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Amazon Q Business stops taking new customers on July 31, 2026, and AWS points users to Amazon Quick. This playbook covers the BYOI migration path, what does not carry over, and Quick Suite costs.
AWS launched a free FinOps Agent in June 2026 on Bedrock. A 2026 decision guide comparing it with Finout, Amnic, Cloudability and native Cost Optimization Hub, with pricing, so you know when native is enough and when
On June 8, 2026 AWS added target coverage analysis to the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer. Here is how to pick a coverage percentage, run the analysis, and size a commitment without paying for unused capacity.
On July 21, 2026 AWS split Amazon SES into three plans, Essentials, Pro and Enterprise, while keeping a-la-carte pricing. The plans are not cheaper per email, so the real decision is tooling, not send price.
AWS reduced ECS Managed Instances management fees 60% for P-series and Trainium and 35% for G-series from July 1, 2026, the same day Capacity Block GPU rates rose. Here is how to capture the cut, with configuration
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore moved every agent trace, prompt and log into a single per-agent CloudWatch log group and lifted default limits to 5,000 concurrent sessions. A config-level guide to the July 2026 observability
Aurora DSQL went GA in May 2025 with DPU-based pricing; Aurora Serverless v2 bills per ACU. We ran the same pgbench workload on both: DSQL was 4x slower and 13% dearer. Which wins for a new build in 2026?
AWS launched Database Savings Plans at re:Invent 2025: up to 35% off nine managed database services for a 1-year commitment. We run the real numbers against Reserved Instances so you know when each one actually wins.
AWS shipped two NVIDIA Blackwell inference families in 2026: G7 with up to 4.6x the inference of G6, and G7e that runs a 70B model on a single 96 GB GPU and is now live in Mumbai. Here is the spec, cost and decision
India's public cloud spending is forecast to grow 28.1% to $17.5 billion in 2026, and Flexera says wasted spend rose to 29% for the first time in five years. This is a refreshed, senior-engineer FinOps playbook: nine
AWS's June 2026 container caching removes the ECR image pull from SageMaker scale-out. In AWS's own test a GenAI endpoint's cold start fell from 525 to 258 seconds. The benchmarks and when to use it.
Alibaba Cloud unveiled Agent Native Cloud at WAIC on 18 July 2026, adding AgentLoop and AgentTeams to AgentRun. Here is how the three big agent runtimes compare on billing, isolation, observability and lock-in.
AWS put Bedrock Agents Classic into maintenance mode on 30 July 2026. Existing agents keep running, but new accounts get a 403 and the model catalog freezes. Here is the capability-by-capability migration map
AWS made Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base generally available on 17 June 2026. It removes the vector store, the parsing pipeline and the retrieval orchestration. It also removes some control, and it is not in
Amazon EKS 1.33 drops out of standard support on 29 July 2026 and billing jumps from $0.10 to $0.60 per cluster hour that same day. Here is the upgrade path to 1.36 and every breaking change between.
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of standard support on 31 July 2026, and Extended Support billing begins the next day at roughly $292/month for a single db.r5.xlarge. Azure and Google Cloud bill from 1 January
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is AWS's platform for production AI agents. Its Web Search tool reached GA on 17 June 2026 at $7 per 1,000 queries. Build a cited, web-grounded agent over MCP, with code and pricing.
Amazon Bedrock's new Mantle console connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more to GPT, Claude and open-weight models with IAM or a Bedrock API key. Here is how to wire each coding agent through Bedrock.
Meta reportedly plans Meta Compute to rent out its spare AI GPUs, and the news moved billions on 1 July 2026. What is confirmed, why the neoclouds fell hardest, and whether renting surplus GPU capacity is worth it.
AWS Interconnect - multicloud reached GA on 14 April 2026 with Google Cloud as first launch partner. A 10 Gbps Tier 1 link costs $9,000.90 a month with no per-GB charges. Attach a Cloud WAN Core Network with a Singapore
Four vendors rebuilt their agent runtimes around the session in 2026, and they agree on routing but disagree on the compute primitive underneath. A comparison of AWS AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, Google Agent Engine
Egress is the cloud line item nobody quotes in the sales deck. Here is what four providers charge per GB as of June 2026, the hidden charges that dwarf the headline rate, and what the EU Data Act actually abolishes
AWS lifted EC2 Capacity Block rates roughly 20% on July 1, 2026, six months after a 15% rise on January 4. P6-B300 now bills at $14.04 per accelerator hour. Here is what changed, why analysts disagree on the cause
Microsoft expanded its AWS-to-Azure migration tooling in 2026. But migration has hidden costs: moving 50 TB can cost $3,500 to $7,000 in egress alone. How to evaluate a switch on total cost, not vendor marketing.
AWS removed its advanced-instances tier on June 30, 2026, so you can manage Azure VMs from AWS Systems Manager at no per-node charge. A setup walkthrough, an honest SSM versus Azure Arc comparison, and the App Manager
Cloud waste hit a five-year high of 29% in 2026 as AI workloads made spend unpredictable. eCorpIT's cloud FinOps managed service brings visibility, rightsizing, and anomaly detection to AWS, Azure, and GCP so teams cut
AWS's FinOps Agent entered public preview at FinOps X 2026: agentic AI that root-causes cost spikes, answers plain-language cost questions, and attributes Bedrock AI spend by model and user.
Microsoft's $2.5 billion Frontier and AWS's $1 billion engineer org are the biggest bets yet that enterprise AI succeeds or fails on deployment, not models. What the vendor plays mean for buyers in 2026.
Companies waste about 27% of cloud spend, and AI is now the fastest-growing line. Six FinOps ways Indian teams cut AWS, Azure and GCP bills in 2026, from commitment discounts to cutting the GPU and token bill.
