networking

Google Cloud made Network Connectivity Center support for Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect for AWS generally available on September 29, and said billing for the AWS link will begin over the following 30 days.

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.

CVE-2026-80590, a bug letting unprivileged users trigger a kernel panic via mismarked IPv4/IPv6 fragments, is fixed across eight stable and longterm kernel releases.

OPI Abstraction v0.1.0 introduces a vendor-neutral API layer across 26 repositories and a first production deployment blueprint for DPUs and IPUs.

Gateway API 1.6 promotes TCPRoute and UDPRoute to GA, closing a gap for raw TCP/UDP workloads, and moves experimental resources into a new API group.

Six-company collaboration publishes Multipath Reliable Connection 1.0 through the Open Compute Project on May 6 after production use in OpenAI's Blackwell-class supercomputers at Microsoft Fairwater and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Abilene.

Amazon's new managed gateway eliminates the need to make on-premises pod CIDRs routable from a VPC, using leader-elected EC2 nodes, VXLAN tunnels, and Cilium VTEP entries to bridge cloud and on-prem Kubernetes traffic.

AWS moved its cross-cloud private networking service to general availability on April 14, turning a preview into production and a bilateral deal into what analysts are calling a de facto standard.

Equinix has launched Fabric Intelligence, an AI-native operational layer for its 4,400-customer interconnection platform that exposes network provisioning through natural language agents and MCP servers.

SIG Network ships the stable release of its migration tool two weeks before Ingress-NGINX was archived, expanding annotation coverage tenfold and introducing behavioral equivalence testing against live clusters.

Cilium 1.19 introduces beta ztunnel integration for transparent mTLS encryption without sidecars, strict encryption modes for WireGuard and IPsec, and stable Multi Pool IPAM, as the CNCF-graduated eBPF networking project marks a decade of development.

AT&T commits $250 billion through 2030 to expand fiber, 5G, and satellite networks, but analysts question how much is new spending versus relabeled costs.