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Cloud ChangelogDaily digest · Monday, November 2, 2026
Defender for IoT OT retirement, Azure Fluid Relay retirement, Lambda Kafka queue mode
43 announcements · 12 GA · 12 previews · 1 price change · 3 deprecations · 3 Region expansions
Top highlights
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Retirement: OT security in Microsoft Defender for IoTDeprecation
Azure
OT security component fully deprecated October 2029 after three-year transition; Armis, Dragos, Forescout connectors offered as…
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AWS Lambda now supports queues for Apache Kafka in self-managed Kafka event sources
AWS
Share groups let pollers scale beyond partition count, up to 10 concurrent invocations each, no ordering
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Retirement: Azure Fluid RelayDeprecation
Azure · Azure Fluid Relay · Developer tools, web and mobile
Service ends February 2, 2027; self-hosted Fluid service is the replacement
Due Feb 2, 2027
Action needed 3
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Retirement: Azure Fluid RelayDeprecation
Azure · Azure Fluid Relay · Developer tools, web and mobile
Retires February 2, 2027; self-hosted Fluid service is the replacement
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Retirement: OT security in Microsoft Defender for IoTDeprecation
Azure
OT security component to be fully deprecated in October 2029 after three-year transition
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Workers will use the new module registry by default on November 17Deprecation
Cloudflare · Workers · Serverless
New registry becomes default for JavaScript Workers with compatibility date 2026-11-17 or later
AWS12
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AWS Lambda now supports queues for Apache Kafka in self-managed Kafka event sources
AWS
Queue mode scales processing beyond partition count using Kafka share groups, up to 10 concurrent invocations per…
Open the original announcement from AWS (opens a new tab)EC2 Amazon Machine Images can now be scanned for vulnerabilities through Amazon InspectorGA
AWS · Amazon Inspector · AWS Security HUB · Security, identity and compliance
Scans EC2 AMIs for vulnerabilities without launching instances or installing software
Open the original announcement from AWS (opens a new tab)Amazon CloudFront now supports self-service increases in AWS Service Quotas
AWS · Amazon CloudFront · Management, governance and cost
Self-service increases for 28 quotas, auto-approved within thresholds with Business Support or higher
AI and machine learning 3
Open the original announcement from AWS (opens a new tab)Announcing an updated text detection model for Amazon Textract
AWS · Amazon Textract
Updated text detection model covers 40+ languages and improves multilingual table extraction
New regions: Claude Haiku 5.5 in Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US), Textract in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Zurich)
Databases 3
Open the original announcement from AWS (opens a new tab)Amazon RDS now supports per snapshot billing
AWS · Amazon RDS · Databases
Shows cost of each individual snapshot, using cost allocation tags, at no additional charge
Open the original announcement from AWS (opens a new tab)Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.46) is generally availableGA
AWS · Amazon Aurora · Databases
Supports MySQL 8.0.46 and adds post-quantum TLS key exchange
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Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.10 is now generally availableGA
AWS · Amazon Aurora · Databases
Supports MySQL 8.4.10, GTID tags and up to 50,000 simultaneous connections per instance
Business applications and end-user computing 3
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Amazon Quick on desktop now uses your organization's existing Amazon Quick sign-in
AWS · Business applications and end-user computing
Desktop app reuses the organization's Quick web sign-in, with no separate OIDC app registration
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Amazon Connect Customer now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools in flows
AWS · Business applications and end-user computing
Flows can invoke MCP tools through a new External Tool block
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Amazon Connect Customer now supports Cases and External Tool events in the Wait block
AWS
Wait block supports Cases field conditions and External Tool completion events
Google Cloud14
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Backup and DR auto-protection for Compute Engine instances and disks is GAGA
Google Cloud · Backup and DR · Storage
Label-based auto-protection assigns backup plans to Compute Engine instances and disks across projects
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Oracle Database@Google Cloud supports custom DNS domains for ODB Networks, GAGA
Google Cloud · Oracle Database@Google Cloud · Databases
Custom DNS domains for ODB Networks, usable only with Exadata VM clusters
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Cloud Load Balancing adds Cloud Trace tracing in Preview, mTLS validation relaxations GAPreview
Google Cloud · Cloud Load Balancing · Networking and content delivery
Cloud Trace distributed tracing added for Application Load Balancers; mTLS validation relaxations generally available
New region: Datastream in Johannesburg and Bangkok
Serverless 4
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App Engine flexible environment supports Python 3.15 runtime in PreviewPreview
Google Cloud · App Engine flexible environment Python · Serverless
Python 3.15 runtime support
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App Engine standard environment supports Python 3.15 runtime in PreviewPreview
Google Cloud · App Engine standard environment Python · Serverless
Python 3.15 runtime support
