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AWS, Azure and Google Cloud changes: limits, retirements and what breaks.
The AWS CLI 2.36.30 reference lists four container-instance health check types. The ECS API Reference lists three. The drain threshold that triggers instance replacement is published in neither.
Manu Shukla 
AWS announced 10 external OIDC identity providers per EKS cluster on 24 August 2026 at no extra charge. The user guide adds a Kubernetes 1.32 floor and a 12 KB ceiling the announcement never mentions.
Manu Shukla 
Microsoft's 24 August 2026 GA note says the eBPF host routing rollout respects existing connections. The enable page it links says the opposite and pins a Kubernetes version that died in July 2026.
Manu Shukla 
Azure App Service published its Node 22 LTS retirement on 24 August 2026 and named Node 24 LTS as the target. The Node.js schedule put Node 24 into maintenance 57 days later and ends it in April 2028.
Manu Shukla 
Azure Application Gateway WAF can now return a custom status code and body instead of a bare 403. The announcement claims parity with Front Door, but only Front Door publishes the five permitted codes.
Manu Shukla 
Amazon SES shipped ses:custom-path on 14 August 2026 so click-tracking URLs can match Universal Links and App Links. The AWS example uses Apple legacy paths syntax, and a bad value fails silently.
Manu Shukla 
AWS Glue 6.0 went generally available on 21 August 2026 with a 30% price reduction. The cut is version-gated, several meters are excluded, and Iceberg v3 tables cannot be read by Athena SQL.
Manu Shukla 
Vercel started metering Deployment Storage and Functions Storage at $0.10 per GB-month on 21 August 2026. The Pro retention default keeps production deployments for one year, and nobody set it.
Manu Shukla 
OAuth 2.1 removes the local proxy from AWS MCP Server setups. It also removes per-call AWS profile switching, which is the one feature consultancies working across client accounts actually rely on.
Manu Shukla 
Azure's ExpressRoute gateway advertises at most 1,000 IPv4 prefixes to on-premises and Premium does not lift it. summarizedGatewayPrefixes substitutes prefixes rather than adding them.
Manu Shukla 
Putting origin access control in front of an S3 Multi-Region Access Point means reconciling a Developer Guide, an API reference and an S3 user guide that contradict each other on signing protocol, origin type and Region
Manu Shukla 
AWS says there is no additional cost to generate a SageMaker inference recommendation. Its own EAGLE documentation shows optimization jobs running on training instances for up to 120 hours across ten nodes.
Manu Shukla 