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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastes

Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports conditional processing and a new drop events processor, giving you more control over how your log data is transformed. CloudWatch pipelines is a fully managed service that ingests, transforms, and routes log data to CloudWatch without requ

Developers can now route Stripe events directly into Azure Event Grid and build scalable, event-driven architectures without managing webhook infrastructure or custom brokers.This means that Event Grid acts as a fully managed event broker between Stripe a

In the enterprise landscape, data is often highly fragmented across multiple source systems. Data curation is the process of organizing, cleaning, and enriching raw data to transform it into high-quality, AI-ready data assets. The traditional process of merging and cleaning this

Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces support for creating monitors in multiple AWS Regions without additional configuration of your IAM Identity Center instance. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps creative teams manage and scale their rendering workloads in t

Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes new compliance and governance capabilities to help you maintain data integrity and control access when processing logs. CloudWatch pipelines is a fully managed service that ingests, transforms, and routes log data to CloudWatch without req

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), South America (Sao Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).  Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run

Leaders across industries around the world are asking: How do we harness all of this powerful technology effectively and at scale, to solve real problems, and drive value and impact, right now?Google has been building for this moment from the beginning; 25 years ago, Google creat

For decades, expense automation relied on a simple premise: If the machine can read the text, it can do the work. But anyone who has ever tried to scan a crumpled, smudged, or sun-bleached receipt from their pocket knows that reading isn't enough. When key data is missing, such a

Agentic workflows are already used for initiating action. To be successful, agents typically need to combine multiple steps and execute business logic reflective of real-life decisions. But, as developers rush to deploy these autonomous agents, they are slamming into a wall: the

QueryData launches in preview today. It is a tool for translating natural language into database queries with near-100% accuracy. With QueryData, you can build agentic experiences across AlloyDB, Cloud SQL (for MySQL and PostgreSQL), and Spanner (for GoogleSQL). It builds upon Go

Migrating your existing application load balancer infrastructure from an on-premises hardware solution to Cloud Load Balancing offers substantial advantages in scalability, cost-efficiency, and tight integration within the Google Cloud ecosystem. Yet, a fundamental question often

In freeskiing and snowboarding, traditional video replay shows you what happened during a complex aerial maneuver, but it fails to explain the physics of how it was possible. At the speed of the sport, it's incredibly difficult to translate high-speed motion into actionable data—

More organizations are using natural language to query data instead of writing manual SQL. But moving an AI agent from a prototype to a production-ready tool requires rigorous, repeatable testing. Prism is an open-source evaluation tool for Conversational Analytics in the BigQuer

The rapid evolution of AI is redefining industries, while also exposing organizations to new risks. At Google Cloud, we believe that modern cloud defense should have AI protection built in and accessible by default, delivering native guardrails and controls that are essential to

In today's data-rich environment, organizations possess vast amounts of information. Yet, bridging the gap between that data and the users who need to make daily, informed decisions remains a challenge. Users need a single place to curate and analyze their data from the many diff

Welcome to GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners! In this series (available in video format and on the GitHub Blog), we’ll explore how to use your AI coding assistant directly in your terminal, along with tips and tricks on how to navigate the command line like a pro! In this bl

AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards now support scheduled email delivery for your reports. You can now automate report distribution on flexible recurring schedules, eliminating manual compilation work and ensuring financial insights reach decision-makers without

AWS RTB Fabric now supports health checks for real-time bidding workloads that use EC2 Auto Scaling groups (AGS). Health checks in AWS RTB Fabric continuously monitors and automatically routes traffic to healthy instances with configurable settings in RTB responder gateways.&nbsp

The integration between Acronis and SuperOps was built to address these challenges head-on. By connecting cyber protection services directly into the SuperOps ecosystem, MSPs gain better visibility, fewer handoffs between tools and more consistent service delivery, while maintain

AWS Backup is expanding support for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Lustre with two regional enhancements. First, AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of these FSx file systems in 5 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Malaysi

WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has extended the contract of Gina Vargiu-Breuer (51), Chief People Officer of SAP SE, for another three years until January 31, 2030. “In her role as chief people officer, Gina Vargiu-Breuer has

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3+GDR KB5077474 (RDS version 13.00

