal managed instance group based on any Cloud Monitoring metric—for example, a Pub/Sub queue size or custom metrics from your application.

November 24, 2020

New sole-tenant node types:

• GA:

  • c2-node-60-240
  • m1-node-160-3844
  • m2-node-416-11776
  • n2-node-80-640
  • n2d-node-224-896

• Beta:

  • m1-node-96-1433

November 20, 2020

Preview: Reserve GPUs and local SSDs on sole-tenant nodes.

Preview: Rename VM instances.

November 17, 2020

You can now use security keys as a 2-step verification method when connecting to VMs using OS Login. For more information, see Setting up OS Login with 2-step verification.

November 16, 2020

GA: Collect diagnostic information from Windows Server VMs.

N2D machine types are now available in us-west1-a, The Dalles, Oregon. See VM instance pricing for pricing details.

November 12, 2020

The VM instance details page for Compute Engine now displays Memory Utilization and Disk Space Utilization charts. In addition, a new Monitor VM Instances link lets you go directly to the VM instances dashboard in Cloud Monitoring.

November 11, 2020

Compute-optimized (C2) machine types are now available in Hong Kong, asia-east2, in all three zones. For pricing information, see VM instance pricing.

November 09, 2020

Identify resources like persistent disks, IP addresses, and custom disk images that aren't in use. Viewing and applying idle resources recommendations can help reduce unused resources and reduce your Compute Engine bill. This feature is Generally available.

Compute-optimized (C2) machine types are now available in Sydney, Australia, australia-southeast1-c. For pricing details, see VM instance pricing.

October 29, 2020

NVIDIA® V100 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• South Carolina, North America: us-east1-c

For information about using V100 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

You can use VM Manager in VPC Service Controls. This feature is available in beta.

October 26, 2020

N2D Machine types are now available in London, europe-west2-a,b. See VM instance pricing for details.

N2D Machine types are now available in Eemshaven, Netherlands, europe-west4-a. See VM instance pricing for details.

October 19, 2020

Memory-optimized M1 machine types are available in Frankfurt europe-west3-a,b,c. Memory-optimized M2 machine types are available in Frankfurt, europe-west3-a,b. See VM instance pricing for details.

October 15, 2020

Support for 1500 MTU in VPC networks is now Generally available.

October 14, 2020

Compute-optimized (C2) machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

• Finland: europe-north1-a,b,c
• Seoul: asia-northeast3-a,b,c

See VM-instance-pricing for details.

October 12, 2020

N2 machine types are now available in the following four regions and zones:

• Las Vegas: us-west4-a,b,c
• Montréal: northamerica-northeast1-a,b,c
• Finland: europe-north1-a
• Hong Kong: asia-east2-a,b,c

For pricing details, see VM instance pricing.

October 05, 2020

You can use OS Login in VPC Service Controls. This feature is in Beta stage support.

October 02, 2020

N2D machine types are available in The Dalles, Oregon, in the us-west1-c zone. For more information, see the VM instance pricing page.

C2 machine types are now available in Sydney, Australia australia-southeast1-b. See the VM instance pricing page for details.

October 01, 2020

N2D machine types are now available in all three zones of us-east1-b,c,d in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. See VM instance pricing for details.

September 28, 2020

N2D machine types are available in The Dalles, Oregon, the us-west1-b zone. For more information, see the VM instance pricing page.

September 25, 2020

On July 28, 2020, we announced that improved validation checks will be introduced on API calls to the Compute Engine API. This change has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later time.

September 22, 2020

NVIDIA® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Sydney, Australia: australia-southeast1-a

For information about using T4 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

September 17, 2020

You can now migrate a VM instance from one network to another. This feature is available in Beta.

September 16, 2020

Troubleshoot VMs by capturing a screenshot from the VM. This is Generally Available.

September 15, 2020

SSD persistent disks attached to certain VMs with at least 64 vCPUs can now reach 100,000 write IOPS. To learn more about the requirements to reach these limits, see Block storage performance.

September 14, 2020

Compute-optimized (C2) machine types are now available in Sydney, Australia australia-southeast1-a. See VM instance pricing for details.

September 11, 2020

You can build highly available deployments of stateful workloads on VM instances using stateful managed instance groups (stateful MIGs). A stateful MIG preserves the unique state of each instance (instance name, attached persistent disks, and/or metadata) on machine restart, recreation, autohealing, or update. Stateful MIGs are Generally available.

August 24, 2020

You can now protect your Compute Engine resources using VPC Service Controls. This feature is available in Beta.

Compute Engine committed use discounts are Generally Available for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP images. Learn more about discounted image pricing at Committed use discounts.

August 20, 2020

The Organization Policy for restricting protocol forwarding creation has launched into general availability.

August 18, 2020

N2D machine types are now available in us-central1-c. For more information, see the VM instance pricing page.

N2D machine types are now available in Northern Virginia us-east4-a,b. For more information, see the VM instance pricing page.

August 12, 2020

Compute Engine Committed use discount recommendations are available in beta. Committed use recommendations give you opportunities to optimize your compute costs by analyzing your VM spending trends. For additional information, see Understanding commitment recommendations.

CPU overcommit on sole-tenant nodes lets you overprovision sole-tenant node resources and schedule more VM CPUs on a sole-tenant node than are normally available. This feature is Generally Available.

