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Cloud ChangelogDaily digest · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
AWS Emulator for local testing, Gemini Decision API, BigQuery project caps
41 announcements · 13 GA · 7 previews · 2 Region expansions
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AWS · AWS Command Line Interface · Developer tools, web and mobile
Runs SDK and CLI calls locally or in CI with no AWS account; unsupported operations return 501; no service fee
Google Gemini API · Gemini API · AI and machine learning
gemini-decision-1 returns calibrated binary, categorical and rubric decisions across text, images, audio, video and PDFs with zero output…
Google Cloud · BigQuery · Analytics
Caps limit slots and concurrency per project; assignments route by user, service account or third-party identity; Enterprise and Enterprise…
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AWS · Amazon EKS · Compute and containers
24 GB etcd database, up from 16 GB, on 4XL and 8XL tiers
AWS · AWS Lambda · Serverless
Adds x86 CPU architecture alongside Arm (AWS Graviton) for MicroVM images
AWS · AWS Cloud WAN · Amazon VPC · Networking and content delivery
Central flow logs for traffic across core network, publishable to CloudWatch Logs, S3 or Firehose
AWS · AWS Command Line Interface · Developer tools, web and mobile
Runs AWS SDK and CLI calls locally or in CI, with no AWS account required
Security, identity and compliance 3
AWS · Amazon Cognito · Security, identity and compliance
User pool session management lists and revokes SSO and token sessions, with configurable SSO duration
AWS · Amazon EKS · Security, identity and compliance
Supports applying EC2 security groups to individual Pods, on Kubernetes 1.36 or later
New region: Network Security Manager in European Sovereign Cloud and 31 more Regions
AI and machine learning 2
AWS · Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
Open-source agentic coding models from DeepReinforce AI, MIT license, added to JumpStart
AWS · Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
V4-Pro, V4-Flash and V4.1-Flash open-weight MoE models with 1M-token context added
Business applications and end-user computing 2
AWS · Amazon SES · Business applications and end-user computing
Higher limits for email identities, tenants and configuration sets, adjustable in Service Quotas, plus search by name…
New region: Quick desktop and mobile apps in Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Google Cloud22
Google Cloud · API Gateway · Security, identity and compliance
TLS 1.3 enabled on connections to backends that support it
Google Cloud · Apigee Edge for Public Cloud · Application integration
Edge UI updates begin rolling out
Google Cloud · Google Cloud Contact Center as a Service · Business applications and end-user computing
Prerelease notes published for the expected next version
Compute and containers 5
Google Cloud · Google Kubernetes Engine · Compute and containers
Active and standby buffers pre-provision compute capacity on Standard and Autopilot 1.37.1-gke.3020000+
Google Cloud · Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal · Compute and containers
Version 1.34.1100-gke.125 released, running on Kubernetes v1.34.12-gke.500
Google Cloud · Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for bare metal · Compute and containers
1.34.1100-gke.125 removes distrusted eMudhra and AAA root CAs and rejects compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs
Google Cloud · Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware · Compute and containers
New version runs on Kubernetes v1.34.12-gke.500
Google Cloud · Google Distributed Cloud (software only) for VMware · Compute and containers
Removes distrusted eMudhra (emSign) and AAA root CAs, rejects compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs
Management, governance and cost 5
Google Cloud · Cloud Billing · Management, governance and cost
Generates high-level cost estimates for AI agents from reference architectures in the Billing console
Google Cloud · Cloud Logging
VM Extension Manager policies at folder and organization levels, plus read-only extension status APIs
Google Cloud · Cloud Monitoring · Management, governance and cost
VM Extension Manager policies at folder and organization levels, plus read-only extension status APIs
Google Cloud · Service Health
Resource-level impact for supported products through the v1beta API and gcloud beta CLI
Google Cloud · Cloud Asset Inventory
Supports cloudkms.googleapis.com/KajPolicyConfig resource type in ExportAssets, ListAssets and other APIs
AI and machine learning 4
Google Cloud · Gemini Enterprise · AI and machine learning
Available in Gemini Enterprise web app, mobile app, Workflow Builder and AI developer tools
CodeMender supports Gemini 4 Carbon in Preview; Agent Gateway for cross-cloud in Limited PreviewPreview
Google Cloud · Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform · AI and machine learning
Governs agents on CNCF-conformant Kubernetes clusters outside Google Cloud; free during Limited Preview
Google Cloud · Agent Platform Workbench · AI and machine learning
Terminal AI agent for notebooks on Workbench instances with Debian 12 image or later
Google Cloud · Colab Enterprise
Python 3.13 is the latest version; existing runtimes keep their current Python version
Databases 3
Google Cloud · Oracle Database@Google Cloud · Databases
Identity Connector is optional on Exadata and Exascale VM Clusters
Google Cloud · Spanner · Databases
Filter data by session context parameters passed with queries to isolate tenant data
Google Cloud · AlloyDB for PostgreSQL · Databases
Identifies active queries holding locks and the queries they block, so root blockers can be terminated
Analytics 2
Google Cloud · BigQuery · Analytics
Project caps limit slots and concurrency per project; reservation assignments can route by principal identity
Google Cloud · Managed Service for Apache Spark
Runtime 4.0 with Spark 4.2.0, Java 25 and Python 3.13; batches default to premium tier
Azure1
Azure · Azure Front Door · Web Application Firewall · Networking and content delivery
Rate limit rules can group requests by JA4 fingerprint, AS number, country/region or none
Cloudflare6
Cloudflare · Durable Objects · Compute and containers
Forwarding lookups return the destination directly, cutting round trips and p99 connection latency for relocated…
Cloudflare · Workers · Cloudflare CLI · Serverless
Serve static assets from a URL prefix like /blog/ using assets.base_path, without nesting files
Cloudflare · Hyperdrive · Databases
Workers Paid limit rises to 100 configurations and 1,500 origin connections each
Cloudflare · Realtime · Media, games and IoT
Cloudflare-hosted shared whiteboard for meetings, with persistent boards and auth-token access checks
Security, identity and compliance 2
Cloudflare · Access · Cloudflare One · Security, identity and compliance
Leaked tokens stay disabled until the secret is rotated; rotation discards the old secret immediately
Cloudflare · API Shield · Security, identity and compliance
Metric views for traffic, errors, latency, response size and security, with server-side sorting
Google Gemini API1
Google Gemini API · Gemini API · AI and machine learning
Decisions API returns calibrated binary, categorical and rubric decisions across text, images, audio, video, PDFs with…
From 41 announcements in the release notes and changelogs of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare and Google Gemini API.