Cloudflare D1 reaches GA
Cloudflare D1 (serverless SQLite at the edge) is now generally available with production SLAs. Per-row read/write pricing, free tier covers 5 GB and 5 million reads/day.
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Cloudflare D1 (serverless SQLite at the edge) is now generally available with production SLAs. Per-row read/write pricing, free tier covers 5 GB and 5 million reads/day.
Read announcementOVHcloud's Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) is now certified for the UK Government G-Cloud framework, joining its existing GDPR and ISO 27001 attestations. UK public-sector workloads can now be procured directly through the Digital Marketplace.
Huawei Cloud's end-to-end AI development platform is now available in eu-west-Frankfurt and eu-west-London regions. Includes AutoML, model training, and inference deployment.
AWS announces general availability of EC2 instances powered by Graviton4 processors. Up to 30% better compute performance and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3. New R8g, M8g, C8g instance families available in 14 regions.
Read announcementOracle Cloud Infrastructure's Generative AI service now offers Meta's Llama 3.3 70B as a hosted model alongside existing Cohere models. Available via REST API and the SDK.
Cloudflare's Zero Trust SASE platform (Access, Gateway, DLP) is now authorised at FedRAMP Moderate, opening it up to US federal agency customers.
Azure Active Directory authentication on VMs is now consistently branded as Microsoft Entra ID across docs and APIs. Existing API surface remains compatible — only the user-facing name has changed.
Google Cloud announces that the original Cloud Functions runtime (1st gen) is deprecated. New deployments must use 2nd gen, which is built on Cloud Run. Existing 1st gen functions continue to work until 2027-01-31.
Read announcementAlibaba Cloud's ARM-based g8y and c8y instance families (powered by Yitian 710 chips) are now available in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) and eu-west-1 (London).
IBM Watson Assistant can now use watsonx.ai foundation models for generative responses, alongside the existing intent-based dialogue flow. New action builder UI for orchestrating LLM calls.