Key metrics for persistent disks in the new disk-level Monitoring tab are now Generally Available. Select any persistent disk attached to a single VM from Disks to see mean throughput, peak throughput, mean operations, and peak operations. You can also open each metric in Monitoring for querying, browsing, adding to a dashboard, or configuring alerts.

August 07, 2020

You can now update multiple instance properties using a single request from the command-line tool or the Compute Engine API to update multiple instance properties. For more information, see Updating instance properties.

August 04, 2020

You can attach a maximum of 24 local SSD partitions for 9 TB per instance. This is generally available on instances with N1 machine types. For more information, see Local SSDs.

August 03, 2020

You can now access C2 machine types in the following zones: Taiwan: asia-east1-a, Singapore: asia-southeast1-a, Sao Paulo: southamerica-east1-b,c, and Oregon: us-west1-b. For more information, see VM instance pricing.

July 31, 2020

N2D machine types are now available in asia-east1 in all three zones. For more information, see the VM instance pricing page.

July 30, 2020

When creating patch jobs, you can now choose whether to deploy zones concurrently or one at a time. You can also now specify a disruption budget for your VMs. For more information, see Patch rollout options.

N2 machines are now available in Sao Paulo southamerica-southeast1 in all three zones. For more information, see VM instance pricing.

You can access m2-megamem memory-optimized machine types in all zones that already have m2-ultramem memory-optimized machine types. These two machine types have also been added to asia-south1-b. You can use m1-ultramem machine types in asia-south1-a. To learn more, read Memory-optimized machine type family.

July 28, 2020

Improved validation checks will be introduced on API calls to compute.googleapis.com starting on August 3, 2020 to increase reliability and REST API compliance of the Compute Engine platform for all users. Learn how to Validate API Requests to ensure your requests are properly formed.

July 24, 2020

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

  • Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA: us-east4-b

  For information about using T4 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

N2 machines are now available in Northern Virginia us-east4-c. Read more information on the VM instance pricing page.

July 21, 2020

You can now create balanced persistent disks , in addition to standard and SSD persistent disks. Balanced persistent disks are an alternative to SSD persistent disks that balance performance and cost. For more information, see Persistent disk types.

July 17, 2020

The Organization Policy for restricting protocol forwarding creation has launched into Beta.

July 16, 2020

SSD persistent disks on certain machine types now have a maximum write throughput of 1,200 MB/s. To learn more about the requirements to reach these limits, see Block storage performance.

You can now suspend and resume your VM instances. This feature is available in Beta.

July 06, 2020

E2 machine types now offer up to 32 vCPUs. See E2 machine types for more information.

June 26, 2020

To support a wide variety of BYOL scenarios, you can now configure VMs to live migrate within a sole-tenant node group during host maintenance events. This is Generally Available.

June 22, 2020

N2D machine types are now available in Belgium, europe-west1, in all three zones. Read more information on the VM instance pricing page.

June 15, 2020

New sole-tenant node types (c2-node-60-240, n1-node-96-1433, and n2d-node-224-896) are available in Beta.

June 08, 2020

The asia-southeast2 Jakarta, Indonesia region is now available to all projects and users. The zones in the asia-southeast2 region have E2 and N1 machine types. See Regions and zones for more information.

Enhancements to the pre-configured Cloud Monitoring Compute Engine VM Instances dashboard. Compute Engine cross-fleet metrics and detail views specific to CPU, Disk, Memory, and Network are now available. Use filters to narrow down the set of VMs being inspected, and use the time selector or in-chart time selection to change the time window. VMs with the Monitoring agent installed get detailed memory and disk analysis out of the box.

June 05, 2020

CPU overcommit on sole-tenant nodes lets you overprovision sole-tenant node resources and schedule more VM CPUs on a sole-tenant node than are normally available. This feature is in Beta.

New sole-tenant node types (m1-node-96-1433 and n2-node-80-640) are available in Beta.

June 01, 2020

NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

• Changua County, Taiwan asia-east1-c

For information about using T4 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

May 21, 2020

E2 shared-core machine types now support committed use discounts in all regions. See the VM instance pricing page for more information.

You can now SSH to your VMs using hardware-backed SSH key pairs. For more information, see SSH with security keys.

May 20, 2020

If your managed instance group encountered errors - for example, if a VM could not be created - you can view those errors to diagnose and mitigate the cause. This is Generally available.

May 19, 2020

Troubleshoot VMs by capturing screenshots. This is in beta.

May 12, 2020

Automatically manage the size of sole-tenant node groups with the sole-tenant node group autoscaler. This is Generally Available.

May 11, 2020

You can identify idle persistent disk resources by using idle persistent disk recommendations. Following these recommendations will help reduce unused resources and reduce your compute bill. This feature is Generally available.

April 30, 2020

SSD persistent disks now have increased write throughput limits on instances with 1 to 15 vCPUs. This improvement applies to SSD persistent disks on all machine types except C2 machine types. To learn more about the requirements to reach these limits, see Block storage performance.

April 20, 2020

• The us-west4 Las Vegas, Nevada region is now available to all projects and users. The zones in the us-west4 region have N1 and E2 machine types. See Regions and zones for more information.

April 16, 2020

• Committed use discount shared billing is now available in beta. You can share committed use discounts among all your projects that fall under the same billing account. For more information, see Signing up committed use discounts.

