Technology News & Updates

Editor’s note: This blog post outlines Google Cloud’s GPU AI/ML infrastructure reliability strategy, and will be updated with links to new community articles as they appear. As we enter the era of multi-trillion parameter models, computational power has transitioned from a utilit

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

Amazon S3 Lifecycle now prevents expiration and transition actions on objects that failed replication, helping you to coordinate replication configuration or permissions changes with actions defined in your lifecycle rules. Incorrect permissions or replication configuration can p

Enterprises are rapidly moving AI workloads from experimentation to production on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), using its scalability to serve powerful inference endpoints. However, as these models handle increasingly sensitive data, they introduce unique AI-driven attack vecto

Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy, enabling faster application recovery during switchover by eliminating DNS propagation delays. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment (Green) that allows you to deploy and test production c

Today, AWS Marketplace announces the Discovery API, giving you programmatic access to product and pricing information across the AWS Marketplace catalog — including SaaS, AI agents and tools, AMI, containers, and machine learning models. With the Discovery API, buyers can embed c

AWS Agent Registry, available through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, is now in preview — a private, governed catalog and discovery layer for agents, tools, skills, MCP servers, and custom resources within the organization. It gives teams complete visibility into their AI landscape, en

Cloud Run has long provided developers with a straightforward, opinionated platform for running code. You can easily deploy request-driven web applications using Cloud Run services, or execute run-to-completion batch processing with Cloud Run jobs. However, as developers build mo

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard codecs for index storage, giving customers greater control over the trade-off between storage costs and query performance. With this launch, customers can configure Zstandard compression to achieve up to 32% reduction in in

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager supports tag-based dimensions, enabling you to use tags from your EC2 resources to group and filter capacity metrics. EC2 Capacity Manager helps you monitor and optimize capacity usage across On-Demand Instances, Spot Instances, and Cap

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

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports gang scheduling, which ensures all pods required for a distributed training job are ready before training begins. Administrators can configure gang scheduling to prevent wasted compute from partial job runs and avoid deadlock

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) Real-Time Streaming now supports redundant ingest, helping protect your live streams against source encoder failures and first-mile network issues. With redundant ingest, you can stream from two encoders simultaneously to a single sta

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) managed node groups now support Auto Scaling warm pools, enabling you to maintain pre-initialized EC2 instances ready for rapid scale-out. This reduces node provisioning latency for applications with burst traffic patterns, time-sens

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

In today’s global economy, data is a strategic asset. For many organizations — particularly those in highly regulated industries and the public sector — the ability to innovate with AI is often balanced against the rigorous requirements of data sovereignty, residency, and operati

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 the world of AI/ML, data is the fuel that drives training and inference workloads. For Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users, Cloud Storage FUSE provides high-performance, scalable access to data stored in Google Cloud Storage. However, we learned from customers that getting th

Today, at the Apache Iceberg Summit in San Francisco, we are announcing the preview of read and write interoperability between BigQuery and Iceberg-compatible engines, including Trino, Spark, and others in Apache Iceberg tables in Google-managed Iceberg REST Catalog. With this ne

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

Building and serving models on infrastructure is a strong use case for businesses. In Google Cloud, you have the ability to design your AI infrastructure to suit your workloads. Recently, I experimented with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) managed DRANET while deploying a model fo

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

Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s newest and most powerful model, is now available in Private Preview to a select group of Google Cloud customers, as part of Project Glasswing.  The availability of Claude Mythos Preview on Vertex AI underscores our commitment to offer our custom

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

In a cloud-first world, traditional IP-based defenses are no longer enough to protect your perimeter. As services migrate to shared infrastructure and content delivery networks, relying on static IP addresses and FQDNs can create security gaps. Because single IP addresses can hos

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

Lyria 3, Google's family of music generation models, is designed to give you granular control over vocals, instrumentation, and arrangement. So we  spent weeks testing against every musical genre and use case we could imagine. We put together this guide to share exactly what we l

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 cyber threats.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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