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Cloud Changelog
Compute Engine changelog
13 announcements since September 2026 · 11 GA · 1 deprecation
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October 202610
Gives the guest OS up to six hours to finish tasks when stopping instancesGA
Storage-optimized machines with up to 1,536 GB memory, 168,000 GiB local SSD, 400 Gbps networkingGA
Targeted future reservations and resizing of multi-writer Hyperdisk volumes while attachedGA
Regional read-only projectViews and imageViews endpoints isolate control-plane reads to one regionGA
Network-optimized types with 375 GiB to 12,000 GiB of attached Titanium SSDGA
VM clock sync with host using chrony and ptp_kvm, accuracy designed within 1 msGA
Reservations through an account team can include a Hyperdisk poolGA
8 to 44 vCPU types use Hyperdisk Balanced High Availability; external IPv6 for Standard TierGA
Supported on C3 bare metal and on C4 instances created after May 1, 2026GA