April 15, 2020

You can identify VM instances that are not being used with idle VM recommendations. Use these recommendations to reduce unused resources and reduce your compute bill. This feature is Generally available.

You can manage, maintain, and view patch compliance for your VM instances using the OS patch management feature. For more information, see OS patch management. This feature is now Generally available.

The latest stable version of the OS Config agent is 20200402.01. If you were using OS patch management in Beta, you can update the agent on your existing VMs, see Updating the OS Config agent.

April 09, 2020

• GA: Compute Engine enables Shielded VM features by default.

April 08, 2020

• You can identify idle persistent disk resources by using idle persistent disk recommendations. Following these recommendations will help reduce unused resources and reduce your compute bill. This feature is in Beta.

April 06, 2020

• C2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA us-east4-b,c

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • The Dalles, Oregon, USA us-west1-b
  • Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA us-east4-a
  • St. Ghislain, Belgium europe-west1-d

• N2D machine types are now Generally Available.

April 01, 2020

• You can now define where your VM instances are located relative to each other on the underlying host systems in a Google datacenter. Create a placement policy to locate VM instances close to each other for low latency, or create a policy to spread VM instances out so that they do not share the same infrastructure. See Defining instance location within a zone to learn more.

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

  • Frankfurt, Germany: europe-west3-b

  For information about using T4 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

March 31, 2020

• Beta: Collect diagnostic information from Windows VMs.

• C2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Frankfurt, Germany europe-west3-a,b
  • Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA us-east4-a

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • The Dalles, Oregon, USA us-west1-a
  • Changua County, Taiwan asia-east1-c

• M1 megamem machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Eemshaven, Netherlands europe-west4-b

• M1 ultramem machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA us-east4-a

• M2 ultramem machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Los Angeles, California, USA us-west2-a,c

March 24, 2020

• Committed use discounts no longer require specific ratios for cores and memory. Now you can create separate committed use discount contracts for either cores or memory. Separating cores and memory provides more flexibility and improved cost optimization. Learn more at Purchasing commitments for machine types.

• You can preserve the names of your VM instances when rolling out updates in a managed instance group. This is Generally available.

• You can update selected VM instances in a managed instance group, with minimal disruption and in a controlled way. This is Generally available.

March 19, 2020

• E2 machine types are Generally available.

March 16, 2020

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • London, England UK europe-west2-b

• C2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • St. Ghislain, Belgium europe-west1-c,d

March 11, 2020

• You can identify VM instances that are not being used with idle VM recommendations. Use these recommendations to reduce unused resources and reduce your compute bill. This feature is Beta.

• In beta, you can create an instance with 16 or 24 local SSD partitions for 6 TB and 9 TB of local SSD space, respectively. With 24 local SSD partitions, performance can reach a combined total of 2.4 million read IOPS. For more information, see 9 TB Local SSD maximum capacity beta.

March 09, 2020

• Machine image is now available in beta. You can use machine images to store configuration, metadata, permission, and data required to create a VM instance in a single resource.

March 05, 2020

• CoreOS Container Linux images will reach their end of life on May 26, 2020. On Compute Engine, you can now use Fedora CoreOS.

March 03, 2020

• You can now create E2 machine types in all regions and zones.

March 02, 2020

• You can now use the Google Cloud Console to export images to Cloud Storage. This is Generally Available.

February 27, 2020

• E2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Los Angeles, USA us-west2-a,b,c
  • London, England, UK europe-west2-a,b,c
  • Frankfurt, Germany europe-west3-b,c
  • Tokyo, Japan asia-northeast1-a,b,c

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Frankfurt, Germany europe-west3 a,b

• C2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Council Bluffs, Iowa, US us-central1-a

• M2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Mumbai, India asia-south1-a

• You can now manage, maintain, and view patch compliance for your VM instances using the OS patch management feature. For more information, see OS patch management. This feature is available in beta.

February 24, 2020

• The us-west3 Salt Lake City, UT region is now available to all projects and users. The zones in the us-west3 region have the Skylake CPU platform. See Regions and zones for more information.

February 21, 2020

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

  • Changhua County, Taiwan: asia-east1-a
  • London, England, UK: europe-west2-b

  For information about using T4 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

February 19, 2020

• M2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Northern Virginia us-east4-a,b

• If you have configured autohealing for your managed instance group, you can review the health state of each VM in the group. This is Generally Available.

February 18, 2020

• N2D machine types are available in beta. N2D machine types are built on top of second generation AMD EPYC Rome processors. They are a great fit for general purpose workloads and for workloads that require high memory bandwidth. Learn more about these general purpose machine types.

February 13, 2020

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional regions and zones:

  • London, England, UK: europe-west2-a
  • Seoul, South Korea: asia-northeast3-b,c

  For information about using T4 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

February 12, 2020

• You can now maintain consistent software configurations across VM instances using guest policies. For more information, see OS configuration management. This feature is available in beta.

February 11, 2020

• To support a wide variety of BYOL scenarios, you can now configure VMs to live migrate within a sole-tenant node group during host maintenance events. This is available in Beta.

February 07, 2020

• Google Workspace administrators can now choose whether to include the domain suffix in usernames generated by the OS Login API. For more information, see Managing the OS Login API. This feature is Generally Available.

