Technology News & Updates

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

Amazon CloudWatch announces Query Studio in public preview, a unified query and visualization experience that brings native PromQL querying to CloudWatch for the first time. Query Studio combines PromQL and CloudWatch Metric Insights in a single interface, enabling you to query A

Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports IPv6 and dual stack connectivity, expanding beyond the IPv4 connectivity that was previously available. This gives you greater flexibility in how your applications connect to your Serverless caches. When cre

Amazon CloudWatch introduces Container Insights with OpenTelemetry metrics for Amazon EKS, available in public preview. Building on the existing Container Insights experience, this capability provides deeper visibility into EKS clusters by collecting more metrics from widely adop

Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces support for configurable job scheduling modes, giving you control over how workers are distributed across jobs in a queue. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and

Amazon Lightsail now offers compute-optimized instance bundles with up to 72 vCPUs. The new instance bundles are available in 7 sizes with both IPv6-only and dual-stack networking types. All Lightsail blueprints are supported with compute-optimized instance bundles, including Lin

Amazon CloudWatch now supports automatic enablement of Amazon CloudFront Standard access logs, AWS Security Hub CSPM finding logs, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore memory and gateway logs and traces to CloudWatch Logs. Customers can set up enablement rules that automatically configur

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, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the existing AWS Direct Connect location in the Datacom Orbit DH6 data center near Auckland, New Zealand. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except

Building the perfect bra takes thousands of data points. That’s why Honeylove isn’t just another intimates brand. We’re a technology company that happens to make exceptional bras, tops, shapewear, and bodysuits. Technology shapes everything we do, from how we iterate garments bas

Today, we are releasing Gemma 4 on Google Cloud. What’s new: It is, byte for byte, the most capable family of open models. Built from the same research as Gemini 3 and released under a commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license, these models move beyond chat. With context windows

Amazon CloudWatch now supports native OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics in public preview, enabling you to send metrics directly using the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) without custom conversion logic or additional tooling. You can now combine your custom OpenTelemetry metrics with AW

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now enables instances in multi-session fleets to stop accepting new user sessions, while allowing existing sessions to continue uninterrupted. This capability, known as drain mode, ensures seamless operations during maintenance, scaling, or system u

Written by: Stuart Carrera Introduction  Building on recent BRICKSTORM research from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), this post explores the evolving threats facing virtualized environments. These operations directly target the VMware vSphere ecosystem, specifically the v

When discussing applications and systems using generative AI and the new opportunities they present, one component of the ecosystem is irreplaceable - data. Specifically, the data that companies gather, hold, and use daily. This data serves as the backbone for applications, analy

With budgets under pressure and resources stretched thin, many manufacturers are left pondering a difficult question: How can we strengthen operational technology (OT) defenses without incurring downtime or breaking the bank? Find out how.

See how Acronis Cyber Protect for OT supports legacy Windows systems, air-gapped environments, and operator-led recovery for industrial cyber resilience.

Learn how to protect OT systems, ICS, and SCADA infrastructure from ransomware with backup strategies built for legacy, air-gapped industrial environments.

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

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Mail Manager now offers enhancements to email security and processing while simplifying email infrastructure migrations. These enhancements include optional TLS and certificate-based authentication (mTLS) support in Ingress Endpoint, and two new

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

Amazon ECS announces Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances, enabling organizations to centrally deploy and manage software agents such as security, observability, and networking across their container infrastructure independent of application deployments. By decoupling daemon

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

Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now supports cross-region inference profiles for Japan and Australia through Amazon Bedrock. With this update, inference requests from Data Agent in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions are processed within their respective geogra

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, 2027, 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

With Cloud Next '26 rapidly approaching, we couldn't be more excited to showcase how Google Cloud empowers organizations to scale smarter, faster, and more efficiently.  Be sure to anchor your experience by attending the Infrastructure spotlight by Mark Lohmeyer, VP & GM of A

As AI workloads transition from experimental prototypes to production-grade services, the infrastructure supporting them faces a growing utilization gap. Enterprises today typically face a binary choice: build for high-concurrency, low-latency real-time requests, or optimize for

