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Google's spend caps, now generally available, pause one listed service in a project; AWS's limits pause a whole project in a gradual rollout; Azure's limit equals subscription credit.

A GitHub advisory says kaniko before v1.25.20 can send an Entra ID token to a lookalike registry host named in a Dockerfile; the Go vulnerability database lists no fixed version of the upstream helper.

Microsoft's retirement guides give February 22, 2027 for Azure Deployment Environments and September 18, 2028 for Dev Box; InfoQ notes the guides do not explain the withdrawals.

GitHub says eligible Linux jobs may now run on AWS in addition to Azure, and warns that Azure-only IP allowlists or Entra Conditional Access policies can block the new runners.

After AWS said Bahrain data was unrecoverable, Azure gateways failed and a Google London zone went down, commentators say resilience must be designed and tested by customers.

Microsoft says a gateway management service change, combined with unrelated OS servicing, disrupted Azure ExpressRoute and VPN gateways from September 30 to October 1; a post incident review is pending.

AWS and Microsoft launched a public preview letting customers privately link AWS and Azure workloads at up to 100 Gbps, completing the open interconnect spec's rollout across Azure, OCI, and Google Cloud.

At Hot Chips 2026, Microsoft and an accompanying arXiv paper detailed Maia 200's software-defined dataflow architecture, a 750-watt inference chip delivering 10,145 Tflop/s of FP4 compute.

A maintenance-system bug stripped IP routes from Microsoft's West US datacenter on July 23, knocking out Teams, SharePoint, and Azure services for about five hours.

Accenture confirmed a security incident after a hacker known as "888" listed 35GB of alleged source code, RSA/SSH keys, and Azure access tokens for sale on a cybercrime forum.

At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot, open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework, and previewed the Windows Agent Runtime and Azure Agent Mesh.

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit seized signspace.cloud and revoked more than 1,000 fraudulent code-signing certificates after Fox Tempest sold access to Azure Artifact Signing for $5,000–$9,000 per transaction to ransomware groups including Rhysida, Akira, and Qilin.