Technology News & Updates

AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to identify snapshots that are created when snapshotting and deleting unattached Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by automatically applying an AWS-generated tag during creation. This enhancement improves visibility and tracking of EBS

Today, AWS announces AWS Observability as a Kiro power, enabling developers and operators to investigate infrastructure and application health issues faster with AI agent-assisted workflows in Kiro. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (M

AWS Elemental Inference, a fully managed Artificial Intelligence (AI) service that enables broadcasters and streamers to automatically generate vertical content and highlight clips for mobile and social platforms in real time, is now generally a

Today, we’re announcing AWS Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms and maximizes live and on-demand video broadcasts to engage audiences at scale. At launch, you’ll be able to use AWS Elemental Inference to adapt video content into vertical

Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling you to export snapshot data in Apache Parquet format for analytics, data retention, and machine learning use cases. Snapshot export to S3 supports all DB snapshot types (manual, automated sys

Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces support for grouping tasks into chunks to efficiently execute multiple tasks together. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows,

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 R7a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. R7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to R6

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest pe

AWS AppConfig today launched a new integration that enables automated, intelligent rollbacks during feature flag and dynamic configuration deployments using New Relic Workflow Automation. Building on AWS AppConfig's third-party alert capability, this integration provides teams us

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 1

AWS is announcing Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better c

If you’ve built a multi-agent workflow, you’ve probably seen it fail in a way that’s hard to explain. The system completes, and agents take actions. But somewhere along the way, something subtle goes wrong. You might see an agent close an issue that another agen

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Node Monitoring Agent is now open source. You can access the Amazon EKS Node Monitoring Agent source code and contribute to its development on GitHub. Running workloads reliably in Kubernetes clusters can be challenging. Cluster admi

Six teams are competing for the highest employee recognition at SAP: the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award. Starting this year, the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award comes with a modified, more focused approach. It now consists of two categories: “Scaling Innovation” and “Emerging Idea

Detect AI Risk. Protect AI Use. Undo AI Mistakes. AI agents are moving quickly from experimentation to operational infrastructure. In many organizations, that growth is outpacing the ability to control them and recover from failures. An agent is only as trustworthy as the data it

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for SQL Server 2022 Cumulative Update and KB5072936 (16.00.4230.2.v1). The GDR updates

Windows Server Annual Channel (Preview) on AKS will be retired on May 15, 2026, please transition to Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) by that date. We encourage you to transition to Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) prior to the retirement date to exp

From the high-frequency trading floors of Wall Street to orchestrating cloud data centers, the ability to synchronize events with nanosecond accuracy is critical. Yet, achieving this level of temporal precision across thousands of interconnected devices in a modern data center is

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Kiro. Other colleagues, Du

Announcing the public preview of Application Gateway WAF Insights. Azure Application Gateway WAF now offers WAF Insights, providing an interactive view of logs and metrics. WAF Insights enables quick investigation of blocked requests, analysis of attack p

As we celebrate Lunar New Year, it’s also a moment to reflect on our own origins. Acronis was founded in Singapore, where Lunar New Year is a festive season and cultural celebration of a new lunisolar calendar year. Honoring the Year of the Horse, this blog explores the cybersecu

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in Brazil Southeast (a region without Availability Zone), and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central.Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for A

For nearly a decade, Veeam has set the standard for innovation in Microsoft 365 backup and data protection. Veeam’s unwavering commitment to data resilience and security is now proven by a landmark achievement: Over 25 million Microsoft 365 users are protected by Veeam solutions.

Cybercriminals are spending less time using AI to develop new kinds of cyberattacks. Unfortunately, that’s not good news. According to the Acronis Cyberthreats Report H2 2025, cybercriminals are focusing on using AI to scale and refine the attacks they’ve already developed. As a

The newly released cross-tenant, partner-level vulnerability assessment and patch management in Acronis RMM is designed to enable MSPs to manage vulnerabilities and patches centrally across all customers while still accommodating customer‑specific requirements.

When developers hear “cloud” and “AI,” their first thought is often about cost. “How much will this cost me to learn? Can I build something meaningful without racking up a surprise bill?” Budget Bytes is a new series is designed to inspire developers to build affordable, producti

Nearly every snowboard trick carries a number. A 1080 means three full rotations. A 1440 means four. The convention is simple: add up every rotation around every axis and count in 180° increments. For decades it's served as the sport's universal shorthand for difficulty. Judges,

An increasing number of customers are migrating to Spanner from legacy NoSQL environments like Apache Cassandra. The strategic drivers are evident: a markedly lower total cost of ownership (TCO), elastic scalability, and near-zero maintenance overhead.  With the general availabil

In the world of generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings are the "secret sauce" that allow machines and AI agents to understand the semantic meaning of data. As BigQuery extends its autonomous data-to-AI platform, embeddings unblock valuable multimodal u