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

Import data from external sources (Preview) – S3, Snowflake, Azure SQL Db along with external Data Connections (Preview) in Azure Machine Learning are being deprecated. These features will no longer be available after September 30, 2026. What this means

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

The following updates were made to Azure DevOps in March 2026. The Remote MCP Server entered public preview, enabling seamless AI-powered integration with Azure DevOps without requiring a local server. Security improvements included

Azure Event Grid offers a variety of features in Public Preview – intended to help you better manage large-scale, distributed systems with improved interoperability and control. Public Preview Features: Cross-Tenant Webhook Delivery: Enables secu

User delegation SAS for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues is now generally available. User delegation SAS allows users to create a more secure SAS token than account or service SAS by tying the SAS token to the delegator. This extension of UDK

Azure Event Grid now offers a variety of new features intended to help you better manage large-scale, distributed systems with improved interoperability and control. Generally Available features: MQTT Message Ordering: Ensures in-order message de

Microsoft announces the opening of its cloud region in Denmark to accelerate digital transformation and AI innovation. The Denmark East region provides Danish customers with local, secure cloud infrastructure, supporting local data residency, low latency,

In the first post on the power of multi-model databases to lay the foundations for gen AI, we highlighted how Google Cloud Spanner helps organizations overcome some  of the challenges presented by traditional approaches to database architecture and management. In this post, we di

In the age of agentic AI, the role of databases is fundamentally changing. It’s evolving from a passive data repository into an intelligent, active context hub designed to ground generative AI foundation models and a reasoning engine that drives proactive actions. To power sophis

On March 31, 2029, we’ll be retiring manually registered Azure VPN clients for point-to-site connections with Microsoft Entra ID authentication for ​Azure Government and ​Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet clouds. Recommended action: To prevent disrupt

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in US Gov Arizona (a region without Availability Zone). Azure Premium SSD v2 disk, a next-generation general-purpose block storage option for Azure virtual machines, offers sub-millisecond latencies and exceptional p

In dynamic cloud environments, unexpected traffic spikes or scheduled scaling events can easily strain user workloads. Whether you’re running a retail application during a flash sale or a gaming platform during peak player activity, your business-critical workloads need to scale

As generative AI continues to scale, a shift is occurring at the  intersection of sustainability and technology.  For years, reporting teams were bogged down by scattered data and labor-intensive documentation, leaving little space for strategic sustainability work.  But for thos

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.

Key Highlights: Real-time, cross-system insights and actions for operators and AI agents.  Single conversational interface for daily operations, planned changes, and incident response.  Secure, governed access and no destructive or configuration-changing actions enabled

This year, World Backup Day is even more meaningful as it also marks Acronis’ 23rd birthday. World Backup Day is an annual holiday that takes place on March 31 and serves as a reminder of the importance of data backup and protection.

Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching is now available in public preview for Azure VM/VMSS, bringing significantly faster and more reliable OS disk performance to your workloads. By caching the entire OS disk image on local VM storage (cache disk, resource

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in the Indonesia Central Azure region, expanding regional availability for customers running mission‑critical OpenShift workloads on Azure. This release enables organizations in Indonesia and the br

On March 31, 2027 Azure Monitor will be deprecating the sidecar for remote-write of Prometheus metrics to Azure Monitor Workspace. This is as part of our ongoing efforts to improve reliability and reduce complexity.We recommend configuring your self-hoste

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

As identity-based threats continue to rise, organizations have invested heavily in protecting users and credentials. However, identity is only one part of the equation. Modern identity security now depends on protecting the access plane, such as Microsoft Entra ID configurations,

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

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

Acronis Cyber Frame is a secure hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution built specifically for service providers. It enables service providers to deliver virtual machines, storage and networking while protecting, managing and automating

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

Acronis is hosting two webinars focused on practical, real-world strategies for AI compliance.

Advanced malware protection uses AI, machine learning, and behavioral detection to stop zero-day attacks, ransomware, and threats that signature-based antivirus cannot detect.

