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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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

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.

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-GCP 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

March 19, 2020

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

March 02, 2020

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

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 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

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

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

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.

October 21, 2019

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

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

  • 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

September 04, 2019

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

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

  • 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

July 31, 2019

July 25, 2019

July 17, 2019

July 08, 2019

  • 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

June 27, 2019

June 18, 2019

May 17, 2019

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

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

April 02, 2019

March 29, 2019

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.

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

February 06, 2019

  • 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.

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.

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.

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

November 07, 2018

October 24, 2018

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

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

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

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

July 17, 2018

July 11, 2018

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.

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

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

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

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.

April 19, 2018

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.

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

March 14, 2018

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

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

February 22, 2018

February 09, 2018

February 01, 2018

January 31, 2018

  • 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

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.