Cloud updates
What is new across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Announcements and product news from the official AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud feeds, refreshed through the day.
Latest updates
Every item links to its original source.
Read the full announcement on the publisher's own site.
Showing 120 updatesChecked
Amazon ECS now supports GPU sharing with NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS) (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports GPU sharing with NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS), enabling you to run multiple Amazon ECS tasks concurrently on a…
Generally Available: Higher limit of Azure Blob Storage accounts per region per subscription (opens in a new tab)
Higher Azure Storage account resource quotas are now generally available, supporting up to 1,000 storage accounts with standard endpoints per region, per subscription, up from…
SageMaker MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16 (opens in a new tab)
Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16, bringing a redesigned tracing experience and faster experiment tracking to your generative AI and machine learning…
Introducing VMware solution on Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)
Many organizations with workloads on VMware are looking for ways to expedite their data center exits, migrate and modernize their mission-critical workloads, or simply leverage…
Powering the agentic enterprise with latest innovations in Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)
For decades, core enterprise operations — from global supply chains and financial ledgers to billing engines — have relied on the performance and transactional integrity of…
Generally Available: Cost management and tagging for Claude models in Microsoft Foundry (opens in a new tab)
Microsoft Foundry now brings Claude models into Azure Cost Management alongside the rest of your Foundry spend, generally available. Until now, Claude charges appeared under SaaS…
Generally Available: Azure Front Door profile and route level WAF policies (opens in a new tab)
Announcing the general availability of profile and route level policies for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door Premium. WAF policies are no longer limited…
Amazon Aurora serverless now supports up to 384 ACUs (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Aurora serverless now supports database capacity of up to 384 Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs) for Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, a 50% increase from the previous…
Securely connecting Gemini Enterprise to Snowflake data (opens in a new tab)
Enterprise AI needs to go beyond simple chat interfaces. To provide real value, AI agents must access your data warehouses to generate actionable insights, all while maintaining…
Scale agents securely with IAM Helper Agent Skills and MCP Tools (opens in a new tab)
As organizations adopt autonomous agents to build applications, securing identities and access has become more challenging. Developers relying on agents to provision cloud…
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports changing durability on existing clusters (opens in a new tab)
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now lets you enable or disable durability on your existing node-based clusters without creating a new cluster. Previously, you couldn't change the…
Amazon Corretto October 2026 Patch Updates (opens in a new tab)
On October 26, 2026 Amazon announced a patch update for the following Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 27.0.1.0.11…
Bringing Google TPUs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (opens in a new tab)
As AI workloads scale across every industry, organizations need compute options that optimize throughput, latency, and unit economics across the AI lifecycle. To meet this…
Gemini Robotics Embodied Reasoning 2 is now available on Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)
Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Robotics 2 — our next-generation intelligence layer enabling robots to think, act, and adapt in the physical world. At the core of this…
Amazon Neptune now supports online index rebuild to reclaim storage (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Neptune Database now supports online index rebuild, a new capability that helps database administrators and application teams defragment Neptune indexes and reclaim unused…
Google Cloud and NASA: Testing robotic systems for deep space missions (opens in a new tab)
As NASA advances its Artemis program to send astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon, build a sustained human presence there with a Moon Base…
Amazon ECR now supports replication backfill for existing container images (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports replication backfill, enabling you to replicate existing images in your private registry to your configured…
Easy to integrate, compliant by design: Bringing the Swiss Franc to Google Cloud Universal Ledger (opens in a new tab)
Every day, countless financial transactions are interrupted by slow, expensive, and inflexible conventional payment systems. As a result, public commercial stablecoins like…
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock (opens in a new tab)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-6.1 Terra expands the GPT-6 family with a balance of capability, speed, and cost…
Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports ModifyVolume API (opens in a new tab)
Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports the ModifyVolume API, which lets you change volume size, volume type, IOPS, or throughput in place, without detaching the…
Generally Available: Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering (opens in a new tab)
Azure Network Watcher VNet flow logs filtering is now generally available, enabling you to control which network traffic flows are logged based on specific criteria such as IP…
Scale reservoir uncertainty analysis with agile reservoir modeling (opens in a new tab)
As subsurface data grows in scale and complexity, teams need a faster, more connected way to transform uncertainty into actionable decisions.
