Technology News & Updates

Amazon CloudWatch centralization now supports centralizing logs based on data source name and type. CloudWatch allows customers to copy log data from multiple AWS accounts and regions into a single destination account using centralization rules. With today's launch, customers can

AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Security Hub is a unified cloud security solution that prioritizes critical security issues and helps you respond at scale, reduce security risks, and improve team productivity. Se

AWS HealthOmics announces VPC-connected workflows, giving customers the ability to run bioinformatics pipelines that access AWS resources across regions and public internet resources through a customer’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). With this launch, life sciences customers no lo

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

AWS Elemental MediaTailor is now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region. MediaTailor is a personalized ad insertion and channel assembly service that enables video providers to serve targeted ads in live and on-demand video streams using server-side ad insertion (SSAI)

Amazon Athena now offers Capacity Reservations in additional commercial AWS Regions. Capacity Reservations give you dedicated serverless capacity for your most important workloads. When you use Capacity Reservations, your queries run in isolation from other workloads in your acco

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,

On March 31, 2029, Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will be retired, and you'll need to migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster by that date. Azure Database for PostgreSQL Elastic Cluster delivers the same distributed PostgreSQL capabilitie

Azure Premium SSD v2 is now available in South India (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 price

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

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2026. Today, Nick Godfrey details his conversation with Francis deSouza at RSA Conference, and how it’s part of our approach to bold and responsible AI use.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter

Editor’s note: ID.me is transforming digital identity security, proving that establishing your identity can be easy. What's more, their platform has scaled to support 160 million members and can support up to 40,000 users per minute.To support services like tax filing that requir

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

Amazon OpenSearch Service extends access to Cluster Insights through the AWS Management Console, in addition to the existing OpenSearch UI Dashboards. This launch makes it easier to review performance and resilience recommendations and make necessary configuration changes, all wi

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

Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is now available in the Query Editor in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, extending beyond notebook experience. With Data Agent in Query Editor, you can generate SQL queries from natural language, debug failed queries, and explore your data through a co

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

AWS Direct Connect now publishes three new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for virtual interfaces (VIFs) that provide visibility into Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session health and route counts. Network engineers and operations teams managing hybrid cloud connectivity can now monitor

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

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers Advanced Metrics, providing comprehensive visibility into your database performance and health. This new capability automatically publishes detailed operational metrics from your Timestream for InfluxDB 2 instances directly to Amazon Clou

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports expanded analytics and data protection capabilities for the Infrequent Access (Logs IA) ingestion class, including support for data protection, OpenSearch’s Piped Processing Language (PPL) and OpenSearch SQL. These enhancements make it easier f

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

AWS Lambda now supports up to 32 GB of memory and 16 vCPUs for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances, enabling customers to run compute-intensive workloads such as large-scale data processing, media transcoding, and scientific simulations without managing any infrastructu

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip: Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here

As ​​developers build AI agents with more sophisticated reasoning systems, they require higher-quality fuel–in the form of enterprise data and specialized tools–to drive real business value. To get the most out of that octane-rich mix, we offer Google-managed model context protoc

For skiers and snowboarders, every moment on the mountain is about maximizing the fun — chasing fresh lines, perfecting a new trick, or exploring new terrain. Whether they're exploring a familiar favorite or visiting a new mountain for the first time, riders want the right info a

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Visible services and Visible Regions account settings in the AWS Management Console. These settings allow you to customize which services and regions appear in the Management Console for authorized users in your account, helping yo

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

A zero-day attack exploits a software vulnerability unknown to the vendor. Learn how zero-day exploits work, recent examples, and how to protect your organization.

Every dollar that you spend on model inference buys you a position on a graph of latency and throughput. On this plot is a curve of optimal configurations, where you've squeezed the maximum possible performance from your hardware. That curve, borrowed from portfolio theory in fin

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

Data loss prevention (DLP) protects sensitive corporate data from insider threats and data leaks. Learn how DLP software works and how to deploy it.

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

AI has made it easier than ever for student developers to work efficiently, tackle harder problems, and pursue ambitious projects. But for students earning technical degrees, these new capabilities also create genuine tensions around learning.  How much should I use AI? What shou

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

Learn what MSP cybersecurity services protect your business, how MSPs and MSSPs differ, and key questions to ask when evaluating vendors.

In late-March 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Configure built-in SQL code analysis rules and severity settings without editing project XML. Use Fabric connectivity and provisioning options to connect wi

Organizations running on-premises workloads often face a difficult choice when moving to the cloud: how to modernize without losing the architectural consistency their business depends on. If you use Red Hat OpenShift, you have a way to bridge these environments without the risk

Editor’s note:  Manhattan Associates, a global leader in supply chain and omnichannel commerce solutions, modernized its Manhattan Active SaaS platform by moving from legacy Oracle and DB2 systems to Google Cloud databases. With Cloud SQL and BigQuery, the company now processes o

The traveling salesman problem asks a deceptively simple question: What's the shortest route that visits every point exactly once? It's one of the hardest problems in computer science, and mathematicians have been working on it for nearly a century. It's also what FM Logistic's w

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

Compare antivirus vs. EDR — understand how endpoint detection and response closes the gaps traditional antivirus cannot, and why modern MSPs need both.

Ransomware attacks are rising. Learn what ransomware is, how it works, and the proven steps you can take to protect your data and devices.

