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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.