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

Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to reformat your entire data estate just to migrate from, say, VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV. For example, you may have years of data backed up by Veeam while your applications run on VMware ESXi infrastructure in support of your regulatory/compliance

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

GitHub published 4,101 reviewed advisories in 2025. This is the fewest number of reviewed advisories since 2021.  Does this mean open source is shipping more secure code? Let’s dig into the data to find out. GitHub reviewed advisories Fewer advisories reviewed doesn&rs

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

Today, we’re announcing an update on how GitHub will use data to deliver more intelligent, context-aware coding assistance. From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro

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

The world’s largest esports organization is turning to Joule to transform how it manages the vast amounts of data generated in competitive gaming. “There’s so much data; I would say in esports, too much data,” said Thom Valks, partnerships manager at Team Liquid, referring to the

WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and Haleon, a global consumer health company, today announced Haleon’s decision to adopt SAP Business Suite to enhance the enterprise’s digital infrastructure and advance AI capabilities across its business. SAP Business Suite: Deliver exceptional bu

The Copilot SDK lets you add the same AI that powers Copilot Chat to your own applications. I wanted to see what that looks like in practice, so I built an issue triage app called IssueCrush. Here’s what I learned and how you can get started. If you’ve ever maintained

The Würth Group, a subsidiary of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG, is one of the leading players in the development, production, and sale of fastening and assembly materials. Connect across companies to build stronger supply chains and deliver on the customer promise Learn how The c

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

AI is accelerating software development and expanding the range of languages and frameworks used in modern repositories. Security teams are increasingly responsible for protecting code written across many ecosystems, not just the core enterprise languages traditionally covered by

Security posture is measured not only by how quickly a threat or sensitive data exposure is detected and contained. It’s also calculated by how confidently an organization can recover and continue operating when something goes wrong. That’s one of the reasons why recovery is no l

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

Let me paint a picture for you. A polished pull request lands in your inbox. It looks amazing at first glance, but then you start digging in, and a few things seem off. Forty-five minutes later, you’ve crafted a thoughtful, encouraging response with a few clarifying questio

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

In this article Introducing the Database Hub in Microsoft FabricGetting your data estate ready for AI with FabricUnifying your data estate with Microsoft OneLakeProcessing and harmonizing data with Fabric analyticsCreating semantic meaning with Fabric IQEmpowering agents to act w

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

Microsoft combines accelerated computing with cloud scale engineering to bring advanced AI capabilities to our customers. For years, we’ve worked with NVIDIA to integrate hardware, software and infrastructure to power many of today’s most important AI breakthroughs. What’s new at

In today’s digital economy, business leaders face a relentless challenge: how to deliver innovation, scale, and resilience without spiraling costs or compromising performance. At the heart of this challenge lies data infrastructure, which is often one of the most critical and mos

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

Twenty years ago today, on March 14, 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) quietly launched with a modest one-paragraph announcement on the What’s New page: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S

Today, we’re announcing a new feature of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) you can use to create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as your data storage needs grow in size and scope. You can create gen

Organizations today face mounting pressure to grow revenue, strengthen security, and innovate—often all at the same time. To meet these demands, many are accelerating cloud migration as a way to unlock greater business outcomes. According to the IDC White Paper,1 sponsored by Mic

Announcing new agents for modernization that are built to scale and designed for control. When you watch a live broadcast—like the Olympics Games or a major sporting event—you aren’t thinking about the coordination behind it. You simply experience the event. Out of sight, special

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

Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues V

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.

We’ve put together something special just for students—a limited time offer that helps you study smarter, stand out in your job search, and turn your ambitions into reality.

Supertron VAD becomes Virtuozzo’s value-added distributor across South Asia, bringing cloud infrastructure, PaaS and software-defined storage to service providers, SIs, SMBs and enterprises in India, Southeast Asia and GCC.

November 2025 was a busy month for Microsoft Copilot Studio, marked by major announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and a wave of new features now rolling out to makers.

Today we’re excited to bring OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio.