OpenAI expands its AWS partnership: managed agents, ChatGPT in Slack and Teams
OpenAI will run managed agents on AWS and bring ChatGPT to Slack and Teams without individual licenses, with a private-inference preview coming this fall.
Cloud
Published entries across all sections carrying the “Cloud” tag, newest first by publication date on this site.
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free-for-dev: Free service tiers for developers
free-for-dev curates 1,300+ SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services with real free tiers — never trials — across 57 categories, with the full list mirrored on this page.
Alibaba Cloud details Agent Sandbox: 100k sandboxes a minute, 180ms P99 cold starts
Alibaba Cloud detailed Agent Sandbox at Yunqi: MicroVM isolation, 100k sandboxes per minute, sub-180ms P99 cold starts, and an E2B-compatible API.
The 2026 low-cost indie stack: run a SaaS on $20 a month
A first pick and a backup for every layer — framework, starter, database, auth, payments, hosting, testing, monitoring — all with official links and free tiers. Follow it and your fixed monthly cost stays under $20; most months it is $0.
Anthropic signs a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, a bet on CPUs
Akamai announced on September 24, 2026, that Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on its cloud, the largest contract in Akamai’s history. Akamai also issued Anthropic a warrant, and the deal could grow to about $20 billion.
UK AI neocloud Nscale raises $3.36 billion in convertible notes ahead of its US IPO
British AI cloud company Nscale has secured $3.36 billion in convertible financing led by Third Point, with Nvidia participating, TechCrunch reported on September 25. The notes convert to equity once its IPO closes, and its filing shows more than $103 billion in contracts.