Daily digest · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Azure Front Door HTTP DDoS ruleset, Grok Voice 3.0, Azure MCP Server 3.0
25 announcements · 7 GA · 2 previews · 3 deprecations · 4 Region expansions
Top highlights
- AzureFront Door WAF HTTP DDoS rulesetGA — Adaptive layer 7 protection with per-client baselines, two rules and WAF exceptions; two geo rules in preview (opens the original announcement)
- xAIGrok Voice 3.0 modelGA — Adds Speech to Speech at Grok Voice 2.0 pricing; grok-voice-latest alias now points to it (opens the original announcement)
- AzureAzure MCP Server 3.0 releaseGA — Adds Terraform, Backup, Resilience and Advisor tools and safer defaults; includes breaking changes (opens the original announcement)
AWS 11
Databases 3
- Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server Storage autoscaling now works on additional storage volumes, up to 256 TiB total capacity (opens the original announcement)
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports post-quantum TLS key exchange via ssl_groups parameter on versions 18 and higher (opens the original announcement)
- New region: DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in Canada (Central), Africa (Cape Town) (opens the original announcement)
Management, governance and cost 2
AI and machine learning 1
Analytics 1
Security, identity and compliance 1
Migration and transfer 1
Application integration 1
Regions, marketplace and partners 1
Google Cloud 5
AI and machine learning 1
Analytics 1
- Dataflow Streaming Engine autoscaling Adds latency tiers and recurring autoscaling schedules for tuning horizontal autoscaling (opens the original announcement)
Networking and content delivery 1
- VPC Service Controls PreviewAdds support for the App Optimize API integration (opens the original announcement)
Security, identity and compliance 1
Other announcements 1
- ABAP SDK for Google Cloud 1.15 GADownloads archived .msg and other binary files from Cloud Storage without character decoding (opens the original announcement)
Azure 3
Security, identity and compliance 1
Cloudflare 1
AI and machine learning 1
- Cloudflare Agents SDK Agent Skills DeprecationSkills are now files in the Workspace, loadable from R2 or code; removes some APIs (opens the original announcement)
Anthropic 1
AI and machine learning 1
- Usage and Cost Analytics API PreviewNew beta endpoints report token usage and cost; older Usage and Cost API becomes legacy but stays supported (opens the original announcement)
xAI 4
AI and machine learning 3
- grok-voice-2.0 DeprecationDeprecated; upgrade to grok-voice-3.0 or grok-voice-latest at the same price (opens the original announcement)
- grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 DeprecationReaches end of life on October 2, 2026; requests route to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0 at same price (opens the original announcement)
- xAI custom moderation controls Guidelines array on text API requests sets handling of nsfw, violence and profanity content (opens the original announcement)
From 25 announcements in the release notes and changelogs of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare, Anthropic and xAI.