February 05, 2020

• Read an FAQ that can help you evaluate whether to classify sole-tenant node payments as capital expenditures (CAPEX) or operational expenditures (OPEX).

February 03, 2020

• You can build highly available deployments of stateful workloads on VM instances using stateful managed instance groups (stateful MIGs). A stateful MIG preserves the unique state of each instance (instance name, attached persistent disks, and/or metadata) on machine restart, recreation, autohealing, or update. Stateful MIGs are available in beta.

January 31, 2020

• You can now reschedule VMs on, off, or between sole-tenant nodes. This is Generally Available.

• You can now enable an autoscaler on your sole-tenant node groups. This is available in Beta.

January 24, 2020

• The asia-northeast3 Seoul region is now available to all projects and users. The zones in the asia-northeast3 region have the Skylake CPU platform. See Regions and zones for more information.

January 21, 2020

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPUs are now available in the following additional zones:

  • Tokyo: asia-northeast1-c
  • Singapore: asia-southeast1-c
  • Iowa: us-central1-f
  • Mumbai: asia-south1-a

  For information about using T4 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

• You can temporarily turn off or restrict managed instance group autoscaling. The autoscaler's configuration remains intact, and all autoscaling activities resume when you turn it on again or lift the restriction. Turning off or restricting autoscaling for managed instance groups is now Generally available.

January 09, 2020

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPU prices are reduced in all regions. For more information about the new prices for each region, see GPU pricing.

December 18, 2019

• Specifying an image storage location is now Generally Available for custom images. Specifying your image storage location helps you meet your regulatory and compliance requirements for data locality as well as your high availability needs by ensuring redundancy across regions. See Creating, deleting, and deprecating custom images, and Creating a Windows image.

December 17, 2019

• E2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Iowa us-central1-a

December 16, 2019

• On November 21, 2019, we announced that organizations would be disabled from using nested virtualization by default starting January 31, 2020. This will no longer happen and nested virtualization will be allowed by default. However, we recommend explicitly setting your organizational policy to allow or prevent nested virtualization as a best practice.

December 13, 2019

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Tokyo asia-northeast1-a,b
  • Singapore asia-southeast1-a
  • Sydney australia-southeast1-b

December 11, 2019

• E2 machine types are available in beta. These machine types are ideal for small to medium workloads that require 16 vCPUs or less, no local SSDs, and no GPUs. Learn more about these cost-optimized machine types.

December 10, 2019

• You can now create VM instances with V100 AND T4 GPUs that support network bandwidths of up to 100 Gbps. See Using network bandwidths of up to 100 Gbps. This feature is available in beta.

November 22, 2019

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • South Carolina us-east1-d
  • Belgium europe-west1-c
  • London europe-west2-c
  • Sydney australia-southeast1-a

• Virtual machines with 2 or 4 vCPUs now have a maximum egress rate of 10 Gbps. This feature is now Generally Available. For more information, see Machine types.

November 21, 2019

• After January 31, 2020, nested virtualization will be disabled by default by an organizational policy. To avoid interruptions to your workloads, update the organization policy to allow nested virtualization.

November 08, 2019

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • South Carolina us-east1-c
  • Belgium europe-west1-b
  • London europe-west2-a

November 06, 2019

• You can temporarily turn off or restrict managed instance group autoscaling. The autoscaler's configuration remains intact, and all autoscaling activities resume when you turn it on again or lift the restriction. Turning off or restricting autoscaling for managed instance groups is now available in Beta.

October 25, 2019

• As a Google Workspace admin, you can now complete the following tasks for the OS Login feature:

  • Enable OS Login using an organization policy. For more information, see Setting up an OS Login organization policy.
  • Track interactions with the OS Login API. For more information, see Auditing OS Login events

October 22, 2019

• You can attach up to 257 TB of persistent disk storage to each instance. This feature is Generally available for most machine types.

• You can issue 100K read I/Os per second on SSD persistent disks. Read the persistent disk performance document for details.

October 21, 2019

• Increased the per-instance persistent disk write throughput performance for zonal and regional SSD. Read the persistent disk performance documentation for details.

October 07, 2019

• You can now create a VM instance from a persistent disk snapshot in the API or the gcloud tool. This feature is now Generally available. Read Creating a VM instance from a snapshot for more information

October 02, 2019

• OS Inventory Management is now Generally available. For more information, read Viewing operating system details.

October 01, 2019

• Importing VM instances using open virtual appliance (OVA) is now Generally available. For more information, read Importing virtual appliances.

September 27, 2019

• N2 machine types are now Generally Available. Learn more about N2 machine types.

September 25, 2019

• The gVNIC virtual network interface is now available in Beta. For more information, see Creating VM instances that use the gVNIC network interface.

• The v1beta1 server and v0.1 metadata server endpoints are deprecated and are scheduled for shutdown. For information about transitioning to the v1 metadata server endpoint, see Transitioning to the v1 metadata server endpoint.

• For additional security when connecting to Linux instances, you can now store your host keys as guest attributes. This feature is now in General availability, see Storing host keys.

September 24, 2019

• Instances with more than 16 vCPUs have an increased standard persistent disk bandwidth limit of 1200 MB/s for reads and 400 MB/s for writes. Instances with between 8 and 15 vCPUs also have an increased standard persistent disk bandwidth limit of 800 MB/s reads and 400 MB/s for writes. Read the Persistent Disk Performance page for details.