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports customer-defined maintenance windows, giving you control over when routine maintenance is performed on your InfluxDB databases. This feature is available for both InfluxDB 2 instances and InfluxDB 3 clusters across all supported edition

Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM principal, such as IAM users and IAM roles, in AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) and Cost Explorer. This enables customers to understand and attribute Bedrock model inference costs across users, teams, projects, and applica

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides a unified observability experience that brings together metrics, logs, traces, and AI agent tracing in a single interface. This release introduces native integration with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and comprehensive agent tracing

Digital sovereignty is no longer a niche requirement. For organizations operating across borders, regulated industries, and complex supply chains, sovereignty is now table stakes for cloud strategy. That’s why we’re pleased that Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester

For early-stage open-source projects, the “Getting started” guide is often the first real interaction a developer has with the project. If a command fails, an output doesn’t match, or a step is unclear, most users won’t file a bug report—they will just move on. Drasi, a CNCF sand

In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. March 03 18:59 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 10 minutes) On March 3, 2026, between 18:46 and 20:09 UTC, GitHub experienced a period of degraded availability impacting github.com, the G

We’re introducing regional level consolidated maintenance notifications for Azure Database for PostgreSQL to simplify how you stay informed about upcoming maintenance. Instead of one notification per server, now you receive a single notification per regio

PgBouncer 1.25.1 is now generally available in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. As a built-in connection pooling feature, PgBouncer helps you scale to thousands of connections with low overhead by efficiently managing idle and short-lived connections.With t

AKS now surfaces observability data powered by Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus directly within Namespace and Workload views, making it easier to:Monitor cluster and workload healthTroubleshoot pending or failed podsAnalyze resource utilizatio

Azure Migrate now supports assessments for Azure Files, allowing customers and partners to efficiently plan migrations of on-premises SMB and NFS file shares (Windows and Linux) to Azure Files. This feature enables discovery of file shares, visibility int

Everyone’s favorite global developer event is back for another year of learning, connection, building, and donuts. We hope you’re excited to join us at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29. Of course, you don’t just have to be in attendance

In this article Why ROI from AI is now a top business priorityAI cost management: Strategic considerationsUsage patterns are variableAI workloads tend to rely on specialized infrastructureAI initiatives frequently span teams and stagesAI cost optimization vs. cloud cost optimizat

Since the release of ChatGPT as the first large language model in 2022, much of the conversation around AI and the future of work has focused heavily on what automation might eliminate: jobs, tasks, and early-career opportunities. But new research from SAP and Wakefield* suggests

Learn how Reflex, together with First Distribution and Virtuozzo, modernized its cloud platform with self-service, lower costs, and scalable infrastructure to drive growth across Africa.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) now supports NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU-based Azure Virtual Machine SKUs, enabling customers to run large-scale AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads on a fully managed OpenShift service. This upd

I’m excited to announce Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). More than a decade ago, as an AWS trainer, I spent countless hours explaining the fundamental differences between object st

Organizations that use HTTP proxies to control outbound traffic often need to change or remove those settings as network requirements evolve, which can be disruptive in running clusters. Azure Kubernetes Service allows administrators to disable HTTP proxy

Developers building MCP servers on Azure Functions can expose tools but not resources. Now, Azure Functions supports MCP resource triggers, enabling developers to expose resources directly from an Azure Functions–hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

When clusters exhaust available pod IP addresses, teams have historically been forced to rebuild environments to restore capacity, creating operational disruption. Pod CIDR expansion allows overlay‑based AKS clusters to increase their pod IP range in plac

If I told you that your existing customer base could ignite your growth for the year, would you believe me? Veeam is seeing success and results, such as increased ARR and higher retention. And the best part? Organizations remain resilient against any threat. For our valued partne

Meaningful innovations rarely announce themselves. More often, they are built into how an organization runs, absorbed into its operations, its culture, its sense of what’s possible. They quietly perform, deliberately building toward outcomes that matter long before anyone is watc

The volume of Microsoft 365 data is exploding as the popularity of the productivity suite increases. With Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Outlook and OneDrive, users are producing massive volumes of documents, conversations and shared files every day.

Acronis MDR by Acronis TRU is now available worldwide, giving MSPs access to a 24/7 Acronis-delivered SOC service that combines detection, response, recovery and reporting — all in a single, MSP-ready platform.

