Nebius releases AI Cloud 3.6 with the Echo infrastructure agent

Nebius released AI Cloud 3.6, also called Aether, which adds Nebius Echo, an AI agent that runs in the web console and can answer questions and carry out core cloud operations in natural language. The release also adds customer-managed encryption keys, Workload Identity Federation, a Budgets feature and bring-your-own-image support. Storage and file-system performance were also raised, with validated shared-filesystem clusters reaching 100 PB.

• Nebius Echo: natural-language agent in the web console, running on open-source models
• Customer-managed encryption keys and cryptographic erasure added
• Shared filesystem: up to 100x more IOPS for metadata-heavy workloads
• Validated cluster sizes reach 100 PB