Unifying enterprise context and semantics: LookML in Knowledge Catalog is now GA (opens in a new tab)
As enterprises go from experimental AI agent prototypes to using them in production, data teams are realizing that access to data is not the same as understanding that data. To…
Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming now provides a failover slate (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) Low-Latency Streaming now provides a failover slate, an animated image that IVS displays to viewers when a broadcaster's stream is…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds light mode support for IDC-based domains (opens in a new tab)
Today, AWS announces light mode support in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for Identity Center (IDC) based domains. Customers can now configure the visual interface mode to match…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative…
Amazon Connect Customer expands testing and simulation to validate flow action outcomes (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Connect Customer now enables you to validate the outcomes of your customer experience flow actions during testing and simulation. In addition to confirming that an action…
Amazon Connect Customer now lets you view metrics by customer lifetime value and repeat-caller status (opens in a new tab)
Now you can view your metrics across customer segments: customer lifetime value (LTV) and repeat callers. See how any metric differs for repeat callers versus the rest of your…
Amazon Connect Customer now measures the outcomes that drive retention and revenue (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Connect Customer now scores the outcome of your customer interactions. It shows whether the customer left satisfied, is at risk of churning, made a purchase, or resolved…
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports cross-Region trusted identity propagation (opens in a new tab)
Trusted identity propagation carries a user's identity with their request, so AWS services can grant permissions based on who the user is and their underlying group associations…
AWS Key Management Service now supports ML-KEM for post-quantum key encapsulation (opens in a new tab)
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now supports Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM), a post-quantum cryptography standard under NIST FIPS 203 , which enables…
AWS EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Launch Before Terminate at account-level to replace instances (opens in a new tab)
AWS EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you enable Launch Before Terminate as the default replacement behavior across all Auto Scaling groups in your account. When enabled, Auto Scaling…
AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now supports endpoint connection management (opens in a new tab)
AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now supports managing external connections through a new endpoint registry. The registry provides a centralized interface to register and manage…
Amazon RDS now supports the latest Cumulative Update and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL…
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs (opens in a new tab)
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth 2.0 bearer token authentication for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) APIs using AWS Sign-In. The Apache Iceberg REST Catalog…
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock now supports domain filtering and user location controls (opens in a new tab)
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock now supports two new controls that give you more precision over the results that ground a model's response: domain filtering and user location. Both…
Generally Available: Item Level Recovery for Azure VMs with Premium SSDv2 and Ultra Disks in Azure Backup (opens in a new tab)
Azure Backup now supports Item-Level Recovery (ILR) for Azure virtual machines using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks with both 512 byte and 4KB logical sector sizes. You can now…
Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now supports persistent chat across linked AWS Regions (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now provides customers a mechanism to deliver long, persistent chat experiences across linked AWS Regions. With this capability, end…
AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now support 1:1 NAT (opens in a new tab)
AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now provide managed one-to-one network address translation (NAT) directly on their attachments, through integration with Regional Private…
Amazon Corretto October 2026 Quarterly Updates (opens in a new tab)
On October 22, 2026 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 27.0.1.0.10, 25.0.5.0.9…
Amazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percent (opens in a new tab)
Amazon EMR announces a reduction of 30 percent in the EMR charge added to EKS when running EMR on EKS. This price decrease applies to both the per-vCPU-hour charge and the…
Amazon MWAA now available in Mexico (Central) Region (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) Provisioned environments are now available in the Mexico (Central) Region (mx-central-1). Amazon MWAA Serverless was…
