Cloud news

The providers announce launches, previews, new regions, deprecations, retirements and security bulletins every day, most of them about services you don't use. Cloud news reads their announcements and puts first the ones that concern what your workspace actually runs: a Lambda runtime retirement comes first in a workspace with Lambda functions, and doesn't show at all in one without. It's included in the Starter, Team and Enterprise plans.

What's read

Only the feeds each provider publishes, read every half hour. The last 120 days of news are kept.

Each item gets a kind (launch, preview, new regions, change, deprecation, retirement, breaking change, security, fix and other), the services it names, the regions it names and, for a retirement or deprecation, the date it takes effect. That's worked out from each feed's own categories and wording, not by a model.

How news is matched

Every workspace reads the same public feeds. Matching them against what you run happens inside your workspace, so AssetHermit never learns which services or regions you use from the news, and nothing about your inventory is shared to work it out.

The match uses the services your workspace holds assets of, with their counts, and the regions those assets are in. It's worked out for each reader, within what they can see: a member limited to some accounts is matched against those accounts' assets only. Each item falls in one of three groups:

• Affects you: an item that's a deprecation, retirement, breaking change and security, about a service you use. If it names regions, at least one of them has your assets.
• For you: any other item about a service you use, in all regions or in one where you have assets.
• Other: everything else.

A workspace sees news only from the clouds it has an asset or cost source for, unless you switch on All clouds.

Where news shows

• Cloud news in the workspace's menu counts the unread items that affect you. Its page has two tabs, For you (the items that affect you or are for you) and All, with filters for cloud, kind and service. Each item shows the services it matched as links to their type views, with your asset counts, the regions of yours it names, and when it retires.
• The dashboard has a Cloud news card with up to three items that affect you, hidden when there are none.
• Each type view in the inventory, and each asset's page, has a strip with the items that affect that type's service.

Opening the page marks everything read, for you in that workspace. Your first visit starts with nothing unread, so you're not greeted by months of old news.

Notifications

Workspace admins get a Provider announcement affects this workspace notice for each new item that affects the workspace, and a reminder 30 days before a retirement or deprecation takes effect. When more than 5 arrive at once, one notice counts them. They go to the inbox and, by email, only in the daily digest, never one email per item. Slack carries them when an admin routes Cloud news to a channel. See Notifications.

Asking the assistant

The assistant reads cloud news as you see it, so it answers questions such as "Is anything we use being retired?" or "What did AWS launch for ECS this month?" with the services and asset counts each item matched. AI clients connected through MCP can ask the same. It treats the providers' text as quotes, never as instructions.

The providers' text

AWS and Azure items show their title and a link to the provider's page, with the kind, services, regions and dates AssetHermit works out. Google Cloud items also show a summary, which Google publishes under CC BY 4.0, with the attribution "Portions reproduced from work created and shared by Google" linking to the source.