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AWS released AWS Emulator on November 11, a local emulator of AWS APIs that AWS says agents wrote entirely; its docs list IAM, Region and fidelity limits.

The European Commission's preliminary view targets Amazon's and Microsoft's cloud arms, the first DMA designation made without meeting the law's quantitative thresholds.

GitHub is embedding permanent owner and repository IDs into Actions OIDC subject claims, with the new format becoming the default for repos created after July 15, 2026.

ClickHouse moved its NVMe-backed managed Postgres service to public beta at Open House 2026, pairing transactional Postgres with native CDC into ClickHouse. It stays free until metering starts June 15.

systemd 261-rc1 adds systemd-sysinstall, an IMDS subsystem, a storagectl tool, and PID1 support for the kernel's Live Update Orchestration and Kexec Handover.

Google and DDN unveiled a 10x throughput jump for Managed Lustre at Cloud Next 2026, adding a $0.06/GB-month Dynamic tier and showing 75% inference gains via KV-cache sharing.

A cooling system failure in a single Northern Virginia availability zone triggered a 20-hour AWS outage that physically damaged EC2 and EBS hardware and brought down core trading services at Coinbase.

Amazon Aurora Serverless platform version 4 scales 45% faster and delivers up to 30% better throughput at no extra cost, targeting agentic AI workloads.

Cloudflare detailed the custom infrastructure behind its Workers AI expansion to host models like Kimi K2.5, including a Rust-based inference engine and a lossless weight-compression system.

Nvidia receives a five-year option on 30 million IREN shares at $70 each while paying IREN $3.4 billion over five years for Blackwell cloud capacity at Childress, Texas.

Cloudflare's Gen 13 platform pairs AMD EPYC 9965 chips with FL2, a Rust rewrite of its NGINX-based proxy, doubling edge throughput while trading L3 cache for cores.

AWS launched OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents in limited preview on April 28, 2026, one day after Microsoft's seven-year exclusivity over OpenAI's IP was rewritten to a non-exclusive license through 2032.