Key Takeaways: Ransomware is on the rise. Nearly 69 percent of organizations faced a ransomware incident in 2024–2025 (Veeam Risk to Resilience Report 2025). Traditional backups recover data but cannot detect active threats. Attackers now run slow, stealth campaigns that evade re

When you ask a coding agent to build a data pipeline, it may not use the best structure. But what if the agent got a second opinion before it executed the plan? Today, in GitHub Copilot CLI, we’re introducing Rubber Duck in experimental mode. Rubber Duck leverages a second

Network Security Perimeter (NSP) support for Azure Service Bus is now generally available. Network Security Perimeter creates a logical network boundary around your Service Bus namespaces and other Azure PaaS resources, blocking unauthorized public access

Last week, I visited AWS Hong Kong User Group with my team. Hong Kong has a small but strong community, and their energy and passion are high. They recently started a new AI user group, and we hope more people will join. I was able to strengthen my bond with the community through

Rule impact analysis on Azure Network Watcher enables you to preview the impact of security admin rules before applying them to your environment. This feature helps you validate rule behavior, identify potential conflicts, and ensure that connectivity req

Synology positions its portfolio squarely around NAS and data protection for business use. Their own backup guidance makes the point clearly: local copies alone are not enough, and off-site protection remains essential to reduce exposure to theft, disaster and single points of fa

If you’re running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 today, you’ve already made the most important decision in SaaS protection: you built independent backups because you know “cloud” doesn’t automatically mean “recoverable”. What’s chan

Learn how data sovereignty laws impact backup and disaster recovery. Discover risks of cross-border backups and how to build a compliant strategy.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, a new capability that enables centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an organization. With this new capability, y

When you’re choosing a backup and data protection platform, you’re not just buying software. You’re choosing peace of mind knowing your company’s data is protected, and you’re setting the standard for what happens next: How confidently your team responds when an incident hits, ho

Best antivirus for Windows 11: Guide to choosing the right protection

Define what OT security is, how it differs from IT security, and how to protect industrial control systems from ransomware and cyberthreats.

Pull requests are the beating heart of GitHub. As engineers, this is where we spend a good portion of our time. And at GitHub’s scale—where pull requests can range from tiny one-line fixes to changes spanning thousands of files and millions of lines—the pull req

Learn how MTCR (Mean Time to Clean Recovery) differs from MTTR, why attackers target backups, and how to build a ransomware-resilient recovery strategy.

Starting March 31, 2027, Python applications hosted on Azure App Service on Windows and Azure Functions on Windows will no longer run. After this date: Your application configuration and content will remain intact Your apps will stop running

AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) for Azure Blob storage accounts will enter retirement in March 2027. Customers leveraging AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) should transition to Standard endpoints for all new and existing blob storage account deployments b

Today, we’re announcing managed daemon support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances. This new capability extends the managed instances experience we introduced in September 2025, by giving platform engineers independent control over software agents

Learn what’s new in Copilot Studio: Multi-agent systems are now generally available, plus recent updates to the Prompt Editor and governance controls.

Service Fabric will end support for all clusters running on Windows Server 2022 on March 31, 2027. Customers must upgrade to Windows Server 2025 by this date to remain in a supported state. This change aligns Service Fabric’s Windows OS image support mode

Service Fabric will end support for all clusters running on Windows Server 2019 on March 31, 2027. Customers must upgrade to Windows Server 2025 by this date to remain in a supported state. This change aligns Service Fabric’s Windows OS image support mode

Over the past year, a new pattern has emerged in attacks on the open source supply chain. Attackers are focusing on exfiltrating secrets (like API keys) in order to both publish malicious packages from an attacker-controlled machine as well as gain access to more projects in orde

You can now deliver dynamic configuration directly to client-side applications—securely and at CDN scale—thanks to Azure App Configuration’s integration with Azure Front Door. This delivers new flexibility for modern apps and unlocks a critical capability

Azure Data Box now automatically generates a downloadable Secure Erasure Certificate for every completed order, providing verification that all data on the device has been securely erased in accordance with NIST 800-88 Revision 2 standards. The certific

Azure Data Box now supports ingestion of data into Azure Files Provisioned v2 storage accounts. Azure Files Provisioned v2 is a billing model where customers provision and pay for specific capacity, IOPS, and throughput values; giving greater flexibility