Discover how to respond effectively to a ransomware attack as an MSP. Our step-by-step guide provides you with immediate actions, communication protocols, and best practices to protect your clients' data and minimize damage. Read on to fortify your defense strategy today!

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

Spear phishing is a targeted social engineering attack using personalized emails to steal credentials or money. Learn how it works, why it’s so effective, and how to defend against it.

We're excited to announce that private endpoint support for Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is now generally available. You can now unlock powerful analytics on your operational data while keeping your enhanced network security posture intac

In‑place node pool upgrades can introduce risk by applying changes directly to running environments. Blue‑green agent pool upgrades create a parallel node pool with the new configuration, allowing validation before workloads are shifted and providing a cl

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

We are excited to announce the public preview of Fabric Mirroring integration for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. You can now replicate MySQL operational data into Microsoft Fabric in near real time, without building or maintaining ETL pipelin

You can now stream row‑level data changes—inserts, updates, and deletes—from Azure SQL Managed Instance to Azure Event Hubs in near real time with change event streaming (CES). SQL publishes changes as transactions commit, reducing latency while minimizin

You can now modify the cron.timezone server parameter in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. This parameter controls the time zone used by pg_cron when evaluating scheduled jobs. By configuring cron.timezone, you can ensure scheduled jobs run according to your

We’re excited to announce that EDB PostgreSQL is now supported as a source for migration into Azure Database for PostgreSQL. You can migrate and consolidate PostgreSQL estates from EDB Postgres Extended Server to Azure using secure, reliable workflows des

We’re excited to announce that Google AlloyDB is now supported as a source for migration into Azure Database for PostgreSQL. You can migrate and consolidate PostgreSQL estates from Google AlloyDB to Azure using secure, reliable workflows designed for mini

You can now leverage pgoutput for online (minimal-downtime) migrations with improved reliability and performance. By aligning with PostgreSQL’s native logical replication framework, this update improves ecosystem compatibility with modern PostgreSQL deplo

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

Network observability can generate large volumes of metrics, making it difficult for teams to focus on data that is operationally relevant. Container network metrics filtering in Azure Container Networking Services (ACNS) allows operators to control which

Troubleshooting Kubernetes networking issues is often slowed by logs and metrics scattered across multiple tools, forcing engineers to manually correlate signals during incidents. The container networking agent provides a lightweight, web‑based interface

Teams running GPU‑backed workloads often lack integrated visibility into GPU utilization alongside Kubernetes metrics. AKS managed GPU metrics automatically expose performance and utilization data from NVIDIA GPU‑enabled node pools into managed Prometheus

Organizations running applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters often face challenges with performance, global service discovery, and observability due to the complexity of distributed microservice environments. Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now p

Containerized workloads often require higher and more consistent storage performance without managing large numbers of individual disks. Azure Container Storage integration with Elastic SAN allows Kubernetes clusters to consume storage from a shared pool

Networking issues in Kubernetes environments can be difficult to diagnose due to limited visibility into traffic flows and insufficient context around failures. Container network logs in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), now generally available, provide con

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 34 German national soccer league championship wins in its 125-year history, FC Bayern Munich is one of the largest and most successful sports clubs in the world. It has built a massive global audience, with more than 200 million social media followers, up to 75,000 spectator

SAP Partner Awards – Regional locally recognize partner success in sales, innovation, technology, services, and solution areas within each region. SAP has restructured the award recognition to provide more meaningful distinction, reflect our partners’ essential contributions, and

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

If you’ve used AI coding tools before, you know the pattern. You write a prompt, the model misunderstands, you refine it, and you coax better output. Progress depends more on steering the model than on building the software. As projects grow, the challenge stops being &ldqu

SAP has once again been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), our sixth consecutive recognition.  We believe this recognition reflects our continued investment in a modern, scalable AI-ready integration plat

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

Open source has always been about community. It’s about maintainers who review pull requests late at night. Volunteers who respond to security reports from strangers. And communities that quietly power the world’s software. The reality behind the commits is that maint

Visit us in Chicago, April 7-9, for in-depth conversations, interactive demos, and an unforgettable networking event. Happening in Chicago in April, Nutanix .NEXT 2026 is one of the most anticipated events for IT professionals seeking to explore the latest in cloud, virtualizatio

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

Key Takeaways Kubernetes data protection needs a cloud-native approach to support fast, efficient, and secure backup and restore for containerized applications. “Free” open-source tools can introduce hidden costs: Manual intervention, operational downtime, and potential data loss

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

Welcome back to our ongoing GitHub for Beginners series, now in its third season! Our previous episode was the first of the season, and we talked about getting started with GitHub Issues and Projects. This time we’re jumping into another very popular GitHub feature called G

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

Across industries, organizations are increasingly standardizing on open models to gain greater control over performance, cost, customization, and the security and compliance required for enterprise deployment. Open models give teams the flexibility to choose the right architectur

Every day in the hallways at Microsoft, I hear product teams discussing where agents are headed and how software is forever changed. Many of us come into the office more now, and I didn’t realize how much I missed the in-between moments where natural chat gives us energy—co

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.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to launch OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock as th

This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through a structured framework t

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.

Virtuozzo teams up with Licencias OnLine to help LATAM partners build profitable, sovereign cloud services—unifying IaaS, PaaS, and storage under their brand.

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.