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Welcome to the October 2026 edition of theVar Cloud.
In this edition - Google's new compute offering, AWS and Amazon Prime, SQL Server in Azure local and more.
As usual, if you found something interesting that you think should be included here, you're interested in a sponsorship, or you have something to say about the content of this newsletter - drop me a mail at [email protected]
Introducing Google Cloud’s U4 compute - Successful traders look for the lowest latency possible, to keep track with the market. And the new compute option from Google offers just that. See the announcement here.
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All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS - AWS is (obviously…) the platform powering Amazon Primer Day, and the numbers behind it are amazing. Want to guess how many invocations per day were handled by AWS Lambda? See it here.
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SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available - Running a cloud database on-premises sure sounds good, and now you can do it with your SQL Server, with the new announcement from Microsoft.
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Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway - Cloudflare just announced their new OHTTP Gateway, allowing app backends to receive HTTP requests without disclosing the user IP addresses. Read about it here.
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Meet Me at the Nordic APIs Summit
This week I’m going to attend the Nordic APIs Summit conference, taking place in beautiful Stockholm, Sweden.
In this conference, I’m going to talk about API Gateway - The Do’s and Don’ts, a topic that’s close to my heart after working with countless clients who implemented API Gateways.
So if you’re attending the event - come and say hi! And if you’re not - I have a special discount for you :-)
Use the speakerps26-15 discount code to get 15% discount of the list price when you Register to the conference.
Looking forward to see you there!
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So, that was the October 2026 edition of theVar Cloud.
I hope you enjoyed it, and feel free to suggest and comment on it, simply by replying to this mail.
Also, if you created a unique content you think can be included here - drop me a note!
Looking forward for your feedback!
Cheers,
Memi