InfoQ Homepage Cloud Content on InfoQ
-
Cloudflare Outlines MCP Architecture as Enterprises Confront Security and Governance Risks
Cloudflare has outlined a reference architecture for scaling Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments across the enterprise, positioning centralized governance, remote server infrastructure, and cost controls as key requirements for production-ready agent systems.
-
AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl across Enterprises
AWS released Agent Registry in preview as part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing a centralized catalog for discovering, governing, and reusing AI agents, tools, and MCP servers across organizations. The registry indexes agents regardless of where they run and supports both MCP and A2A protocols natively. Microsoft, Google Cloud, and the ACP Registry offer competing solutions.
-
AWS Introduces S3 Files, Bringing File System Access to S3 Buckets
AWS recently introduced S3 Files, which lets users mount an Amazon S3 bucket and access its data through a standard file system interface. Applications can read and write files using standard file operations, while the system automatically translates them into S3 requests, allowing compute services to work directly with data stored in S3.
-
AWS Launches Sustainability Console with API Access and Scope 1-3 Emissions Reporting
AWS launched a standalone Sustainability console with API access, configurable CSV exports, and Scope 1-3 emissions data by service and Region. The console decouples emissions reporting from billing permissions. AWS CTO Werner Vogels framed carbon as an architectural metric belonging alongside latency, cost, and error rates in the observability stack.
-
Cloudflare Launches Dynamic Workers Open Beta: Isolate-Based Sandboxing for AI Agent Code Execution
Cloudflare has released Dynamic Worker Loader into open beta, offering V8 isolate-based sandboxing for AI-generated code execution. The company claims isolates start in milliseconds, using megabytes of memory, making them roughly 100x faster and up to 100x more memory-efficient than containers. The feature builds on Cloudflare's Code Mode approach.
-
Microsoft Launches Azure Copilot Migration Agent to Accelerate Cloud Migration Planning
Microsoft has launched the Azure Copilot Migration Agent, an AI assistant built into the Azure portal that automates migration planning, agentless VMware discovery, and landing zone creation. Despite being billed as generally available, the agent is in public preview and cannot execute migrations. Replication and cutover remain manual tasks in Azure Migrate.
-
"Pick and Mix" Custom Regions: Cloudflare Introduces Fine-Grained Data Residency Control
Cloudflare recently introduced Custom Regions, an expansion of its Regional Services that lets customers precisely define where their data is processed. By selecting specific groups of data centers by country or region, customers can ensure that TLS termination and application-layer processing remain within chosen geographic boundaries for compliance and control.
-
AWS S3 Introduces Account-Regional Namespaces, Ending 18 Years of Global Bucket Name Collisions
AWS introduced account-regional namespaces for S3, fixing global bucket name collisions that broke IaC automation for 18 years. The new format is {prefix}-{account-id}-{region}-an. CloudFormation gets the BucketNamePrefix property, and IAM gets the s3:x-amz-bucket-namespace condition key. This prevents confused-deputy attacks by making names unpredictable when there is no account ID.
-
AWS Load Balancer Controller Reaches GA with Kubernetes Gateway API Support
AWS shipped GA support for Kubernetes Gateway API in its Load Balancer Controller, dumping annotation-based configuration for type-safe CRDs with proper validation. The release handles both L4 (TCP/UDP via NLB) and L7 (HTTP/gRPC via ALB) routing through the Gateway API spec. Teams get cross-namespace routing, automatic certificate discovery, and role separation without cluster-admin permissions.
-
AWS Expands Aurora DSQL with Playground, New Tool Integrations, and Driver Connectors
Amazon has announced several updates for Aurora DSQL, focusing on usability, integrations, and developer tooling. The improvements include a new interactive Aurora DSQL Playground that lets developers explore and experiment with the database directly in the browser, without registration or associated costs.
-
QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software
Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de facto standards, Bluesky's AT Protocol for social media, and local-first software for collaboration, all designed to make switching providers trivial and shift power back to users.
-
War in Iran Damages Multiple AWS Data Centers, Challenging Multi-AZ Assumptions
Earlier this month, Iranian drone strikes damaged three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing outages and disruptions to multiple services. The events, which affected multiple facilities within the same AWS region, sparked discussion in the community about how geopolitical conflict can directly impact global cloud infrastructure and multi-AZ deployments.
-
QCon London 2026: Your Multi-Cloud Strategy Is a Product Problem — Treat It Like One
JP Morgan Chase engineers Luis Albinati and Surabhi Mahajan argued that multi-cloud complexity can't be solved with engineering alone. Speaking at QCon London, they showed how treating multi-cloud as a product with capability mapping, demand governance, and defined users tames the chaos.
-
QCon London 2026: How to Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not to
Form3 runs UK bank payments across three clouds simultaneously. At QCon London, their engineers explained how they built their custom Kubernetes operators, cross-cloud DNS tricks, and distributed databases, and what happened when they tried to sell them in America. Spoiler: US customers wanted East/West failover, not triple-active multi-cloud.
-
AWS Launches Managed Openclaw on Lightsail amid Critical Security Vulnerabilities
AWS launched managed OpenClaw on Lightsail for AI agent deployment while security concerns mount. The 250k-star GitHub project is affected by CVE-2026-25253, which enables one-click RCE, with 17,500+ vulnerable instances exposed. Bitdefender found 20% of ClawHub skills malicious. AWS blueprint provides automated hardening, but doesn't address architectural security limits.