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Amazon Aurora Serverless gets faster burst scaling

Aurora Serverless can now add roughly 12 ACUs in the first second of a scale-up event on platform versions 3 and 4. The change is automatic and is most useful for bursty SaaS, API, batch and agent workloads, but it does not remove the separate resume delay when a database has scaled all the way to zero.

Pantheon starts moving existing WordPress and Drupal sites off its Valhalla filesystem

This is a platform architecture migration rather than a user-facing feature. Pantheon says no action is required, but builders operating storage-sensitive WordPress or Drupal workloads should know when their tier moves and verify backup, restore and file-handling behavior around the change.

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Shopify starts moving app developers toward App Pricing

Shopify's App Pricing migration is now clearer: directly matching subscriptions can move through plan setup, while usage-based and price-mismatched subscriptions stay on the Billing API until a separate Migration API arrives.

Cloud Run adds singleton instances for long-lived, individually addressable workloads

Cloud Run instances sit between autoscaling serverless services and a small VM. They run one individually addressable container continuously, can be stopped and restarted, and use shared CPU economics; Google’s launch example prices 1 vCPU plus 1 GiB running for 30 days at $5.70.

AWS Lambda can now reference deployment packages directly from your S3 bucket

AWS has added a `REFERENCE` mode for Lambda deployment packages. It eliminates duplicate managed copies, raises the default managed-storage quota to 300GB, and gives teams direct control over encryption, lifecycle and audit policy—but a deleted or inaccessible source object can now make a function inactive.

Google Cloud extends Agent Identity into Cloud Run with automatic Agent Registry registration

Agent Identity is moving from a standalone credential boundary into a mainstream serverless runtime. Cloud Run can now assign agent identities and register agents/MCP servers automatically, reducing custom discovery and identity plumbing while keeping the runtime integration itself in Preview.

Cursor turns cloud agents into event-driven workers — and now lets teams choose where they execute

Self-Hosted Machines changes the architecture of Cursor’s Cloud Agents more than another model option would. Teams can keep code, build outputs, secrets and terminal/browser actions on infrastructure they control, but the planning/inference loop remains a Cursor service and enterprise teams become responsible for worker images, scaling, secrets and production validation.