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5 articlesEKS clusters lag on an AWS auth deprecation, per The New Stack
The New Stack reports that 81% of Amazon EKS clusters still run an AWS EKS authentication method the vendor has deprecated. For platform teams whose deploy pipelines target EKS, the number reads as a migration flag against the auth path baked into kubeconfigs, CI service accounts and IaC modules.
Aug 20, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoIdentity and accessAzure DevOps opens a Service Connection off-ramp from PATs and build session tokens
A preview from Microsoft DevOps lets Azure Pipelines authenticate against Azure DevOps with an Entra-backed Service Connection instead of a Personal Access Token or Build Session token. The coverage is scoped: repo resources, YAML template checkouts, NuGetAuthenticate, InvokeRESTAPI and the AzureCLI task.
Aug 15, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoIdentity and accessVercel buys Better Auth on the pitch that agents need their own login
Vercel has acquired Better Auth, framed as a bet that AI agents opening PRs, reviewing code and creating deployments should hold first-class identity of their own. For CI/CD platforms, that reopens the question of what the merge and deploy gates are actually verifying.
Jul 8, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoIdentity and accessBoundary 1.0 adds RDP session recording, previews AI-agent access controls
HashiCorp shipped Boundary 1.0 with RDP session recording and a preview of work aimed at securing AI-agent access. For teams that route Windows targets through the proxy, session recording lands as an audit point that used to live in ad-hoc tooling.
Jul 7, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoIdentity and accessAnthropic swaps per-developer Claude Code secrets for an OIDC gateway
Anthropic shipped a self-hosted Claude apps gateway that runs Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud without per-developer cloud credentials, federating identity through Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or any standards-compliant OIDC provider.
Jul 5, 2026 · Tomás Vega