Changelog

What's changed across the cloud landscape

Added (13)Capability (5)Compliance (2)Renamed (1)Deprecated (1)

July 2026

  1. CapabilityAWS

    Broken-URL sweep — 64 dead documentation and pricing links repaired

    URL-liveness audit surfaced 64 × HTTP 404 responses across 11 providers — dominated by URL patterns invented for services added during the recent vendor-triage arc plus a handful of vendor doc reorganisations (Oracle moved several OCI docs, Azure retired some pricing pages). Every broken URL now falls back to the provider's documentationBaseUrl (docs) or homepage (pricing), so no service card ships a dead link. Fixing to correct per-service URLs remains a background polish task.

  2. CapabilityAWS

    Cloud Weather section — three views of live cross-cloud status

    New /weather area with three complementary views of live operational status across every major cloud provider. Data refreshes every 30 seconds via the FluffyStack API worker, which polls each vendor's status feed on demand with a 60- second edge cache. Bidirectional linking between weather tiles and provider catalogue pages. Timezone-aware clocks (local + UTC) so screenshots posted publicly read unambiguously. Views: /weather (interactive tile grid, primary browsing view); /weather/dashboard (chrome-free signage variant, ?tz=utc opt-in for multi-office wall displays); /weather/forecast (TV-broadcast style with world map, weather-icon annotations near affected regions, rotating spotlight panel, scrolling news-crawl ticker).

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  3. AddedAWS

    96 new services from vendor-triage completeness arc

    Full pass through every audit:vendor-services candidate surfaced across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle. All 158 to- review entries triaged; 96 landed as real catalogue services. Additions include AWS Lake Formation, Application Migration Service, Cloud WAN, Detective, Fault Injection, Ground Station, Managed Blockchain, Oracle Database@AWS, PCS + 30 more AWS entries; Azure Confidential Ledger, Managed Redis, Storage Discovery + 30 more; GCP Blockchain RPC, Managed Lustre, Agentspace, Sensitive Data Protection + 6 more; OCI Dedicated Region, Digital Assistant, Document Understanding + 6 more. Catalogue grew from ~820 to 921 services across the arc.

  4. AddedT Cloud

    Sovereign-EU providers — Cloud Temple, Numspot, Cleura catalogued

    Second-pass sovereign-EU catalogue additions targeting buyers screening on SecNumCloud / EUCS / data-residency criteria. Cloud Temple (FR, independent SecNumCloud- certified), Numspot (FR, Docaposte / Outscale / Bouygues / Banque des Territoires JV), and Cleura (SE, former City Network OpenStack sovereign cloud). Each provider entry includes region metadata with sovereignty programme tags that flow through to /sovereignty and /weather/forecast.

May 2026

  1. CapabilityAWS

    Cross-provider equivalents mesh — 1,250 new edges, 11 peer clusters

    Catalogue now declares full peer-of-peer equivalents across object storage, general-purpose VMs, serverless functions, managed Kubernetes, container registries, serverless containers, CDN, load balancer, virtual private cloud, generative-AI / foundation-model APIs, and ML platforms. Whole-catalogue gap-pair count dropped from 1,529 to 753 (-51%). Compare, Migrate, and Service Builder now reliably surface every cross-provider alternative inside a cluster.

  2. AddedGCP

    GCP catalogue additions — Cloud Shell, Cloud HSM, DMS, Certificate Authority Service

    Four high-value Google Cloud services added from the vendor-coverage audit: Cloud Shell (browser-based gcloud shell with persistent /home), Cloud HSM (FIPS 140-2 Level 3 hardware-protected KMS keys), Database Migration Service (CDC-based replication into Cloud SQL / AlloyDB), and Certificate Authority Service (hosted private PKI). Each ships with sub-services, cross-provider equivalents, and policy identifiers.

  3. AddedAzure

    Azure catalogue additions — Cloud Shell, Database Migration, Cloud HSM, Managed Grafana, Dev Box

    Five Microsoft Azure services added from the vendor-coverage audit: Azure Cloud Shell, Database Migration Service, Cloud HSM (single-tenant FIPS 140-2 Level 3), Managed Grafana (Entra-ID-authenticated hosted Grafana), and Microsoft Dev Box (cloud-hosted developer workstations).