September 23, 2019

• N2 machine types are now available in the following regions and zones:

  • Taiwan asia-east1-a, asia-east1-b
  • Netherlands europe-west4-a
  • Iowa us-central1-f

• C2 machine types are now available in following regions and zones:

  • Singapore asia-southeast1-b, asia-southeast1-c
  • Netherlands europe-west4-a
  • Los Angeles us-west2-a, us-west2-c
  • Iowa us-central1-f

September 16, 2019

• C2 machine types are now available in the South Carolina us-east1 region in all zones.

September 13, 2019

• Launched support for virtual displays to General availability.

September 04, 2019

• Reserving zonal resources is now Generally available. Reserve VMs, with or without GPUs and local SSD, in a specific zone.

September 03, 2019

• Renamed n1-megamem and n1-ultramem machine types to m1-megamem and m1-ultramem respectively.

• M1 machine types are now available in Taiwan, London, and Mumbai.

August 26, 2019

• Larger memory-optimized machine types are now Generally Available. Learn more about these larger ultramem machine types.

August 23, 2019

• N2 machine types are now available in Singapore and in the europe-west4-a zone in the Netherlands. See machine types for more information.

• C2 machine types are now available in zones in Taiwan, Tokyo, London, and in the europe-west4-a zone in the Netherlands. See machine types for more information.

August 13, 2019

• Specifying an image storage location is now available in Beta for custom images. Specifying your image storage location helps you meet your regulatory and compliance requirements for data locality as well as your high availability needs by ensuring redundancy across regions. See Creating, deleting, and deprecating custom images, and Creating a Windows image.

• For additional security when connecting to Linux instances, you can now store your host keys as guest attributes. This feature is now available in Beta, see Storing host keys.

August 12, 2019

• Scheduled snapshots for persistent disks are now Generally Available. For more information, see Creating scheduled snapshots for persistent disk.

• New general-purpose N2 machine types are now available in Beta.

July 31, 2019

• Compute-optimized machine types, are now available in General Availability. Applicable charges will apply.

July 25, 2019

• New larger memory-optimized machine types are now available in Beta. Learn more about these larger ultramem machine types.

July 17, 2019

• Memory-optimized commitments are now available in Beta. Read about Committed Use Discounts.

July 08, 2019

• You can now create VMs with compute-optimized machine types, available in Beta. Applicable charges will apply.

• You can now view operating system details for your VM instances using OS Inventory Management. This feature is available in Beta. For more information, read Viewing operating system details.

July 02, 2019

• Updating selected VM instances in a managed instance group, with minimal disruption and in a controlled way, is now available in Beta.

• Importing VM Instances using OVA or OVF virtual appliances is now available in Beta. For more information, read Importing OVF virtual appliances.

• Setting and querying guest attributes is now Generally Available. You can use guest attributes to communicate the status of applications and scripts within your instance.

June 27, 2019

• Mounting a persistent disk as a data volume in a container on Compute Engine is now Generally Available.

June 18, 2019

• Bring your own license with in-place restarts is now available in General Availability.

May 17, 2019

• Regional persistent disks can now be attached to multiple VMs in read-only mode. For more information, read Sharing a regional persistent disk between multiple instances.

• You can now use the Google Cloud Platform Console to import virtual disks.

May 16, 2019

• Snapshot locations are now Generally Available. The storage location of a snapshot affects the availability of the snapshot and networking costs for creating and restoring a snapshot. For more information, see Selecting the storage location for a snapshot.

• Multi-regional snapshot pricing is now separated from regional snapshot pricing. Read the Persistent disk pricing page to learn about multi-regional snapshot pricing.

May 07, 2019

• The following operating systems are now Generally Available as public images:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with Update Services and High Availability 7.4 and 7.6

• Red Hat has deprecated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for SAP Applications and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for HANA. For more information, read the RHEL for SAP offerings page. As a result, these images are now marked deprecated on Compute Engine.

April 29, 2019

• Reserving zonal resources is now available in Beta. You can reserve memory-optimized and general purpose VMs, with or without GPUs and local SSD, in a specific zone.

April 19, 2019

• Regional persistent disk is now Generally Available. To learn more, read Adding or resizing regional persistent disks. See the pricing page to learn how this disk type is billed.

April 18, 2019

• The asia-northeast2 Osaka region is now available to all projects and users. The zones in the asia-northeast2 region have the Skylake CPU platform. See Regions and Zones for more information.

April 10, 2019

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPU and NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 Virtual Workstations are now Generally available, in eight regions. See the GPUs on Compute Engine page to learn more.

April 05, 2019

• Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory are now available in the following zones:

  • us-east4-b
  • us-east4-c

  See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

April 02, 2019

• Bringing your own licenses with sole-tenant nodes is now available in Beta.

March 29, 2019

• Viewing VM serial port output in Stackdriver is now Generally Available. If you enable serial port output logging to Stackdriver, logs are retained for 30 days, even if your VM is deleted.

March 28, 2019

• The Compute Engine SLA has been updated.

March 27, 2019

• You can add virtual display devices to your instances. Use virtual display devices to run applications that require a display device without adding a phyiscal GPU device. Virtual display devices are available in Beta. Read Enabling Virtual Displays on Instances to learn more.

• You can now add extra security when connecting to instances using OS Login. For more information, see Setting up OS Login with two-factor authentication.

