Cloudflare’s new MCP controls turn TLS-inspected Gateway traffic into an inventory and policy surface for remote MCP use, while explicitly leaving local stdio, off-network and uninspected traffic outside visibility.
Retention-locked backups are gaining a project-level consequence: Google Cloud plans to create automatic liens that can block project deletion while protected backups remain. Infra teams need to account for this in teardown automation, IAM and recovery design.