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1. Cloud & data centers · Programming & dev tools

   Cloudflare adds spending limits and alerts

   Cloudflare's Spend Management lets users set spending thresholds and have activity paused when they are reached. This aims to avoid unexpected bills from unplanned usage.

   Full story at blog.cloudflare.com ↗
2. Cloud & data centers · DevOps & containers · Programming & dev tools

   GitHub publishes its October 2026 availability report

   GitHub added substantial independently scalable Azure capacity in October, but write outages and a regional network disruption showed the need for safer operations. As of November 9, 140 of 151 production services ran in Azure Central US.

   Full story at github.blog ↗
3. Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence

   Google Cloud Credits can be claimed in AI Studio

   Google says Google Cloud Credits can be claimed in Google AI Studio. The text gives no further details.

   Full story at blog.google ↗
4. Cloud & data centers · Enterprise software

   Broadcom and NTT Docomo advance private cloud with VCF

   Broadcom and NTT Docomo are advancing a private cloud using VCF. The story offers no further details.

   Full story at news.broadcom.com ↗
5. Cloud & data centers · Cybersecurity · Programming & dev tools

   Amazon Cognito adds OAuth 2.0 token exchange

   Amazon Cognito now supports token exchange under RFC 8693. A service or AI agent acting for a user can swap the user's token for a new one scoped to a specific downstream service.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
6. Artificial intelligence · New AI models · Cloud & data centers · Programming & dev tools

   Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US) gets Grok 4.7

   Grok 4.7 is now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. It comes with experimental support and a 500K context window.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
7. Cloud & data centers · Data & databases

   Amazon RDS for Oracle cuts maintenance downtime

   Amazon RDS for Oracle now has less downtime for automatic minor version upgrades and for upgrades and OS updates in the maintenance window. This makes staying current easier with less disruption to applications.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
8. Data & databases · Cloud & data centers

   MongoDB speeds up Atlas Search and Vector Search

   MongoDB made Atlas Search and Vector Search queries up to 5x faster by removing redundant query planning and execution overhead. The underlying search algorithms were not changed.

   Full story at MongoDB ↗
9. Programming & dev tools · DevOps & containers · Cloud & data centers

   Vercel raises its build cache limit

   The build cache size limit on Vercel is now 5 GB. No further details are given.

   Full story at Vercel ↗

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