March 22, 2019

• Increased the per-instance persistent disk throughput performance to 240 MB/s for read and write bandwidth. See the Persistent Disk Performance for details.

March 11, 2019

• Added new europe-west6 region in Zürich, Switzerland. The europe-west6 region contains Skylake zones that are now available to all projects and users. See Regions and Zones for more information.

February 27, 2019

• Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory are now available in the following zones:

  • asia-northeast1-a
  • asia-southeast1-b
  • northamerica-northeast1-b
  • northamerica-northeast1-c
  • southamerica-east1-b
  • southamerica-east1-c
  • us-central1-a

  See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

February 21, 2019

• You can now attach up to 128 independent persistent disks to custom machine types and most predefined machine types. For more details, see Persistent disk limits.

February 14, 2019

• User-created scheduled snapshots for zonal and regional persistent disks is now available in Beta. Scheduled snapshots allows you to create an automatic snapshot schedule and include a retention policy for maintaining those snapshots. For more information, see Creating scheduled snapshots for persistent disk.

February 11, 2019

• Sole tenant nodes are now available in Hong Kong (asia-east2).

• Application-based health checking and autohealing for managed instance groups is now Generally Available.

February 06, 2019

• Selecting 16 KB physical block size is now in Beta. You can create zonal and regional persistent disks with a 16 KB physical block. Some database applications might see greater performance by using 16 KB physical block. Read Adding Persistent Disks for feature details. Read Optimizing Persistent Disk and Local SSD Performance for performance comparisons. Read the Best practices for persistent disk snapshots tutorial to learn more.

• Users and applications can now write to instance-specific guest-writeable metadata values. You can use guest attributes to communicate status of applications and scripts within your instance. Read Setting and querying guest attributes to learn more.

• The Managed Instance Group Updater is now Generally Available. This feature enables proactive, flexible rolling updates with the option to canary a new version on a subset of managed instance group VMs.

January 29, 2019

• Granting access to specific Compute resources, such as VM instances, disks, and images, is now Generally Available. This feature gives you flexibility to apply the principle of least privilege, for example, to grant collaborators permissions only to the specific resources that they need to do their work.

January 24, 2019

• Detaching and reattaching boot disks from a stopped VM instance is now available in GA. Use the Google Cloud Platform Console, gcloud or API to detach a failed boot disk, fix it, then reattach it back to the original VM instance. You can also use this feature for rollbacks: detach a disk, create a new disk using an earlier snapshot, and attach that restored disk to your VM. See Detaching and Reattaching Boot Disks for details.

• Creating a VM Instance with a Custom Hostname is now Generally Available.

January 16, 2019

• NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 GPU and NVIDIA® Tesla® T4 Virtual Workstations are now available, as Beta, in eight regions. See the GPUs on Compute Engine page to learn more.

January 11, 2019

• Windows Server 2019 images are now Generally Available as a public image.

• Windows Server, version 1809 images are now Generally Available as a public image. This is a Server Core image that is part of the semi-annual release cycle for Windows Server.

December 14, 2018

• User-selected snapshot storage locations are now available in Beta. The storage location of a snapshot affects the availability of the snapshot and networking costs. For more information, see Selecting the storage location for a snapshot.

• Snapshot creation might now incur networking charges. These charges will begin after this feature reaches General Availability (GA), and will depend upon the storage location of a snapshot and the location of the source disk. For more information, see Network charges for snapshot creation and restoration.

November 15, 2018

• Windows Service Activation using Private Google Access is Generally Available. Read the Private Google Access page to learn more.

November 13, 2018

• Detaching and reattaching boot disks from a stopped VM instance is now available in Beta. Use the gcloud or API command to detach a failed boot disk, fix it, then reattach it to a different VM instance. See Detaching and Reattaching Boot Disks for details.

November 08, 2018

• Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory are now available in the southamerica-east1-a zone. See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

November 07, 2018

• Creating a VM Instance with a Custom Hostname is available in Beta.

October 24, 2018

• Viewing VM serial port output in Stackdriver is available in Beta. To help with troubleshooting, these logs can be retained for up to 30 days after a VM instance is deleted.

October 22, 2018

• The asia-east2 Hong Kong region is now available to all projects and users. The zones in the asia-east2 region have the Skylake CPU platform. See Regions and Zones for more information.

October 19, 2018

• Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory are now available in the asia-southeast1-c, australia-southeast1-c, europe-west3-a, europe-west3-b and us-west2-b zones. See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

October 02, 2018

• Compute Engine now uses a resource based pricing model that provides greater savings from sustained use discounts. All machine types except for shared-core machine types are now billed by their individual vCPU and memory usage rather than billing by each machine type. Sustained use discounts are calculated for vCPU and memory usage across an entire region rather than separately for each machine type in each zone. See the Compute Engine Pricing page for details.

2018-10-02

FEATURE * Protect data on Compute Engine with Cloud Key Management Service encryption keys. Customer-Managed Encryption Keys are now generally available.

September 26, 2018

• NVIDIA® Tesla® P4 GPUs are now Generally Available. For information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

• For graphics-intensive workloads, NVIDIA® GRID®-based virtual workstations using NVIDIA® Tesla® P4 and P100 GPUs are now Generally Available. For information on GPUs for graphics-intensive applications, see GPUs for graphics workloads.

