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Google Cloud details deploying personal AI agents on Cloud Run instances

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Google Cloud details how to deploy personal, long-lived AI agents using Cloud Run instances. These instances offer a cost-effective alternative to full VMs by providing dedicated, singleton compute runtimes that run continuously for up to seven days, with automatic restarts and a persistent HTTPS URL. This model is ideal for individual developers or personal AI agents that require continuous operation without constant compute-intensive work, offering predictable pricing. Currently in preview, Cloud Run instances are also soon to gain SSH access for both instances and services.

  • →Cloud Run instances for long-lived, stateful AI agents
  • →Key features and cost-effectiveness of Cloud Run instances
  • →Example deployment of OpenClaw personal AI agent
  • →Upcoming SSH access and customer feedback
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  • Cloud Run instances for long-lived, stateful AI agents

    This post details how Cloud Run instances provide dedicated, singleton compute runtimes, offering a low-cost, high-performance solution for stateful workloads like personal AI agents. Unlike Cloud Run services, they do not scale to zero, making them suitable for continuous operation.

  • Key features and cost-effectiveness of Cloud Run instances

    Instances run as a single, non-autoscaling unit for up to 7 days continuously, with automatic restarts and a persistent HTTPS URL. Users can stop and resume instances as needed, with a 30-day continuous cost of $5.70 for 1 vCPU and 1 GiB memory, utilizing shared vCPU with burst budgets.

  • Example deployment of OpenClaw personal AI agent

    The article provides a step-by-step example for deploying the open-source OpenClaw personal AI agent to a Cloud Run instance. This involves uploading configuration to Cloud Storage and using a gcloud beta run instances create command.

  • Upcoming SSH access and customer feedback

    SSH access for both Cloud Run instances and services is announced as "coming soon" for private access sign-ups. Customer "OffDeal" reports an 88% reduction in cold starts by using Cloud Run instances for their long-running AI agents.

Read the original announcement →

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/introducing-cloud-run-instances/

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