Daily digest · Thursday, November 5, 2026
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video 30% cheaper, DynamoDB bulk put, Workers AI retirements
40 announcements · 8 GA · 2 previews · 2 deprecations · 3 Region expansions
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, with 30% lower video pricing
Google Gemini API · Gemini API · AI and machine learning
Video up to 15 seconds, output price 30% lower at $12.00 per 1M tokens
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Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk put itemsGA
AWS · Amazon DynamoDB · Databases
Writes S3 files into existing tables with per-item condition expressions; Standard and Accelerated tiers
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Workers AI - Planned model deprecations on Workers AIDeprecation
Cloudflare · Workers AI · AI and machine learning
24 LLM, image, speech and embedding models retire November 15, 2026
Due Nov 15, 2026
Video summary 1:07
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Workers AI - Planned model deprecations on Workers AIDeprecation
Cloudflare · Workers AI · AI and machine learning
Multiple LLM, image, speech and embedding models retire November 15, 2026
Due Nov 15, 2026 - Open the original announcement from Google Cloud (opens a new tab)
Security Command Center DSPM deprecated, shutdown on February 1, 2027Deprecation
Google Cloud · Security Command Center · Security, identity and compliance
Closed to new organizations; existing users keep access until February 1, 2027 shutdown
Due Feb 1, 2027
AWS17
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AWS Lambda durable functions increases default execution and API quotas
AWS · AWS Lambda · Serverless
Default quotas raised, including running executions from 1 million to 5 million per account
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Amazon FSx for Lustre delivers 16x higher metadata IOPS on Intelligent-Tiering file systems
AWS · Amazon FSx for Lustre · Storage
Intelligent-Tiering file systems support up to 192,000 metadata IOPS, up from 12,000
Security, identity and compliance 5
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AWS Security Hub now provides an SBOM inventory for your compute resources
AWS · AWS Security Hub · Security, identity and compliance
SBOM inventory lists packages across EC2, ECR and Lambda using Inspector SBOMs
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Amazon Cognito announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement for the Plus feature plan
AWS · Amazon Cognito · Security, identity and compliance
SLA for Plus feature plan user pools rises from 99.9% to 99.99% uptime from November 1, 2026
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IAM Roles Anywhere now supports automatic certificate revocation checking
AWS · AWS IAM · Security, identity and compliance
Automatic certificate revocation checking using CRL distribution points, no manual CRL re-import
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AWS WAF AI traffic monetization now supports fiat payouts through Stripe
AWS · AWS WAF · Amazon CloudFront · Security, identity and compliance
Stripe added as payout method, settling AI bot payments in local currency
New region: Security Hub Network Scanning in AWS GovCloud (US)
AI and machine learning 2
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Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreGA
AWS · Amazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
Managed tool returns a synthesized, cited answer from web sources in one call
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Amazon SageMaker AI Studio Now Supports IAM Identity Center Multi-Region Replication
AWS · Amazon SageMaker Studio · AI and machine learning
Supports IAM Identity Center multi-region replication for domains outside the primary IdC region
Databases 2
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Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk put itemsGA
AWS · Amazon DynamoDB · Databases
Writes data from Amazon S3 into existing tables, with per-item condition expressions
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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Kerberos authentication with self-managed Active Directory
AWS · Amazon RDS for Oracle · Databases
Kerberos authentication works with self-managed Active Directory without AWS Managed Microsoft AD or trust
Analytics 2
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Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized engine now supports agent traces
AWS · Amazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
Adds agent traces and OpenTelemetry traces alongside logs, with update, delete and upsert on hot-tier data
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Amazon MWAA now supports cost allocation tags
AWS · Amazon MWAA · Analytics
Environment tags propagate to workers, schedulers and web servers for tracking in Cost Explorer and CUR
Networking and content delivery 2
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AWS Interconnect - last mile announces new metro in Northern Virginia, USA
AWS · AWS Direct Connect · Networking and content delivery
New Northern Virginia metro joins New York; Lumen connections generally available, Megaport and Equinix in preview
New region: Network Load Balancer in Phoenix Local Zone
Management, governance and cost 2
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AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now allows organization and validation with built-in data types
AWS · AWS Systems Manager · Management, governance and cost
13 new data types validate parameter values on create or update
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Amazon Q Developer in console is now the AWS assistant
AWS · AWS Management Console · Management, governance and cost
