Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Thursday 29 October 2026
15 stories from 4 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Sam Altman almost scrapped token pricing. Here’s why he backed off.
The New Stack
OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model , letting developers submit a prompt and receive a price for the work, before negative customer feedback convinced the company to back away from the idea, CEO Sam Altman…
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AWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes
The New Stack
Earlier this month, the team behind Hydro developed a new way to check that a distributed system still works correctly when it resends messages after a failure. This produced what Shadaj Laddad described to me as “like a 5000 line PR.”…
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Microsoft’s new Copilot harness makes agents easy — until you want to switch
The New Stack
Microsoft is opening up the GitHub Copilot agent harness to outside developers through Microsoft Foundry, bringing the same orchestration infrastructure used across its Copilot products into a managed service for building and deploying…
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Querying Databricks Apache Iceberg Tables with the borderless Lakehouse
Google Cloud Blog
Enterprise organizations often leverage multiple data platforms, including Databricks, to execute heavy Apache Spark jobs alongside BigQuery to power highly concurrent analytics workloads. Historically, bridging these systems often meant…
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Azure Cloud HSM Hardware Audit Logging: Verifiable audit trails for security and compliance
Azure Blog
Organizations running regulated and security-sensitive workloads need trusted evidence of which authenticated users performed management operations on their hardware security modules (HSMs), what actions they took, and when. Today, we are…
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: Introducing new $250,000 tier for Google Cloud VRP (Q＆A)
Google Cloud Blog
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Chris Betz talks with Michael Cote, our vulnerability rewards program lead, about the new tier of our Cloud VRP program and the current state of vulnerability rewards…
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Grounding agents in one context graph connecting semantic models you already trust
Google Cloud Blog
Picture the scene: Before an executive business review, your VP of Sales asks an AI assistant, "What was net revenue for our top enterprise accounts last quarter?" In seconds, the agent returns a polished chart! Unfortunately, the numbers…
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Why MCP servers should tell agents what to do next
The New Stack
Many MCP servers do just one thing. An agent asks for data and the server hands it back. AWS’s James Ward thinks that leaves a lot on the table. The protocol works best, he told me, when the server acts less like a database and more like…
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Mistral’s Large 4 open weights arrive with a 1-point coding lead over GLM-5.3: “There’s nothing you can’t do with this model that you can do with competitors.”
The New Stack
On Thursday, Mistral released the weights for its frontier open model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), on Hugging Face. Made available for preview just three weeks ago, the French AI company says ML4 has significantly improved since then, thanks to…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk for regulated workloads: Built for the next decade, not just the first deploy
The New Stack
For more than a decade, the managed application platform industry has optimized around a compelling promise: get code running as quickly as possible. Five-minute deployments. Git-based workflows. Minimal configuration. Infrastructure…
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“I don’t think the world needs a new GitHub”: What GitHub’s leaders really think about their new rivals
The New Stack
At its annual Universe ’26 conference in San Francisco this week, GitHub took to the question of the platform’s stability head-on. The code-hosting company spent a significant part of the event’s keynote to talk about the investments it is…
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Why Kubernetes platforms keep rebuilding a layer they could share
The New Stack
Ask a platform team what they built last year, and the list likely includes a Kubernetes controller that creates a few objects in order and copies fields between them. No business logic, just wiring. A Deployment, a Service in front of it…
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Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2026 Q3: More swarms, fewer giants
Cloudflare Blog
Welcome to the 26th edition of Cloudflare's DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers the third quarter of 2026 — July, August, and September — and returns the series to its quarterly cadence following the combined H1 2026 volume. The…
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The 5 essential layers of AI agent sandboxing on Kubernetes
The New Stack
An AI agent given autonomy to run code will inevitably run code no human has reviewed. It may install model-selected packages, run scripts generated moments earlier, and iterate until a developer’s test passes; that risk is limited to a…
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“Urgency is an inherently subjective call”: Anthropic tells TNS how it grades Claude Duet
The New Stack
Anthropic built Claude Duet , an AI assistant that monitors your connected apps and works on tasks in the background, to decide what needs your attention without being asked. A week after its October 21 debut, the frontier lab with an IPO…