QoS update with cool access enabled on Premium and Ultra service levels improves how Azure NetApp Files balances performance and cost for mixed hot and cool workloads. Throughput automatically adjusts as data moves to cool storage, maintaining hot‑tier pe

On March 20, 2029, Microsoft will retire the following eight Azure AI Language features: Key Phrase ExtractionSentiment Analysis and Opinion MiningCustom Text ClassificationConversational Language Understanding (CLU)Custom Question Answering (CQA)Orchestr

This blog post is the second part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform—from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency. Disruption should not be treated as

SAP has been recognized as a Leader for the 12th consecutive year in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems.* Reduce complexity, increase efficiency, and improve agility for a more sustainable, risk-resilient supply chain Learn how We belie

What if GitHub Copilot CLI could work on five files at the same time instead of one? That’s where /fleet comes in. /fleet is a slash command in Copilot CLI that enables Copilot to simultaneously work with multiple subagents in parallel. Instead of working through tasks sequ

Last week, the Executive Board of SAP SE announced the 2025 winners of the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award, the company’s most prestigious employee recognition. Named after SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner, the award honors teams whose innovation, collaboration, and execution create

As many of you are, I’m a parent. And like you, I think about the world I’m building for my children. That’s part of why today’s launch matters for many of us. I’m excited to announce the launch of the AWS Sustainability console, a standalone service that consolidates all AWS sus

You can’t turn on the news without hearing about a new cybersecurity, malware, or ransomware attack. These attacks are growing more frequent and smarter, leaving a devastating amount of damage to companies’ profits and reputations. We no longer just talk about if an attack

As governments and regulated industries continue their digital transformation, one requirement consistently rises to the top: the ability to run mission critical workloads where data originates, while maintaining sovereignty, resilience, and control. Build sovereign edge solution

I may have just automated myself into a completely different job… This is a familiar pattern among software engineers, who often, through inspiration, frustration, or sometimes even laziness, build systems to remove toil and focus on more creative work. We then end up owni

Nearly every enterprise leader today thinks about how to leverage AI to accelerate business outcomes—where to get started is another matter. A great way to break through that roadblock is to listen to leaders who jumped in early to use AI to transform outcomes. Eli Lambert, a&nbs

Discover what’s new in Virtuozzo Infrastructure 7.3, including GPU usage metering, VM migration visibility and control, S3 multi-tenancy, object tagging, and storage performance improvements.

Digital sovereignty is no longer a theoretical debate or a narrow compliance exercise. For leaders across governments, regulated industries, and critical infrastructure sectors, it has become a practical leadership discipline grounded in risk management, continuity planning, and

Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase where you’ll learn foundatio

Enterprise digital transformation is entering a new phase. The challenge is no longer just connecting systems. It is about making those systems intelligent, able to reason, respond, and act in real time across the business. As AI moves from experimentation into production, a clea

Welcome back to GitHub for Beginners, season three! So far this year, we’ve covered GitHub Issues and Projects, as well as GitHub Actions. This time around, we’re going to be talking a little bit about security, and what tools GitHub provides to help you keep your cod

Today, Copilot Cowork—designed for long-running, multi-step work in Microsoft 365—is available via the Frontier program.

In some of the world’s most dangerous industrial environments, including oil refineries, offshore wind platforms, cement plants, and chemical facilities, human access is often limited, risky, or prohibitively expensive.  ANYbotics, a Swiss robotics company, has stepped into

MILAN —  SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Campari Group has successfully gone live with SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions, marking a major milestone in its digital transformation journey. Run core operations with confidence using ready-to-run enterprise resour

Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this cycle! Please note that this information reflects

WALLDORF & REDWOOD CITY— SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and Reltio Inc. today announced that SAP has agreed to acquire Reltio, a leading master data management (MDM) software provider, to help customers make their SAP and non-SAP enterprise data AI-ready. Terms of the deal were

In August 2025, we introduced AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) capability to tailor user interfaces (UIs) to meet your specific needs and complete your tasks efficiently. With this capability, your account administrator can customize some UI component of AWS Managemen

Why this matters right now Software supply chain attacks aren’t slowing down. Over the past year, incidents targeting projects like tj-actions/changed-files, Nx, and  trivy-action show a clear pattern: attackers are targeting CI/CD automation itself, not just the softw

