Cloud and AI news, Nov 10: Google Gemini 4 Carbon model

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Gemini 4 Carbon is now generally available in the Gemini API, with introductory pricing through November 30. Plus Model Armor images, GKE Gateway routing, Front Door edge actions and OpenSearch Region recovery, in Tuesday's cloud updates.

It costs 2 dollars per million input tokens and 10 dollars per million output tokens, with a limit of 1,048,576 tokens.

Over at Google Cloud, Model Armor can now screen images embedded in PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, priced by image tokens.

Google Kubernetes Engine Gateway now routes TLS passthrough traffic by SNI, and Agent Substrate brings support for AI agents.

From Azure, Front Door edge actions run lightweight JavaScript functions during request and response processing on Hyperlight micro-VMs.

Over at AWS, Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers managed cross-Region disaster recovery with recovery point under one minute, on version 3.7 or later.

So, that's Tuesday. Three of these five stories were about AI on Google's platform, from the model itself to the tools that protect and run it.

Follow for tomorrow's updates. The full list is at cloud changelog dot com.