Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Wednesday 30 September 2026
31 stories from 6 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types
AWS News Blog
Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 specification. You can create V3 tables or upgrade existing V2 tables to take advantage of V3 features like deletion vectors, row lineage, and new data types such as…
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Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches
AWS News Blog
Today, we’re announcing metadata pre-filtering for Amazon S3 Vectors , which delivers higher recall on filtered queries by evaluating your metadata filter before the similarity search. You can filter on attributes such as tenant, category…
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Gemini 4 Argon is here: It’s great, and you can’t have it yet
The New Stack
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 4 Argon , the company’s long-awaited flagship model, and it looks like it was worth the wait. Across most benchmarks, Gemini 4 Argon beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s top models, sometimes by a wide…
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Cohere’s faster query model barely dents retrieval quality in its tests
The New Stack
Cohere released Embed 5 on Wednesday , giving teams the option to index data with Embed 5 Pro and query those same vectors with the faster, cheaper Embed 5 Fast without creating a second index. The company recommends using Pro for indexing…
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CloudBees just committed to an AI-first pivot. Here’s why it matters for enterprise DevOps teams
The New Stack
When new CloudBees CEO Mo Plassnig took the job earlier this year , his board of directors handed him a mandate that left little room for interpretation: Do not stay the course. In an era when generative AI is radically reshaping how…
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
AWS News Blog
Today, we’re announcing a new capability for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that you can use to directly query operational data together with data stored in your data lake in Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet formats, using your existing…
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Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026
AWS News Blog
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program . AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These…
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Empower your agents with the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server
Google Cloud Blog
Today, we’re expanding our ecosystem of managed remote MCP servers by introducing the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server in preview. Powered by the popular gcloud and bq (BigQuery) command-line tools, this new server gives AI agents…
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How cybersecurity startups can win CISOs
Google Cloud Blog
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Alicja Cade and Nick Godfrey, senior directors, Office of the CISO, share their guidance for cybersecurity startups on how to win over the CISOs who will become…
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Spanner Omni, now GA: A distributed, multi-model database that you can deploy anywhere
Google Cloud Blog
Spanner Omni , the deploy-anywhere version of Spanner, is now generally available, ready to power your most demanding production workloads in your on-premises data center or on other clouds. With Spanner, Google pioneered the distributed…
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OpenAI’s Dots boundary problem rate doubled in longer tests
The New Stack
OpenAI’s new Dots are built to keep working after you step away. Launched at DevDay on Tuesday, the always-on agents run on their own cloud computers, use GPT-6 Astra , and connect to thousands of apps. A Dot can monitor connected systems…
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Responsible infrastructure at hyperscale: Managing the full lifecycle of Azure hardware
Azure Blog
Every new generation of cloud infrastructure creates two jobs. We must deploy more capable systems quickly, and we must manage the hardware they replace responsibly. Even though these jobs happen behind the scenes, the results matter to…
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Your AI agent aced the demo. Your data may still derail it.
The New Stack
Ahhh, demo AI agents. Don’t you just love them? Cute and cuddly, solving all your company’s problems without complaints, missteps, or even a stray hiccup. You’re feeling proud, accomplished, and ready to release your “baby” out to your…
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Microsoft Fabric is where AI agents learn how the business works
The New Stack
Microsoft is turning Fabric , its integrated data platform, into the place enterprise agents go to learn how a company works, whether that’s what happened last quarter or what’s happening on the factory floor right now. On Tuesday, at its…
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Kill the code review theater, keep the review
The New Stack
Six months ago I wrote about how to kill the code review , and I was wrong. I still think line-by-line review is on its way out. I got the replacement wrong. What I proposed The original essay proposed a “Swiss cheese“ model of AI code…
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Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation Trends in the AI Era
Google Cloud Blog
Written by: Robin Grunewald, Supriya Mazumdar, Kelli Vanderlee Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) examines vulnerability disclosure and exploitation statistics to evaluate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the…
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Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations
Cloudflare Blog
This week, Cloudflare's Impact programs will reach $100 million in donated services. It's a significant milestone, and one that we are proud of because it means that thousands of organizations, like journalism outlets, civil society, state…
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CRA readiness starts in the codebase
The New Stack
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is often discussed as a policy or reporting challenge. But for organizations that build products with digital elements, its practical impact will be felt much earlier and much closer to the code: in pull…
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Data Agent Kit is now GA: Bring Google Data Cloud to any coding agent
Google Cloud Blog
Today, Google Cloud Data Agent Kit is generally available. Data Agent Kit is a free set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools and agent skills that lets the coding agent you already use work directly with your Google Cloud data products…
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Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router
Cloudflare Blog
From our conversations with companies at every stage of their AI adoption journey, we've seen some common patterns. First, there is an exploration period as you bring on every new tool, dole out API keys freely, and let the tokens flow…
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Detect and send production issues straight to your agent
Cloudflare Blog
As agents help us build more complex applications, both humans and agents need a better way to stay on top of what goes wrong in production. Coding agents can already query observability data, navigate a repository, change code, write…
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Simplifying domains for people and agents
Cloudflare Blog
You just thought of your next great idea, and buying the right domain feels like the easiest way to make that first bit of progress. Naturally, you open a new tab in your browser, only to find yourself face-to-face with an experience that…
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Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402
Cloudflare Blog
Today, we’re making the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway available as part of a closed beta, and showcasing four customer use cases that are in production today. Since we announced the plan three months ago, we have been working closely…
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Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid
Cloudflare Blog
AI answer engines read a publisher’s page and hand the reader a summary, so the visit, and the revenue that would come with it, never happens. Most publishers will never sign a licensing deal with the companies that use their work in AI…
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Identify AI model overuse with User Insights
Cloudflare Blog
When we launched User Insights last month, we wanted to help teams answer a basic question: What are people actually doing with AI? User Insights gives teams a clearer view of their AI usage, showing which users, applications, tasks, and…
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Cloudflare Containers, rebuilt to scale agent sandboxes
Cloudflare Blog
Today, we’re making Cloudflare Containers more programmable and optimized for agent workloads. Agents don't deploy sandboxes ahead of time. They create sandboxes on demand, for each task, expect them to be ready immediately, and be able to…
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The Internet has a second audience
Cloudflare Blog
For most of its history, the Internet had one audience that paid the bills: people. We read the articles, saw the ads, and bought the subscriptions. Bots were always there, but they were mostly large, automated operations that didn't view…
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Networking for AI inference model serving - GKE only and for all other backends
Google Cloud Blog
Enterprises and individual developers frequently run multiple AI inference models. The right architecture can simplify how the models are called while also providing centralized governance. In this post, we'll look at two reference…
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Eclipse wants companies to be free to switch AI providers. Today, doing so can mean a costly rebuild.
The New Stack
If you rely too heavily on one AI provider , switching can mean rebuilding workloads and moving data while you face untangling integrations. A new vendor-neutral group aims to help organizations keep their options open. That’s the goal of…
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“Think of it as Kubernetes for agents”: OpenClaw lands in the enterprise with Nvidia and Red Hat on board
The New Stack
OpenClaw has come a long way since it emerged as a viral weekend project less than a year ago. Created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger in late 2025, the self-hosted AI agent exploded in popularity and by February — when OpenAI…
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OUSD is now the default stablecoin on Stripe
Stripe Engineering
Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin built for global money movement, is now available across Stripe. Businesses can use OUSD to manage funds, make payments, and offer new financial services.