SAP is expanding its collaboration with UnternehmerTUM (UTUM), Europe’s leading center for entrepreneurship and innovation based at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). One of the latest outcomes of this collaboration is SafetyGuard, a prototype for automated safety inspecti

At re:Invent 2025, Colin Lazier, vice president of databases at AWS, emphasized the importance of building at the speed of an idea—enabling rapid progress from concept to running application. Customers can already create production-ready Amazon DynamoDB tables and Amazon Aurora D

The world is racing to meet a historic surge in power demand with an infrastructure pipeline built for the analog age. Driven by the exponential expansion of digital technologies and the reindustrialization of supply chains, the mandate for always-on, carbon-free power is urgent

There’s a pattern in how complex technology matures. Early on, teams make their own choices: different tools, different abstractions, different ways of reasoning about failure. It looks like flexibility but at scale it reveals itself as fragmentation. The fix is never just more c

Hello! I’m Daniel Abib, and this is my first AWS Weekly Roundup. I’m a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, focused on the generative AI and Amazon Bedrock. With over 28 years of experience in solution architecture, software development, and cloud architecture, I help St

With the Ingress-NGINX retirement scheduled for March 2026, the Kubernetes networking landscape is at a turning point. For most organizations, the question isn't whether to migrate to Gateway API, but how to do so safely. Migrating from Ingress to Gateway API is a fundamental shi

The landscape of artificial intelligence is undergoing a massive architectural shift. In the early days of generative AI, interacting with a model was often treated as a transient, stateless function call: a request that spun up, executed for perhaps 50 milliseconds, and terminat

AWS has reached its 20th anniversary! With a steady pace of innovation, AWS has grown to offer over 240 comprehensive cloud services and continues to launch thousands of new features annually for millions of customers. During this time, over 4,700 posts have been published on thi

During production debugging, the fastest route is often broad access such as cluster-admin (a ClusterRole that grants administrator-level access), shared bastions/jump boxes, or long-lived SSH keys. It works in the moment, but it comes with two common problems: auditing becomes d

We’re thrilled to celebrate three exceptional developer community leaders as AWS Heroes. These individuals represent the heart of what makes the AWS community so vibrant. In addition to sharing technical knowledge, they build connections, forge genuine human relationships, and cr

This week, we are excited to kick off SQLCon 2026 alongside FabCon in Atlanta. Bringing these SQL and Fabric communities together creates a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share what’s next across the Microsoft databases portfolio. This year is especially meaningful, as

Every container image you pull from registry.k8s.io got there through kpromo, the Kubernetes image promoter. It copies images from staging registries to production, signs them with cosign, replicates signatures across more than 20 regional mirrors, and generates SLSA provenance a

Twenty years ago this past week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. While Amazon Simple Storage Service is often considered the foundational storage service that defined cloud infrastructure, what began as a simple object storage service has grown into something far l

The community around Kubernetes includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Working Groups (WGs) facilitating discussions on important topics between interested contributors. Today, we're excited to announce the formation of the AI Gateway Working Group, a new initiat

We’re excited to announce Copilot Cowork, the execution layer for Microsoft 365—delegate tasks, coordinate workflows, and stay in control.

Wave 3 marks a new version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, moving beyond assistance to embedded agentic capabilities.

Join Virtuozzo at CloudFest 2026 (Stand Z03). Meet our leadership team, attend the partner meetup, and explore new cloud monetization opportunities.

Twenty-five years ago, SharePoint set out to help people share knowledge and work better together, a mission that today operates at extraordinary scale.

As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are probably present in your cluster today. This blog highlights these behaviors so that you can migrat

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud's expansion of capabilities includes Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local disconnected, and Microsoft Foundry addition of large model and modern infrastructure capabilities.

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

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

This event is your front-row seat to everything new and next across Microsoft 365—with hundreds of opportunities to learn directly from product makers and connect with the best community in tech.

Virtuozzo names Kurt Daniel as CEO to lead its next phase of growth, advancing a unified cloud platform for service providers and software companies focused on efficiency, performance, and scalability.

Learn six core capabilities organizations need to support agent adoption at scale in 2026, from governance and security to empowerment and operations.

Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 7.2 adds security controls with two-factor authentication (2FA) for system administrators and self-service users, plus a set of updates across compute, storage, and networking.

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