  4. AddedAWS

    AWS catalogue additions — CloudShell, DMS, CloudHSM, Managed Grafana, MWAA, Translate

    Six AWS services added from the vendor-coverage audit: AWS CloudShell (browser-based shell), Database Migration Service, CloudHSM, Managed Grafana, Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), and Amazon Translate. Each carries authoritative documentation / pricing URLs, sub-services, cross-provider equivalents, and compliance attestations where applicable.

  5. AddedKakao

    Kakao Cloud added as a provider

    Kakao Cloud — the Korean tech-conglomerate cloud — is now in the catalogue: Virtual Machine, Object Storage, Kubernetes Engine, MySQL, Load Balancer, and the Kanana generative-AI platform. Six services across the major categories. Brings the catalogue's Korean-cloud coverage to two hyperscalers (Naver + Kakao).

  6. AddedNaver

    Naver Cloud Platform added as a provider

    NCP — Naver's hyperscaler with strong APAC and Korean-domestic coverage — is now catalogued: Server, Object Storage, Kubernetes Service, Cloud DB for MySQL, Cloud Functions, CDN+, Papago translation, and CLOVA Studio LLM platform. Eight services.

  7. AddedHeroku

    Heroku added as a provider

    Salesforce's classic Heroku PaaS — Dynos, Postgres, Redis, Data for Kafka, CI, and Private Spaces — is now catalogued. Eight services across compute, database, integration, and devtools. Multi-cloud dynos run on AWS underneath but the developer surface is its own product.

  8. AddedVercel

    Vercel added as a provider

    Vercel's hosted developer-platform suite is now in the catalogue: Functions (Node, Python, Edge, Fluid Compute), Edge Middleware, Postgres (Neon-backed), KV (Upstash-backed), Blob, Edge Config, Analytics, Firewall, Image Optimisation, and the deployment platform itself. Ten services. Vercel itself runs on AWS + Cloudflare underneath, but its developer-facing product surface is distinct.

April 2026

  1. AddedCloudflare

    Cloudflare D1 reaches GA

    Cloudflare D1 (serverless SQLite at the edge) is now generally available with production SLAs. Per-row read/write pricing, free tier covers 5 GB and 5 million reads/day.

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March 2026

  1. ComplianceOVHcloud

    OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes adds UK G-Cloud certification

    OVHcloud's Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) is now certified for the UK Government G-Cloud framework, joining its existing GDPR and ISO 27001 attestations. UK public-sector workloads can now be procured directly through the Digital Marketplace.

  2. AddedHuawei

    Huawei ModelArts launches in EU regions

    Huawei Cloud's end-to-end AI development platform is now available in eu-west-Frankfurt and eu-west-London regions. Includes AutoML, model training, and inference deployment.

February 2026

  1. CapabilityAWS

    Graviton4 instances for EC2

    AWS announces general availability of EC2 instances powered by Graviton4 processors. Up to 30% better compute performance and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3. New R8g, M8g, C8g instance families available in 14 regions.

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  2. AddedOracle

    OCI Generative AI adds Llama 3.3 model

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Generative AI service now offers Meta's Llama 3.3 70B as a hosted model alongside existing Cohere models. Available via REST API and the SDK.

January 2026

  2. RenamedAzure

    Azure renames AD authentication to Entra ID

    Azure Active Directory authentication on VMs is now consistently branded as Microsoft Entra ID across docs and APIs. Existing API surface remains compatible — only the user-facing name has changed.

December 2025

  1. DeprecatedGCP

    Cloud Functions (1st gen) deprecated

    Google Cloud announces that the original Cloud Functions runtime (1st gen) is deprecated. New deployments must use 2nd gen, which is built on Cloud Run. Existing 1st gen functions continue to work until 2027-01-31.

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November 2025

  2. AddedIBM

    Watson Assistant gets watsonx.ai integration

    IBM Watson Assistant can now use watsonx.ai foundation models for generative responses, alongside the existing intent-based dialogue flow. New action builder UI for orchestrating LLM calls.

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