• NVIDIA® Tesla® v100 GPUs are now available in the us-central1-b and europe-west4-b zones. See GPUs on Compute Engine for a complete list of zones where GPUs are available.

• NVIDIA® Tesla® P4 GPUs are now available in the australia-southeast1-a, and australia-southeast1-b zones. See GPUs on Compute Engine for a complete list of zones where GPUs are available.

September 25, 2018

• Windows Server instances no longer require a public IP for Windows Service Activation. If your Windows Server instance uses a subnetwork that is enabled for Private Google Access, that instance can complete Windows Service Activation over its internal VPC network. Windows Service Activation using Private Google Access is available in Beta. Read the Private Google Access page to learn more.

September 20, 2018

• Deploying Docker Containers on Compute Engine is now Generally Available.

September 12, 2018

• Now in Beta, you can grant access to specific Compute resources, such as VM instances, disks, and images. This feature gives you flexibility to apply the principle of least privilege, for example, to grant collaborators permissions only to the specific resources that they need to do their work.

September 06, 2018

• Zonal DNS names are now Generally Available. Projects that enable the Compute Engine API after today will use zonal DNS names by default. Projects and organizations that enabled the Compute Engine API before today will continue to use global DNS names by default. Migrating a project to an organization will not change the default DNS name for the project. Zonal DNS names are unique to each zone on your internal VPC networks. Zonal DNS names improve the fault tolerance of your applications when they reference instances on your internal VPC network. New and existing projects can still use global DNS names, but migration is encouraged. Read Internal DNS to learn more.

September 04, 2018

• The simulateMaintenanceEvent API method is Generally Available. Read testing your availability policies to learn how to simulate a Compute Engine maintenance event and observe how the instance availability settings affect the behavior of your instances.

August 27, 2018

• NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 GPUs are now Generally Available. For information about using V100 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

August 17, 2018

• Zonal SSD persistent disks and regional SSD persistent disks now have increased read throughput and read input/output operations per second (IOPS). See Optimizing Persistent Disk and Local SSD Performance for more information.

August 08, 2018

• Sole-tenant nodes are now Generally Available. Read Sole-tenant Nodes to learn how you can use these systems to isolate your workloads from each other and from other Compute Engine projects.

August 03, 2018

• If you have graphics-intensive workloads, such as 3D rendering or video editing, you can create virtual workstations that use NVIDIA® GRID® technology, using NVIDIA® Tesla® P4 and P100 GPUs. For information on GPUs for graphics-intensive applications, see GPUs for graphics workloads.

• You can use organization policies to restrict use of your disks, custom images, and snapshots so that they can be used only within your organization or specific projects. This prevents users from creating copies of disks, outside of your organization. Read restricting use of your shared images, disks, and snapshots to learn more.

July 25, 2018

• Shielded VM is now available in Beta. Shielded VM images offer security features like UEFI-compliant firmware, Secure Boot, and vTPM-protected Measured Boot.

July 23, 2018

• The n1-megamem-* family of memory-optimized machine types with 1.4 TB of memory are now Generally Available to all projects. See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

July 19, 2018

2018-07-19

FEATURE * Selecting specific zones for regional managed instance groups is now Generally Available. See Distributing Instances using Regional Managed Instance Groups.

• Windows Server for Containers is now Generally Available as a public image.

July 18, 2018

• Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory are now Generally Available. See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

July 17, 2018

• If you need high availability and redundancy for your Microsoft SQL Server on Compute Engine, you can configure an Always On Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).

July 11, 2018

• Virtual machine sizing recommendations are now Generally Available.

July 10, 2018

• Added new us-west2 Los Angeles region. us-west2 contains Skylake zones that are now available to all projects and users. See Regions and Zones for more information.

• If you try to create a new instance in this zone for a project that existed before this release date, you may receive the following error message: "No default subnetwork was found in the region of the instance." This issue will be resolved within three days of this launch. In the meantime, the workaround is to manually create a subnet and use it for a new VM.

• Creating an instance template from a VM instance is now Generally Available. This feature can be used for instance duplication, backup, and recreation.

July 02, 2018

• You can now add 2 and 4 NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 GPUs to your Compute Engine instances. For information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

June 22, 2018

• You can purchase committed use discounts for memory-optimized machine types. Memory-optimized machine types use their own commitment type with different pricing. You must request access to use committed use discounts for memory-optimized machine types. See the pricing page for pricing details about committed use discounts.

June 19, 2018

• The Compute Engine Trusted Images policy is now Generally Available. Use this policy to control which boot disk images your project members can access. Read Restricting Access to Images for more information.

June 11, 2018

• Added new europe-north1 region. europe-north1 contains Skylake zones that are now available to all projects and users. See Regions and Zones for more information.

• If you try to create a new instance in this zone for a project that existed before this release date, you may receive the following error message: "No default subnetwork was found in the region of the instance." This issue will be resolved within three days of this launch. In the meanwhile, the workaround is to manually create a subnet and use it for a new VM.

• The prices for GPUs on preemptible VM instances have reduced. For the updated prices, see the GPUs pricing page.

• GPUs on preemptible VM instances are now Generally Available.

  For information about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

June 07, 2018

• You can create sole-tenant nodes, which are physical Compute Engine servers that are dedicated to hosting only VM instances from your specific project. Read Sole-tenant Nodes to learn how you can use these systems to isolate your workloads from each other and from other Compute Engine projects.