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Cloud Run supports Python 3.15 runtime in PreviewPreview
Google Cloud · Cloud Run · Serverless
Python 3.15 runtime support
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Cloud Run functions supports Python 3.15 runtime in PreviewPreview
Google Cloud · Cloud Run functions · Serverless
Python 3.15 runtime support
Analytics 2
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BigQuery adds data agent monitoring in Cloud Observability, generally availableGA
Google Cloud · BigQuery · Analytics
Monitoring of data agent performance, adoption, latency and costs in Cloud Observability
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Knowledge Studio in Knowledge Catalog in Preview, with context sets for AI agentsPreview
Google Cloud · Knowledge Catalog
Natural language data exploration, enrichment tasks and context sets to ground AI agents via MCP
Security, identity and compliance 2
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Cloud NGFW Enterprise adds Advanced malware sandbox (WildFire), now generally availableGA
Google Cloud · Cloud NGFW
Advanced malware sandbox (WildFire) inspects file transfers and blocks zero-day malware
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Model Armor template exclusion rules for streaming sanitization in PreviewPreview
Google Cloud · Model Armor · Security, identity and compliance
Template exclusion rules for streaming sanitization reduce false positives in prompt injection and jailbreak…
Application integration 2
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Apigee X updated version released, rollout takes four or more business days
Google Cloud · Apigee X · Application integration
Updated version released; rollout takes four or more business days across zones
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Apigee X adds EKM health monitoring and alerts through Cloud Logging
Google Cloud · Apigee X · Application integration
EKM health monitoring and alerts available through Cloud Logging
Azure11
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Azure · Azure Blob Storage · Azure Data Lake Storage · Storage
Adds automatic task definition updates, stopping in-progress runs, and case-sensitive string operators
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Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery for Azure LocalGA
Azure · Azure Arc · Azure Site Recovery · Management, governance and cost
Replicates Windows and Linux VMs to Azure for failover and failback
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Public Preview: On-prem NAS share discovery and assessment are now available using Azure MigratePreview
Azure · Azure Migrate · Management, governance and cost
Discovers and assesses Dell PowerScale and NetApp ONTAP shares for migration to Azure
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Generally Available: Geo-Replication on partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus PremiumGA
Azure · Service Bus · Application integration
Geo-Replication now works on partitioned namespaces, replicating messages and metadata to a secondary region
Networking and content delivery 3
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Public Preview: JWT validation for Application Gateway for ContainersPreview
Azure · Application Gateway · Networking and content delivery
Validates JSON Web Tokens centrally through the AuthPolicy custom resource
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Public Preview: MCP gateway for Application Gateway for ContainersPreview
Azure · Application Gateway · Networking and content delivery
Routes Model Context Protocol traffic through the MCPRoute resource, with aggregation of multiple servers
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Public Preview: Private ingress for Application Gateway for ContainersPreview
Azure · Application Gateway · Networking and content delivery
Private frontends reachable only through approved Azure Private Link private endpoints
Databases 2
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Azure · Azure Database for PostgreSQL · Databases
VNet-integrated servers can switch to a private endpoint-capable network configuration
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Generally Available: Restart databases in Azure SQL DB via the Azure portalGA
Azure · Azure SQL Database · Databases
Restart or fail over databases from the Azure portal, including Hyperscale and elastic pools
Cloudflare5
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Workers - Request.signal will be enabled by default in Workers on November 17
Cloudflare · Workers · Serverless
Client disconnection events enabled by default for compatibility date 2026-11-17 or later
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AI Search billing postponed to December 1, 2026, and default sync interval is now 24 hoursPrice
Cloudflare · AI Search · AI and machine learning
Billing postponed to December 1, 2026; default sync interval changes from 6 to 24 hours
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Cloudflare One, Access - Organize and authorize Access service tokens with tags
Cloudflare · Cloudflare One · Access · Security, identity and compliance
Key-value tags, up to five per token, for organizing tokens and authorizing access
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Flagship - Evaluate Flagship flags locally
Cloudflare · Flagship · Developer tools, web and mobile
Bindings evaluate flags against a local flag store during local development
Anthropic1
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Message threads in beta on the Messages API, sending only new messagesPreview
Anthropic · Claude Platform · AI and machine learning
Conversation kept server-side so later requests send only new messages; threads expire 5 minutes after last request
From 43 announcements in the release notes and changelogs of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare and Anthropic.