Amazon Connect Customer now supports customizing the Customer Profiles app on the agent workspace (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now allows administrators to customize which customer data that agents see in the agent workspace, and how it is displayed, using layouts they…
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available (opens in a new tab)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities. Continuum for code vulnerabilities discovers, validates, prioritizes, and remediates code…
Expanding Claude availability and deployment choice on Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)
Every organization has unique requirements for building and scaling generative AI. At Google Cloud, we are committed to giving developers model choice and architectural…
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces intelligent ingestion for logs and documents in Amazon S3 (opens in a new tab)
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now offers intelligent ingestion, a fully managed feature that turns logs and documents stored in Amazon S3 into searchable content in Amazon…
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available (opens in a new tab)
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then…
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports a 5-second default refresh interval (opens in a new tab)
Starting today, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless reduces the default refresh interval to 5 seconds for both search and vector collections. The refresh interval controls how quickly…
Generally Available: ABFS Vectored Read for Azure Data Lake Storage (opens in a new tab)
ABFS Vectored Read helps compatible analytics engines reduce request overhead for selective reads in Azure Data Lake Storage. By combining nearby file ranges into fewer storage…
AWS CloudFormation now simplifies stack update rollback operations (opens in a new tab)
AWS CloudFormation now makes it simpler to complete an update rollback and get back to deploying. An update rollback returns your stack to a known good state. Starting today, if…
Amazon SageMaker AI announces training session APIs for serverless model customization (opens in a new tab)
Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports training session APIs, giving customers full control over their post-training algorithm without provisioning or…
AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Bangalore, India (opens in a new tab)
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the existing AWS Direct Connect location in the Netmagic DC2 data center near Bangalore, India. You can…
Introducing new self-learning context enrichment in Knowledge Catalog (opens in a new tab)
Today, we’re launching self-learning context enrichment (preview) and a reimagined Knowledge Studio experience (preview) in Knowledge Catalog , Google Cloud’s context engine for…
Amazon MSK Connect now supports pausing and resuming connectors (opens in a new tab)
Amazon MSK Connect (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect) now supports pausing and resuming connectors, letting you temporarily pause a connector from processing…
Inside Agent Compute Engine: Building the compute foundation for the agentic era (opens in a new tab)
Every decade or so, a shift in software forces us to rethink computer architecture from first principles. After the first boom of web-scale traffic, Google pioneered…
AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile preview with Megaport (opens in a new tab)
AWS launches AWS Interconnect - last mile preview with Megaport, a fully managed connectivity offering that allows customers to connect their branch offices, data centers, and…
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Muse Glimmer, Qwen 3.8 and Ministral 3 models (opens in a new tab)
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Muse Glimmer, Qwen3.8 27B, and Ministral 3 3B, 8B, and 14B models. In addition to deploying these models on…
AgentCore Gateway now supports Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and model fallback (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports the Amazon Bedrock InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs on its inference endpoint, along with model fallback routing…
AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 4 additional AWS regions (opens in a new tab)
AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Europe (Spain). With this…
Amazon Quick Now Available in the AWS Singapore Region (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) region (ap-southeast-1). This launch allows customers in Singapore to access the full power of Amazon Quick…
Introducing Agent Compute Engine and expanded agent governance (opens in a new tab)
Blog authors: Nirav Mehta, VP Product Management; Michael Bachman, VP/GM; Kevin Hutchins, VP Product Management Scaling Gemini to planet scale taught us firsthand that securely…
AWS Transform adds storage migration assessments for Amazon S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx (opens in a new tab)
Migration assessments in AWS Transform now evaluate on-premises storage for migration to AWS. Instead of manually analyzing thousands of volumes across protocols, capacity, and…
AWS Service Reference Information now supports global condition keys, service names, and data plane classification (opens in a new tab)
AWS is expanding programmatic service reference information to help you automate IAM policy management and keep your policies aligned with the latest service updates. The service…
