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The agentic era demands a new security era. Our mission is to be the world’s most trusted security partner in this new era, helping every organization accelerate their security transformation with the same AI-powered cloud technology that runs Google.Frontline insights: The 2026

Across industries and geographies, organizations are operating in an environment defined by uncertainty. Geopolitical volatility, supply chain disruption, regulatory complexity, and accelerating technological change are no longer exceptional circumstances. They are the new baseli

Welcome to the SAP Business AI product updates for Q1 2026. I’m new in the chief AI officer role, but the mission hasn’t changed: helping our customers get real value from AI. Meet SAP’s New Chief AI Officer! | Let’s Discuss How SAP Business AI Creates Impact Click th

Virtuozzo appoints Jason Magee and Charles Ryan to its Board and adds Peter Bergstrom as advisor to support global expansion, governance, and cloud platform innovation.

Azure File Sync enables seamless tiering of data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid use cases and simplified migration. It also enables you to leverage the performance, flexibility and compatibility of your on-premises File Server

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces support for Derived Source, a new feature that can help reduce the amount of storage required for your OpenSearch Service collections. With derived source support, you can skip storing source fields and dynamically derive them when required

Amazon Redshift further optimizes the processing of top-k queries (queries with ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses) by intelligently skipping irrelevant data blocks to return results faster, dramatically reducing the amount of data processed. This optimization reorders and efficiently ad

Today, we are announcing Azure Bastion now supports managed identities for graphical session recording. Azure Bastion graphical session recording now supports write access to storage accounts using managed identities. With this update, users have the opti

Azure Storage Mover is now available in Azure Government (US), enabling U.S. government customers and partners to securely migrate large‑scale file data to Azure Government cloud environments using a fully managed migration service. What is Azure Storage

Today we are announcing the release of the Aurora DSQL Connector for PHP (PDO_PGSQL) that makes it easy to build PHP applications on Aurora DSQL. The PHP Connector streamlines authentication and eliminates security risks associated with traditional user-generated passwords by aut

Azure Monitor now supports monitoring applications that run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by using OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and data collection.Leverage autoinstrumentation to deploy the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry distro to workloads or use

Azure Files now supports independent configuration of encryption-in-transit settings for SMB and NFS protocols at the storage account level. Customers can now define protocol-specific security policies, enabling precise control over encryption requirement

Azure Managed Grafana Essential SKU will be retired on March 30, 2027.Customers using the Essential SKU are encouraged to transition to Azure Managed Grafana Standard SKU or Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana before the retirement date to avoid service

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel p

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries now support parameters, allowing you to pass values to reusable query templates with placeholders. This eliminates the need to maintain multiple copies of nearly identical queries that differ only in specific values such as log levels

In my last Week in Review post, I mentioned how much time I’ve been spending on AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops with customers this year. A common theme in those sessions is the need for better cost visibility. Teams are moving fast with AI, but as they go from

AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management services are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. With this expansion, organizations operating in these regions can better serve their local customers and unlock multiple benefits, including faster respo

AKS now supports managed and user-assigned StandardV2 NAT Gateway as an outbound type for your AKS managed or BYO VNets. This unlocks zone-redundant outbound connectivity, up to 100 Gbps outbound throughput, and IPv6 outbound support for AKS clusters.Lear

Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups across opt-in Regions (AWS Regions that are disabled by default) for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. This launch

At Google Cloud, we often see customers asking themselves: "How can we manage our generative AI costs effectively without sacrificing the performance and availability our applications demand?"  This is the million-dollar question — or, perhaps more accurately, the "tokens-per-min

At the University of California, Riverside (UCR), scientific breakthroughs depend on quickly moving from a hypothesis to a finished study. Yet for many researchers, the path to federal grants is often blocked by what UCR refers to as a “compliance tax” – technical red tape and ri

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports IPv6 for both data replication and control plane connections. Customers operating in IPv6-only or dual-stack network environments can now configure AWS DRS to replicate using IPv6, eliminating the need for IPv4 addresses in the

Welcome back to GitHub for Beginners. So far, we’ve discussed GitHub Issues and Projects, GitHub Actions, and covered a bit about security. This time, we’re going to talk about GitHub Pages. Did you know that you have access to a free and secure hosting service on Git

Acronis has earned recognition in the 2026 CRN Storage 100. The annual list, published by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, highlights leading vendors delivering storage innovation to the IT channel. The recognition places Acronis among a select group of technology providers f

As organizations navigate rising complexity, speed alone is no longer enough. What matters is connection across people, processes, data, and decisions. With the SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2026 release, we’re deepening those connections across the HR lifecycle. This release focuses on 

Microsoft created Patch Tuesday to simplify updates by making them consistent and easy to plan around. But with cyberthreats continually expanding in volume and severity, it’s becoming more difficult for any vendor to make patching easy.

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

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—

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

As manufacturers modernize their operations, they face an uncomfortable truth: Cybersecurity-related incidents now cause more downtime than mechanical failures. That’s why understanding the potential cost of downtime is so critical in the process of building cyber resilience into

Acronis has earned new recognition from Info‑Tech SoftwareReviews, with Acronis Cyber Platform named a leader in the Endpoint Protection – Midmarket Data Quadrant. This recognition is based entirely on feedback from verified end users, highlighting the value MSPs and their client

QR code phishing bypasses legacy email gateways by hiding payloads in images. Learn why quishing is surging, how it exploits mobile devices, and how to stop it.

Learn what HIPAA-compliant email archiving requires, why backup alone falls short, where Microsoft 365 has gaps, and how MSPs can support healthcare compliance.

Learn why Explainable AI security matters in 2026 email defense and how Acronis adds clarity with AI quarantine explanations, X-ray insights, and unified quarantine.

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

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

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

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 and network security group (NSG) rules before applying them to your environment. This feature helps you validate rule behavior, identify potential conf

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.