diff --git a/.changelog/4634.txt b/.changelog/4634.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..446eae3f07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/4634.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```release-note:bug
+compute: added minimum for `scopes` field to `google_compute_instance` resource
+```
diff --git a/google-beta/resource_compute_instance.go b/google-beta/resource_compute_instance.go
index 9c43492410..1f46f657f9 100644
--- a/google-beta/resource_compute_instance.go
+++ b/google-beta/resource_compute_instance.go
@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ func resourceComputeInstance() *schema.Resource {
 						"scopes": {
 							Type:        schema.TypeSet,
 							Required:    true,
+							MinItems:    1,
 							Description: `A list of service scopes.`,
 							Elem: &schema.Schema{
 								Type: schema.TypeString,
diff --git a/google-beta/resource_dataflow_flex_template_job_test.go b/google-beta/resource_dataflow_flex_template_job_test.go
index df04d28bb0..0d037482e0 100644
--- a/google-beta/resource_dataflow_flex_template_job_test.go
+++ b/google-beta/resource_dataflow_flex_template_job_test.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/resource"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/terraform"
-	"google.golang.org/api/compute/v1"
+	compute "google.golang.org/api/compute/v1"
 )
 
 func TestAccDataflowFlexTemplateJob_basic(t *testing.T) {