Announcing: Choose Your Own Telephony (CYOT) for Microsoft Entra (opens in a new tab)
What and whyStarting October 30, 2026, Microsoft Entra ID will make the Choose Your Own Telephony Provider experience available. This feature enables organizations to use a…
AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Manchester, England (opens in a new tab)
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections with MACsec encryption capabilities at the existing AWS Direct Connect location in the Equinix…
Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB Safe Key Rotation (opens in a new tab)
Safe Key Rotation for Azure Cosmos DB is now generally available. You can view timestamp metadata showing when each account key was last used, helping you identify active keys…
Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservations (opens in a new tab)
Starting today, you can reserve compute capacity for your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS DB instances in one or more Availability Zones for as long as you need it. Reserving…
Amazon Cognito extends multi-Region replication to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Cognito multi-Region replication (MRR) now supports AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, extending the resilience benefits of MRR to more workloads. MRR lets you synchronize user…
ZenteiQ scales batch inference 4x with GKE Inference Gateway powered by llm-d (opens in a new tab)
Today we hear from ZenteiQ , an artificial intelligence startup spun out of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build sovereign…
BigQuery ObjectRef now GA: Build multimodal data platforms for conversational analytics entirely in SQL (opens in a new tab)
For data science, data engineering, and machine learning teams, unlocking the value of unstructured data, such as images, videos, audio, and documents, has historically meant…
Beam model by Reflection is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Trainium (opens in a new tab)
Beam, the first open weight model offered by US-based Reflection, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, the model hub in Amazon SageMaker AI. According to Beam, they…
AWS Neuron 2.33 adds native PyTorch support, Neuron Observer, and other new features (opens in a new tab)
AWS Neuron 2.33 is now available, introducing TorchNeuron, the native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium, in public beta. You can run models written with the standard PyTorch APIs…
Responding to core PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (opens in a new tab)
Editor's note : This blog was updated on Oct. 23, 2026 at 3:20 p.m. PDT, with additional guidance from Mandiant Consulting on monitoring, patching, and remediation. We have…
Amazon Connect Customer launches two new layouts for agent workspace (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Connect Customer now offers two different layouts that optimize screen space on the agent workspace. Contact center agents spend hours each day in the agent workspace…
Amazon S3 server access log delivery to Amazon CloudWatch Logs now available in five additional AWS Regions (opens in a new tab)
Amazon S3 server access log delivery to Amazon CloudWatch Logs is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and AWS China Regions. With your…
Google Public Sector increases partner investments for frontline adoption (opens in a new tab)
Partnership is at the core of Google Public Sector’s mission to empower government agencies and education institutions with transformative, mission-aligned solutions. We…
Google Cloud expands model choice and flexibility, bringing OpenAI models to customers (opens in a new tab)
Google Cloud has always been defined by choice, enterprise-grade governance, and market-leading price-performance. Key to the foundation of openness and choice is giving…
Hardware-backed security at global scale: Confidential G4 with NVIDIA Blackwell is GA (opens in a new tab)
Bringing autonomous agents into production means processing sensitive data and valuable intellectual property in real time. Protecting proprietary model weights, user prompts…
Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand co-engineering collaboration to scale infrastructure for the agentic era (opens in a new tab)
As enterprises transition to continuous, multi-step agentic workflows, traditional infrastructure is hitting its limits. But raw performance is only part of the equation. To…
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports custom sequence lengths for serverless model customization jobs (opens in a new tab)
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces the ability to configure the sequence length used during your serverless model customization job. Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model…
AWS Transform now builds new networks and modernizes security groups (opens in a new tab)
AWS Transform for migrations now gives you three ways to bring your network to AWS. In addition to migrating and modernizing your existing network, you can build a new network…
Public Preview: Disable VNet peering route (opens in a new tab)
Announcing the public preview of disable VNet peering route, a route-table capability that gives you more control over traffic between peered virtual networks. DPR suppresses…
