InfoQ - Cloud

DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks Through Cloud-Based Agents

Leela Kumili — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:28:00 GMT

DoorDash has moved engineering agent workloads from developer laptops to its Flux cloud platform. The platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month and supports more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly. Flux uses isolated Firecracker microVMs, an MCP gateway, reusable playbooks, and multiple invocation surfaces to run agent workflows with scoped access and centralized auditing.

By Leela Kumili

Article: Eliminating Long-Lived Credentials in GCP with Workload Identity Federation

Shijin Nair — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Long-lived GCP service account keys are secrets that must be managed forever, are hard to rotate, and are easy to leak. Scaling Workload Identity Federation to 120+ production projects shows why it changes how machine identity is approached entirely: keys are secrets to manage, federated identities are trust relationships configured once, gated by attribute conditions.

By Shijin Nair

Foundry Model Router Expands from Two Regions to 28, Refreshing Its Model Pool

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:18:00 GMT

Microsoft expanded Foundry's model router from two regions to 28 for global standard and 21 for data zone deployments, while adding Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 and removing four deprecated models. Default deployments receive pool changes automatically; configured subsets exclude new models until added. The effective context window equals the smallest model in the pool.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Cloudflare Extends AI Search to Make it Easier for Agents and Developers to Search Custom Data

Sergio De Simone — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare AI Search is a built-in search and retrieval service designed to give AI agents and applications a ready-to-use search engine over custom data. It supports agent integration, multimodal search, and seamless integration with other Cloudflare tools.

By Sergio De Simone

Cloudflare Workers Accept Inbound TCP, with gRPC the First Protocol on Top

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:55:00 GMT

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any language, while Workers get unary and server-streaming through automatic gRPC-web translation. Everything is private beta.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Google Cloud Launches AI-powered Agents to Simplify Database Lifecycle Management

Sergio De Simone — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Google Cloud has introduced AI-powered Database Operations Agents, featuring an Onboarding Agent that streamlines database setup and an Observability Agent that helps automate troubleshooting, performance optimization, and tuning. Integrated with Gemini Cloud Assist, these agents support multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Bigtable, and Spanner.

By Sergio De Simone

Cloudflare Wallets Arrives Late to x402, and the Spending Controls Stop at the Payment

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:04:00 GMT

Cloudflare announced Wallets, giving agents a stablecoin balance and spending controls, though only handle claiming is live and squatting complaints have already surfaced. Payments run on x402, now hosted by the Linux Foundation. The controls bound single payments, not sequences, leaving composition to the application above.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

OVHcloud Raises Prices as AI Memory Demand Reprices Non-AI Infrastructure

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:43:00 GMT

OVHcloud will raise prices from September, with 2026-edition gaming servers up 87 percent and other recent servers 40 to 59 percent. Founder Octave Klaba says memory cost six times more in June than a year earlier, as RAM suppliers shifted capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for AI. AWS, buying years ahead, has repriced one reserved GPU product.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Cloudflare Announces Kitesurf, a Browser Engine for Agents

Renato Losio — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:01:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently introduced Kitesurf, a lightweight browser built for automated workloads. Kitesurf runs browser components in isolated WebAssembly/Rust environments on Cloudflare Workers and supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol, allowing tools such as Playwright and Puppeteer to drive it with lower resource overhead than a full Chromium browser.

By Renato Losio

AWS Releases aws-bench to Evaluate Agents on Cloud Tasks

Gianmarco Nalin — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real AWS tasks such as misconfigurations and infrastructure provisioning. Unlike traditional benchmarks, it uses real resources in disposable AWS accounts, scoring agent performance through automated verifiers.

By Gianmarco Nalin

Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server Reaches GA, without Support for Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:55:00 GMT

Microsoft has made the Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server generally available, offering a hosted endpoint into work items, repos, and pipelines with nothing to install. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Cursor cannot connect yet because Entra lacks support for dynamic client registration and Client ID Metadata Documents.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

S3 Compatibility Doesn't Guarantee S3-Level Security

Renato Losio — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:41:00 GMT

Security researchers at Wiz recently examined S3-compatible object storage services across six popular neoclouds, revealing significant security gaps compared to Amazon S3. While S3 has become the de facto standard for object storage, most services lack several of AWS's security protections.

By Renato Losio