On October 20, 2026, AWS launched ECS Gateway, an account-level resource that provisions and manages Application Load Balancers, ACM certificates, WAF rules and security groups for your ECS services. A platform team defines the standard once, an application team connects a service with one line: the per-service ingress bottleneck is gone.

On October 15, 2026, Cloudflare added a Forward action and Custom Functions to Cloudflare Gateway, running your own code at the exact moment a security policy makes its decision. If you maintain NGINX proxy pools for header injection or Logpush pipelines for alerting, replace them with a single Worker.