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AWS Lambda Can Now Answer HTTP Directly With Web Functions
AWS has added Lambda Web Functions, where your code runs its own HTTP server and one warm environment serves several requests at once. Only Node.js is supported for now, in five Regions, and existing functions are being renamed Event Functions.
Read updateCloudflare Workers on Your Own Servers, With Deno's Help
The Deno team, led by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, is joining Cloudflare to make workerd, the open source Workers runtime, a supported way to run Workers and Durable Objects on your own servers. Deno Deploy users have six months to move.
Read updatePlanning a DigitalOcean Database? Read This Before Oct 15
From October 15, new DigitalOcean accounts can no longer create Standard Edition PostgreSQL or MySQL clusters above 4 GiB of RAM or with standby nodes, and from November 30 the same applies to every account. Existing clusters keep everything.
Read updateHetzner Adds CPX02, a 1 GB Cloud Server for Small Sites
Hetzner added the CPX02 on October 6, a Regular Performance cloud server with 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of NVMe for static sites, blogs and small single apps. On October 12 it was listed as currently unavailable, like the rest of the CPX line.
Read updateOn July 30 AWS Quietly Trims a Dozen Services and Walking Back Its Own AI Bets Is the Real Story
On June 30, 2026, AWS closed roughly a dozen services to new customers effective July 30, and the list is mostly its own first-generation AI and search products: Kendra, Q Business, and Bedrock Agents, now renamed Classic. But retire means three different things in this announcement, maintenance mode where existing customers keep running fully supported, sunset with a real end-of-support date, and already ended. This sorts every service into its bucket, explains why the AI cull is a consolidation onto Bedrock rather than a retreat, and covers the two migrations that need actual work: WorkSpaces PCoIP to DCV by October 2027, and Kendra to Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
Read updateThe Node.js 20 Lambda Deadline Everyone Is Citing Is Wrong and the Real Risk Already Started
The AWS Lambda Node.js 20 deadline everyone is citing, August 31 and September 30, 2026, is out of date. AWS moved the block-create date to February 1, 2027 and block-update to March 3, 2027. But the number that matters is April 30, 2026, when the Node.js 20 runtime stopped getting language security patches. This covers what each date really means, the OS-versus-runtime patching nuance most guides miss, a one-command way to find every affected function, and the safe migration to nodejs22.x or nodejs24.x.
Read updateAzure Returns 410 Gone for GPT-4o on October 1 and Auto-Upgrade Skips the Deployments That Matter
On October 1, 2026, Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry retires the GA gpt-4o (2024-11-20) and gpt-4o-mini (2024-07-18) versions, after which calls to a retired deployment return HTTP 410 Gone. Standard-family deployments are auto-upgraded region by region, but Provisioned (PTU) deployments and anything set to NoAutoUpgrade are not, and Microsoft says the date is not extendable.
Read updateStay on EKS 1.33 and AWS Starts Billing You 6x From August
Amazon EKS Kubernetes 1.33 leaves standard support on July 29, 2026, and any cluster still on it is enrolled in extended support by default at six times the standard control-plane rate. The hourly charge rises from 0.10 to 0.60 US dollars per cluster, and the standard patch cadence narrows. Fleets with many clusters feel it first.
Read updateHetzner More Than Doubled Some Cloud Prices Today And What To Do About It
On June 15, 2026, Hetzner repriced its cloud servers, and the dedicated and AMD shared vCPU lines (CCX, CPX) jumped 113 to 175 percent while the ARM and Intel-shared lines rose about 30 percent. Existing instances are protected, but a rescale reprices you. Here is exactly what changed and what to do.
Read updateYou Can Now Run 200B AI Models On A Desktop Without The Cloud
AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 puts up to 128GB of unified memory in a small desktop, enough to run a 235-billion-parameter model with no cloud. Here is what is real, what is overstated, and when it actually fits your stack.
Read updateAWS Shuts Down App Mesh for Good on September 30 and Your Service Mesh Goes With It
AWS ends all support for App Mesh on September 30, 2026, after which the console and every App Mesh resource go dark and the Envoy data plane is no longer managed. New onboarding has been blocked since September 24, 2024. For ECS, AWS points to Service Connect; EKS teams have their own path.
Read updateRDS MySQL 8.0 Leaves Standard Support in July and AWS Auto-Enrolls You Into a Paid Bill
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of standard support on July 31, 2026. The next day, AWS automatically enrolls any instance still on 8.0 into paid Extended Support, billed per vCPU-hour, unless you set the disabled lifecycle flag at creation or restore. The fix is an in-place upgrade to MySQL 8.4 before the date.
Read updateRailway 8-Hour Outage: GCP Auto-Suspended Their Account
Google Cloud auto-suspended Railway's production account on May 19, 2026, taking the platform offline for 8 hours. The cross-cloud dependency lesson, in detail.
Read updateAmazon OpenSearch Service Expands Graviton4 Support
AWS expanded Amazon OpenSearch Service support for Graviton4-based c8g, m8g, r8g, and r8gd instances in more regions during February 2026.
Read updateTerraform 1.8 Released with Provider Functions
HashiCorp releases Terraform 1.8 with provider-defined functions, improved refactoring support, and better state management capabilities.
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