June 05, 2018

• Protect data on Compute Engine with Cloud Key Management Service encryption keys. Customer-Managed Encryption Keys are now available in beta.

May 28, 2018

NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 GPUs are now available in the following regions:

• us-west1-a
• us-central1-a
• asia-east1-c

For information about using V100 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

May 23, 2018

• Added support for regional persistent disks into Beta. This feature provides synchronous block-level replication across two zones in a region for each regional persistent disk.

May 16, 2018

• Instances with NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 GPUs can now use Local SSD devices. For information on using V100 GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

May 08, 2018

• Memory-optimized machine types with up to 160 vCPUs and 3.75 TB of memory are now available in Beta. See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

May 07, 2018

• Added local SSD support to the europe-west4-a zone. See Regions and Zones for more information.

May 01, 2018

• Added a third zone to the asia-southeast1 region. This zone supports machine types with up to 96 vCPUs when using the Skylake platform. See Regions and Zones for more information.

April 30, 2018

• NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 GPUs are now available in Beta. For information on the zones where V100 GPUs are available, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

April 20, 2018

• NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPUs are now Generally Available. To learn about the zones where P100 GPUs are available, read GPUs on Compute Engine.

• Creating multiple secondary non-boot disks when you create your VM instance is now Generally Available.

April 19, 2018

• The price of SLES for SAP images is reduced. Read SUSE premium image pricing for details.

April 17, 2018

NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPUs are now available in the following zones:

• asia-east1-c
• europe-west4-a

To learn more about using GPUs on Compute Engine, see GPUs on Compute Engine.

April 11, 2018

• You can now run simulated maintenance events to test the effects of live migration, termination, and preemption on your instances. Simulated maintenance events are available in Beta. Read testing your availability policies to learn how to test maintenance events on your instances.

• Nested Virtualization is now Generally Available.

March 28, 2018

• You can import existing virtual disks (VMDKs, VHDs, etc) into Compute Engine as custom images. Importing virtual disks is now Generally Available.

March 23, 2018

• You can import a Windows Server 2003 server to Compute Engine using the CloudEndure migration service. For steps, see Migrating VMs to Compute Engine.

March 14, 2018

• Creating an image from a snapshot is now Generally Available. See the creating custom images page.

March 13, 2018

• Added a third zone to the europe-west4 region. This zone supports 96 vCPU high memory/high CPU machines. There is no support for local SSDs at this time. See Regions and Zones for more information. For regional managed instance group users, the addition of a third zone in europe-west4 offers you more flexibilty to specify zones in this region. Note that if you do not specify the zones for your instances, Compute Engine, by default, selects all three zones. See Distributing Instances using Regional Managed Instance Groups to learn more.

March 08, 2018

• Added support for PTR records on VM instances to General Availability. See Creating a PTR record for VM instances.

March 07, 2018

• You can import existing virtual disks (VMDKs, VHDs, etc) into Compute Engine as functioning images. Importing virtual disks is available in Beta.

March 02, 2018

• Mega-memory machine types with 1.4 TB of memory are now available in Beta. See the pricing page to learn how these machine types are billed.

February 22, 2018

• Creating multiple secondary non-boot disks when you create your VM instance is now available in Beta.

February 09, 2018

• 96 vCPU machine types are Generally Available. These machine types are now available in several additional zones only on the Skylake platform. Read the list of available regions and zones to see where 96 vCPU machine types are available.

February 01, 2018

• Added support for creating an instance template from a VM instance into Beta. This feature can be used for instance duplication, backup, and recreation.

January 31, 2018

• Compute Engine supports IAM Custom Roles. Read the IAM Custom Roles documentation to learn more. You can identify which permissions are required to run Compute Engine methods in both the V1 Compute Engine API reference and on the Compute Engine IAM Permissions page.

• You can configure autoscaling for groups of instances based on a wider range of metrics, which allow you to scale managed instance groups on per-group metrics rather than average resource utilization across all of the instances in a group. Autoscaling using per-group metrics is available in Beta.

• You can filter Stackdriver monitoring metrics when you use them to configure autoscaling for your managed instance groups. Filtering per-instance metrics is available in Beta.

January 24, 2018

• The OS Login API and key management feature is now Generally Available. You can associate your public SSH keys with your Google account or with individual member accounts in a Google Workspace organization or Cloud Identity organization. Read Managing Instance Access for more information.

January 22, 2018

• For NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 GPUs in the asia-east1-a and us-east1-d zones, you can create GPU instances with up to 416 GB of memory.

To learn more about the zones where GPUs are available, read GPUs on Compute Engine.

January 11, 2018

• VM Deletion Protection is now Generally Available.

January 10, 2018

• Added new europe-west4 region. europe-west4 contains Skylake zones that are now available to all projects and users. See Regions and Zones for more information.

• Added new northamerica-northeast1 Montréal region. northamerica-northeast1 contains Skylake zones that are now available to all projects and users. See Regions and Zones for more information.

January 08, 2018

• Zonal DNS names are available in Beta. Zonal DNS names are unique to each zone on your internal VPC networks. Global DNS names continue to resolve, but you can enable zonal DNS names to improve the fault tolerance of your applications when they reference instances on your internal VPC network. Read Zonal DNS to learn more.