Advancing digital sovereignty with greater control and choice (opens in a new tab)
Across conversations with leaders in government, critical infrastructure and regulated industries, one priority consistently rises to the top: putting technology to work on the…
Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS services (opens in a new tab)
Try Amazon ECS Gateway, a new account-level resource that simplifies ingress networking for containerized workloads by dynamically provisioning and managing the necessary…
Generally Available: Service tag match condition for Azure Front Door Premium WAF (opens in a new tab)
Announcing the general availability of the service tag match condition for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules on Azure Front Door Premium. Service tags represent…
Generally Available: Keyless TLS on Application Gateway with Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (opens in a new tab)
Azure Application Gateway now supports keyless TLS termination using certificates whose private keys stay in Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. Each TLS handshake signature is…
Generally Available: Advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor (opens in a new tab)
Advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor are now generally available. Advanced platform metrics provide finer-grained signals that help customers more quickly and accurately…
Generally Available: Metrics usage insights for Azure Monitor workspace (opens in a new tab)
Metrics usage insights is now generally available, giving you greater visibility into what’s driving metrics usage across your Azure Monitor workspace. Monitor workspace…
Designing for sovereign AI: A shared foundation from edge to cloud (opens in a new tab)
A flexible sovereign architecture allows organizations to place each workload in the right environment, apply the controls it requires, and maintain consistency.
Generally Available: Azure DNS enables DNS-based load balancing through Traffic Manager linked records (opens in a new tab)
Azure DNS now provides DNS based load balancing by seamless integration with Azure Traffic Manager. Customers can directly associate an Azure DNS record set with a Traffic…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda Web Functions, Amazon S3 on the Vercel Marketplace, and more (October 19, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
Nothing last week added a new kind of compute. What it did instead was shorten the distance between the code you already have and that code being live. AWS Lambda learned to run…
Public Preview: Azure Databricks Private network gateway (opens in a new tab)
Private network gateway for Azure Databricks is now in Public Preview, enabling serverless compute to connect to resources in your virtual network (VNet) and transitively…
Generally Available: External key management for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (opens in a new tab)
External key management for Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is now generally available in all Azure public regions. For organizations with regulatory or sovereignty requirements to…
Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments (opens in a new tab)
The growing AI landscape is giving enterprises more choice in how they build, customize, and deploy increasingly capable models.
Public Preview: Azure Files cross-region data copy and synchronization with Azure Storage Mover (opens in a new tab)
Azure Files customers can now copy and synchronize file share data across storage accounts, Azure regions, and subscriptions within the same tenant using Azure Storage Mover…
Generally Available: Standard service endpoint (opens in a new tab)
Standard service endpoint, a new capability in the Azure Private Link family, provides a scalable and secure approach for connecting Azure IaaS workloads to Azure PaaS services…
Generally Availabile: Automatic zone balance for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (opens in a new tab)
Automatic zone balance for Virtual Machine Scale Sets is now generally available. This feature continuously monitors scale sets deployed across availability zones and…
Evolving the cloud-native foundation for the next generation of AI (opens in a new tab)
Discover how Azure is advancing cloud-native infrastructure to help organizations build, run, and optimize applications and agents at scale.
Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel (opens in a new tab)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), including Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon S3 Vectors, is natively available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel.
Generally Available: Azure Cloud HSM hardware audit logging (opens in a new tab)
Hardware Audit Logging for Azure Cloud HSM provides hardware-generated audit records for supported HSM management operations, helping organizations strengthen security…
Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery Support for Azure ARC-enabled Windows VMWare/Physical servers (opens in a new tab)
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports disaster recovery for Azure ARC-enabled Windows VMWare virtual machines and on-premise physical servers. Customers can protect ARC-managed…
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms (opens in a new tab)
We're building operational consistency through Azure and Azure Arc, and infrastructure consistency through Hyper-V.