Amazon Q Developer in the console and Console Mobile Apps is renamed, same guidance and actions
Google Cloud15
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Compute Engine C4 sole-tenant nodes on Intel Granite Rapids generally availableGA
Google Cloud · Compute Engine · Compute and containers
Intel Granite Rapids nodes in five types, including local SSD variants
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Cloud Run ephemeral disk is generally availableGA
Google Cloud · Cloud Run · Serverless
Mounts a volume that persists only for the life of an instance
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Bigtable conversational analytics and QueryData tool in PreviewPreview
Google Cloud · Bigtable · Databases
Natural language queries on operational data, plus QueryData tool for building data agents
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Cloud Asset Inventory supports Cloud Scheduler Job resource type in its APIs
Google Cloud · Cloud Asset Inventory
Cloud Scheduler Job resource type supported in its APIs
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Apigee Edge for Public Cloud control plane maintenance on November 6, 2026
Google Cloud · Apigee Edge for Public Cloud · Application integration
Control plane maintenance Nov 6, 9:00-10:00 PM PT; management services return 4xx, runtime calls unaffected
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Google Cloud CCaaS 6.32 prerelease notes published
Google Cloud · Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service · Business applications and end-user computing
Prerelease notes published for the expected next version
Security, identity and compliance 4
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Google SecOps adds custom tags for Case Wall activities, with tag filtering
Google Cloud · Google SecOps · Security, identity and compliance
Custom tags on Case Wall activities, comments, tasks and actions, with tag filtering
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Model Armor adds CSAM filter toggle and configurable confidence levels
Google Cloud · Model Armor · Security, identity and compliance
CSAM filter can be toggled in templates and floor settings; adds configurable confidence levels
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API Gateway withdraws deprecation of negative backend deadlines in OpenAPI 2.0
Google Cloud · API Gateway · Security, identity and compliance
Deprecation of negative backend deadlines withdrawn; OpenAPI 2.0 treats them as default deadline
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Google SecOps Cases Playbooks tab shows case and alert playbooks together
Google Cloud · Google SecOps · Security, identity and compliance
Shows case-level and alert-level playbooks together in a single tab
AI and machine learning 2
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, with video upscaling up to 4KGA
Google Cloud · Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform · AI and machine learning
Omni-modal model generates video up to 15 seconds, adds upscaling to 4K
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AlphaGenome adds unified gRPC and HTTP streaming, keeps alphagenome-003
Google Cloud · Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform · AI and machine learning
Adds unified gRPC and HTTP streaming across seven DnaModelService methods; alphagenome-003 stays in Model Garden
Analytics 2
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Data Studio blends add Union merge operator for up to five tables
Google Cloud · Data Studio
Union merge operator appends rows across up to five tables and removes duplicates
New region: BigQuery conversational analytics in asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)
Azure2
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Generally Available: Azure Front Door TLS key exchange policy with post-quantum supportGA
Azure · Azure Front Door · Networking and content delivery
Configurable key exchange policies add hybrid post-quantum groups; TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 can be disabled
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Generally Available: WAF Insights for Azure Application GatewayGA
Azure · Application Gateway · Web Application Firewall · Networking and content delivery
Dashboards combine WAF logs and metrics to investigate blocked requests without queries
Cloudflare3
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Durable Objects, Workers - Automatic retries for Durable Object calls
Cloudflare · Durable Objects · Workers · Compute and containers
Runtime retries fetch() and RPC calls up to four times on retryable errors
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DNS - Cloudflare Services for Private Origins is generally availableGA
Cloudflare · DNS · Networking and content delivery
Proxies public hostnames to private network origins over WAN, Tunnel, or Mesh
OpenAI1
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GPT-6-Cyber added to OpenAI API for vulnerability investigation and fix verification
OpenAI · OpenAI API · AI and machine learning
Model for investigating vulnerabilities, reproducing them in authorized test environments and verifying fixes
Anthropic1
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Claude Console IP allowlist in beta, and Admin API endpoint to sign members outPreview
Anthropic · Claude Platform · AI and machine learning
Refuses requests from unlisted IPv4/IPv6 addresses or CIDR ranges, up to 1,000 per organization; new Admin API sign-out…
Google Gemini API1
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, with 30% lower video pricing
Google Gemini API · Gemini API · AI and machine learning
Accepts PPT, ODP and ODS files; function responses take audio, video, Office files and file URIs
From 40 announcements in the release notes and changelogs of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini API.