Bringing data into BigQuery centralizes your information, but the real challenge is making that data accessible. Often, technical barriers separate the people with questions — from execs to analysts — from the answers they need. With the Conversational Analytics API, powered by G

In our conversations with business and policy leaders across Europe, we have listened closely to their concerns about sovereignty and European competitiveness. It is clear that they often find themselves caught in a paradox that Europe must choose between autonomy and growth. At

You know that feeling when a sensory trigger instantly pulls you back to a moment in your life? For me, it’s Icy Hot. One whiff and I’m back to 5 a.m. formation time in the army. My shoulders tense. My body remembers. It’s not logical. It’s just how memory

Today, we’re announcing a step forward in core reasoning building on the Gemini 3 series: Gemini 3.1 Pro.  What’s new: 3.1 Pro is a noticeably smarter, more capable baseline for complex problem-solving. We’re shipping 3.1 Pro at scale, building upon our goal to help you transform

WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that the SAP Emarsys solution has been renamed to SAP Engagement Cloud reflecting SAP’s strategy to make engagement a core enterprise capability across the SAP portfolio. Deliver personalized, AI-driven engagement powered by SAP Busin

TL;DR Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard way for an AI app/agent to access tools, resources, and prompts exposed by an MCP server. The big new security risk MCP brings into the enterprise model is prompt injection/context manipulation that can steer an agent into unsafe t

Virtuozzo unifies virtualization, storage, networking and application management into a single product, reducing cost, complexity and operational overhead.

WALLDORF — The Supervisory Board and Executive Board of SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) recommend that shareholders approve a dividend of €2.50 per share for fiscal year 2025. This is an increase of €0.15, or 6.4% compared to the dividend paid for fiscal year 2024. If approved by shareholders

Over the years (decades), open source has grown and changed along with software development, evolving as the open source community becomes more global. But with any growth comes pain points. In order for open source to continue to thrive, it’s important for us to be aware o

Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers frontier-level performance on complex coding, agentic workflows, and professional knowledge work including reasoning at a lower

Managing AKS MCP servers can be affected by the number of tools and the amount of context required, which can increase latency and cost. The unified tooling for the AKS MCP Server introduces two new tools in public preview, call_az and call_kubectl, that

Users often face security and manageability challenges when diagnostic agents inherit broad user permissions, such as cluster-admin rights, and when each user must deploy their own instance. Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS, now in public preview,

Azure Functions Flex Consumption introduces new platform‑integrated tools that provide clearer insight into quota availability and deployment behavior. The quota troubleshooting experience surfaces Flex Consumption quota limits and related constraints,

Azure Functions support for .NET 10 is generally available, enabling production use of the latest .NET runtime for serverless applications. This support was introduced as part of the Azure Functions Ignite 2025 updates. .NET 10 is supported using the iso

For developers building AI applications, including custom agents and chatbots, the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard enables your innovations to access data and tools consistently and securely. At the end of 2025, we introduced managed and remote MCP support for s

Node auto‑provisioning removes the need for teams to manually size and manage compute resources for Kubernetes workloads. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides general availability support for node auto‑provisioning in Azure Government and private c

When AI agents make thousands of decisions a day, consistent performance isn't just a technical detail — it's a business requirement.  Provisioned Throughput (PT) solves this by giving you reserved resources that guarantee capacity and predictable performance. To help you scale,

For the second consecutive year Google (Spanner) has been recognized by Gartner in the Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases report, where it ranked #1 in the Lightweight Transactions Use Case. In our opinion, this is a testament to

Customers previously could not enable LocalDNS on clusters that used Node auto‑provisioning in AKS, limiting their ability to use this feature in those environments. LocalDNS is now generally available for AKS clusters with Node auto‑provisioning, providi

Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters previously did not have support for Encryption at Host and disk encryption sets. This limited users with certain security requirements for their cluster to not be able to use node auto-provisioning. Node auto-pro

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available today in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for teams who want frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale.Last week, we took a major step forward with the availability of Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry, bring

Modern software is built on open source projects. In fact, you can trace almost any production system today, including AI, mobile, cloud, and embedded workloads, back to open source components. These components are the invisible infrastructure of software: the download that alway

Announcing the General Availability of instant access support for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk. This new capability enables you to restore new disks immediately after creating snapshots of Pv2 and Ultra disks. Newly restore

Modern cloud systems are expected to deliver more than uptime. Customers expect consistent performance, the ability to withstand disruption, and confidence that recovery is predictable and intentional. In Azure, these expectations map the three distinct concepts: reliability, res

Acronis has been named to the 2026 CRN Security 100 list, marking its fifth consecutive year on the annual ranking.

