What Google is adding
Google is also adding controls for managing agent workloads:
These controls will also come to Cloud Run, GKE and managed endpoints.
The infrastructure bet
The tenfold capacity claim is striking, but the announcement gives no details about the comparison behind it. I think that missing baseline matters: the result could depend on what counts as an agent, how much work it does and what hardware the test used.
The sub-500-millisecond pause-and-resume result is more concrete, though it is still a test with 200,000 agents, not a description of performance under every workload. What I’d want to know is how the isolation and recovery costs change when agents are doing sustained work rather than waiting to be resumed. Google is making a case for the runtime; the unanswered question is whether its efficiency claims hold up across the workloads developers actually need to run.
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