title: Can google access data on compute engine virtual machine?
body: <p>I'm using an always-free VM on Google Cloud (e2-micro). When creating the instance, there's an option <code>Enable Confidential Computing service</code>, but that requires <code>n2d</code> machine, not part of the always-free resources.</p>
  <p>Does that mean Google can read my VM's data?</p>
  <p>In other words, without that option enabled, what can Google read on my VM?</p>
  <p>I'm not worried about system health monitoring data. I'm only concerned with files and folders that I put there.</p>