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🩺 Amazon announces general availability of the SageMaker HyperPod health monitoring agent for Slurm clusters. The agent runs continuously on GPU- and Trainium-based nodes to perform passive background checks, detect hardware faults (for example, unresponsive GPUs and NVLink errors), and mark and replace unhealthy nodes automatically. It supports automatic reboots and coordinates with Slurm job auto-resume so training can continue from the last checkpoint, reducing manual intervention and downtime.

⚡ Azure today released Azure Container Storage v2.0.0, a performance-first update that delivers up to 7× higher IOPS, 4× lower latency, and improved resource efficiency for Kubernetes stateful workloads. The release adds built-in support for local NVMe drives, removes prior pricing tiers for large pools, and is available as an open-source local CSI driver for non-AKS clusters. Optimized for storage- and GPU-optimized VM families, the update also enables single-node deployments and integrates with KAITO to speed AI model loading and scaling.

📢 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available in 11 additional AWS regions, including Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Hyderabad, Osaka, Melbourne, Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), Middle East (Bahrain), and US West (N. California). The fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service makes it easier to collect, store, query, and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Customers can send up to 1 billion active metrics to a single workspace and create multiple workspaces per account to partition workloads. See the AWS user guide or product documentation for the full list of supported regions and configuration details.

🔍 Wesco consolidated thousands of security alerts into a unified risk framework to separate urgent threats from noise. By integrating more than a dozen platforms — including GitHub, Azure DevOps, Veracode, JFrog, Kubernetes, Microsoft Defender, and CrowdStrike — the company applied ASPM, threat modeling, a security champions program, and AI-driven automation to prioritize remediation. The initiative reduced duplication, saved developer time, and improved risk visibility across the organization.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, enabling dynamic provisioning and lifecycle management of persistent EBS volumes for machine learning workloads on HyperPod EKS clusters. Through standard Kubernetes persistent volume claims and storage classes, teams can create, attach, resize, snapshot, and encrypt volumes (including customer-managed KMS keys), and volumes persist across pod restarts and node replacements. Install the EBS CSI driver as an EKS add-on to get started; the capability is available in all regions where HyperPod EKS clusters are supported.

🛡️ CISA, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, released Thorium, an automated, scalable malware and forensic analysis platform that consolidates commercial, custom, and open-source tools into unified, automated workflows. Thorium is configured to ingest over 10 million files per hour per permission group and schedule more than 1,700 jobs per second, enabling rapid, large-scale binary and artifact analysis while maintaining fast query performance. It scales on Kubernetes with ScyllaDB, supports Dockerized tools and VM/bare-metal integrations, and enforces strict group-based access controls along with tag and full-text filtering for results.