Advancing hardware security with open-source Integrated HSM technology (opens in a new tab)
Explore how Microsoft is advancing hardware security through open-source Integrated HSM technology, collaboration, and cryptographic key protection.
Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration (opens in a new tab)
AI is reaching such a pivotal moment, and the focus is shifting from building larger frontier models to intelligence that delivers practical impact.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Prime Day 2026 by the numbers, Claude Haiku 5.5, Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, and more (October 13, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the…
Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions (opens in a new tab)
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and…
Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (opens in a new tab)
Maia 300 operates as a single platform to meet the demands of cloud-scale agentic inference.
Retirement: Azure Key Vault Secrets Provider Extension for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters (opens in a new tab)
The Azure Key Vault Secrets Provider Extension for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes will be retired on October 9, 2027.Customers currently using the extension should plan to migrate…
Generally Available: Managed StandardV2 NAT Gateway for AKS (opens in a new tab)
AKS will now provision and manage a StandardV2 NAT Gateway for clusters using an AKS-managed virtual network.StandardV2 is now the default managed NAT Gateway SKU for new…
Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in East US 3 (opens in a new tab)
Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the East US 3 Azure region. Learn more.
Retirement: Microsoft Dev Box will be retired on September 18, 2028 (opens in a new tab)
Microsoft Dev Box will retire on September 18, 2028. Beginning on September 14, 2026, Microsoft Dev Box will begin the closing-down process. After retirement, Microsoft Dev Box…
Retirement: Azure Deployment Environments will be retired on February 22, 2027 (opens in a new tab)
Azure Deployment Environments will retire on February 22, 2027. Beginning on September 14, 2026, Azure Deployment Environments will begin the closing-down process. After…
Generally Available: Exceptions in WAF for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door (opens in a new tab)
Announcing the general availability of exceptions for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door.Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps…
Public Preview: Microsoft Agent 365 integration with Azure API Management (opens in a new tab)
The integration between Microsoft Agent 365 and Azure API Management is now available in public preview, helping organizations connect centralized governance with runtime…
Announcing: Multiparty private offers in Microsoft Marketplace expands to Hong Kong (opens in a new tab)
Multiparty private offers give Microsoft partners a way to procure third-party cloud and AI solutions for customers through Marketplace. Software companies can expand into new…
Generally Available: Anyscale on Azure (opens in a new tab)
Anyscale on Azure is now Generally Available. Anyscale on Azure is a managed platform for running distributed Python workloads on Ray. It deploys directly onto your Azure…
Generally Available: Enabling the Bulk admin role for SQL Server on Linux (opens in a new tab)
Starting with SQL Server 2025 CU9 and SQL Server 2022 CU27, SQL Server on Linux supports the bulkadmin fixed server role and the ADMINISTER BULK OPERATIONS permission for…
AI transformation across the infrastructure lifecycle: From supply chain to fleet operations (opens in a new tab)
The opportunity is bigger than making individual tasks faster. It’s to build a system that learns from how infrastructure is designed, sourced, and operated.
Retirement: Pod name dimension in AKS pod platform metrics (opens in a new tab)
Beginning September 30, 2027, support for the pod name dimension on the following Azure Monitor platform metrics is retiring, and these metrics are transitioning to aggregate pod…
Retirement: Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub (opens in a new tab)
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub will be retired on September 30, 2029. Starting September 30, 2026, new installations will no longer be supported, and no new product…
No updates match these filters.
Read them at the source:AWS What's New andAzure updates, and theGoogle Cloud blog.
Source: AWS What's New, AWS News Blog, Azure updates, the Azure blog and the Google Cloud blog. Titles, excerpts and links belong to their original publishers, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, and Cypik does not edit them. Topic filters are assigned by Cypik from keywords in each title and excerpt, so an item can appear under several topics or none.
Know which of these matters to you.
Begin with a read-only assessment of your cloud environment. You keep the written findings either way.