Six teams are competing for the highest employee recognition at SAP: the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award. Starting this year, the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award comes with a modified, more focused approach. It now consists of two categories: “Scaling Innovation” and “Emerging Idea

Many operational technology (OT) environments depend on Windows 10 systems. In October 2025, Microsoft ended support for Windows 10. That doesn’t mean manufacturers have to immediately replace their systems, but it does change the risk profile related to unsupported operating sys

SAP has launched our new defense innovation hub, a dedicated environment designed to accelerate secure, mission-ready results across the defense ecosystem. The hub brings together startups, academia, industry leaders, and defense organizations to co-create solutions that strength

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance type powered by latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These inst

Since we launched Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI at AWS NY Summit 2025, customers have been asking for the same capabilities with Amazon Nova as they do when they customize open weights models in Amazon SageMaker Inference. They also wanted have more control and

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new i

The goal is clear for Royal Greenland and its more than 40 plants and factories along the coast of Greenland and Atlantic Canada: a more standardized, cloud‑based landscape with significantly lower complexity, and a technological foundation that can support future AI initiatives.

Imagine visiting your repository in the morning and feeling calm because you see: Issues triaged and labelled CI failures investigated with proposed fixes Documentation has been updated to reflect recent code changes. Two new pull requests that improve testing await your review.

Kubernetes version 1.34 is now generally available for AKS. This release introduces 58 upstream enhancements, including 23 Stable features, 22 Beta features, and 13 Alpha features.These enhancements help technical practitioners improve cluster operations,

Open collaboration runs on trust. For a long time, that trust was protected by a natural, if imperfect filter: friction. If you were on Usenet in 1993, you’ll remember that every September a flood of new university students would arrive online, unfamiliar with the norms, an

When we talk about agentic AI, it’s easy to default to abstract conversations about models, prompts, and orchestration. But the most compelling stories I see are the ones where AI unlocks something deeply human—creativity, intuition, and expertise—at entirely new speed and scale.

To celebrate this Valentine’s Day, we’re highlighting five real-world case studies that show how integrating the right solutions can save MSPs time, reduce complexity and strengthen security. Each case study example demonstrates how choosing tools built to work together leads to

The automotive industry has always been a bellwether for technological change. From mass production to lean manufacturing, from embedded software to connected vehicles, each wave of innovation has reshaped not just cars but entire ecosystems. Today, artificial intelligence is doi

This is the fifth interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that covers the different subprojects, and we will be covering SIG Architecture: API Governance. In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Jordan Liggitt, lead of the API Governance sub-project. Introducti

In mid-February 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:Simplify SQL deployments from Visual Studio Code using the new SQL Projects Publish dialog.Connections Migration dialog enables you to import your existing workflows and c

In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. January 13 09:38 UTC (lasting 46 minutes) On January 13, 2026, from 09:25 to 10:11 UTC, GitHub Copilot experienced a service outage with error rates averaging 18% and peaking at

Cloud operations have reached an inflection point. For more than a decade, the industry has focused on scale—more infrastructure, more data, more services, more dashboards to build and manage both infrastructure and applications. While today’s cloud delivers extraordinary flexibi

MUNICH —  SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today opened its defense innovation hub in Munich, Germany, underscoring its long-term commitment to strengthening digital readiness as a core element of modern defense capability. This comes at a time of growing geopolitical pressure, hybrid thr

Best PC antivirus for 2026: Acronis True Image vs. Norton, Bitdefender, McAfee and Kaspersky

You can now set UAE North as a region for Azure Private Link-enabled origins in your Azure Front Door Premium profile. Azure Private Link-enabled origins in Azure Front Door allow you to deliver content to your end-users through public Azure Front Door en

Introducing Supervisor Agent, now Generally Available in Azure Databricks. Supervisor Agent is part of the Azure Databricks Agent Bricks Platform. Supervisor Agent brings a breakthrough in agentic intelligence—using a dynamic supervisor pattern that under

As the demand for AI and data-intensive computing is on the rise, the need for efficient and reliable power delivery is critical. Enter high-temperature superconductors (HTS), a game-changing technology that can improve energy efficiency by reducing transmission losses. Microsoft

Meet your new process companion! Joule with SAP Signavio solutions is now generally available, helping users, analyze, and manage business processes using natural language. Better navigate constant change by turning business transformation into a core capability Learn how Joule i

Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week. Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure: Introducing Amazon EC2

We're announcing public preview of an AKS managed add-on that simplifies the deployment and lifecycle management of Application Gateway for Containers and its ALB Controller. With the managed AKS add-on, you can enable Application Gateway for Containers w

The SQL community is gathering in Atlanta this March for the first‑ever SQLCon, co‑located with FabCon, the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, March 16-20. One registration unlocks both events, giving you access to deep SQL expertise and the latest in Fabric, Power BI, data e