Abstract: Embodiments of techniques and systems f associated with reserving native computing devices are described. In some embodiments, an apparatus may receive an indicator of a native computing device to be reserved for a computing client and an indicator of an execution image to be written to the native computing device. The native computing device, the computing client and the apparatus may be remotely disposed from each other. The apparatus may cause a first communication path to be established to enable the execution image to be written to the native computing device on behalf of the computing client. On completion of the writing of the execution image to the native computing device, the apparatus may cause a second communication path to be established for the native computing device to be available for computational use by the computing client. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.