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Amazon SageMaker Adds Custom Tags for Project Resources

🔖 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now lets administrators define custom tags that are applied to resources created by a SageMaker project. Administrators configure project profiles to supply tag key/value pairs or keys with default values that users can modify during project creation, helping enforce tagging standards and support SCPs and cost allocation. This initial release is API-only and available across all supported AWS Regions.

Azure Ultra Disk: Performance, Cost, Instant Access

🚀Microsoft refreshed Azure Ultra Disk to deliver substantially lower tail latency, finer provisioning granularity, and faster snapshot-driven recovery for mission-critical workloads. Platform changes target an 80% reduction in P99.9 and outlier latency and a ~30% improvement in average latency. The update raises the IOPS/GiB ceiling to 1,000, introduces 1 GiB billing granularity, and sets minimums of 100 IOPS and 1 MB/s per disk to improve cost optimization. Instant Access Snapshot (public preview) enables disks from snapshots to hydrate up to 10x faster for rapid recovery and scale-out.

Kaspersky SD-WAN 2.5: Efficiency and Reliability Gains

🔒 Kaspersky's new SD-WAN 2.5 delivers improved network reliability, performance, and operational efficiency through enhanced traffic rerouting, conditional DNS forwarding, and scheduled CPE configuration. The release automates complex tasks — from graphical BGP/OSPF debugging in the orchestrator to seamless CPE replacement — reducing downtime and lowering the load on regional IT staff. Additional capabilities such as LTE diagnostics, power-failure reporting, console-port security controls, and support for 2000+ CPEs further strengthen fault tolerance and manageability.

Continuous Purple Teaming for Ongoing Security Validation

🛡️ Continuous purple teaming unites offensive and defensive functions into a collaborative, repeatable cycle that turns testing into measurable defense improvement. Using Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), teams automate emulations mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, safely execute simulated payloads, and instantly score prevention, detection, and response. That evidence-driven loop—attack, observe, fix, validate, repeat—reduces noise, prioritizes real risk, and accelerates remediation. With careful AI assistance and a curated BAS library, organizations can validate controls continuously and focus on the highest-impact gaps.

Amazon EVS Expanded to Mumbai, Sydney, Canada, Paris

🚀 Amazon has expanded Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) to all availability zones in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Paris). EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation on EC2 bare‑metal instances powered by AWS Nitro, and can be deployed via a step‑by‑step workflow or the AWS CLI in hours. The expansion delivers lower latency, improved data‑residency options, and additional resiliency and high‑availability choices for VMware workloads.

AWS B2B Data Interchange Now Available in Europe (Ireland)

🚀 AWS announces that AWS B2B Data Interchange is now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region, enabling customers to build scalable, cost-efficient EDI workloads locally. The service automates validation, transformation, and generation of EDI files such as ANSI X12, converting to and from JSON and XML to support modern integrations. The regional launch also brings the generative AI mapping capability to Ireland, simplifying mapping code development and accelerating trading partner onboarding.

AWS Backup: Support for KMS Customer Managed Keys for Vaults

🔐 AWS Backup now lets you encrypt logically air-gapped vaults with your own AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs). This gives organizations more control over key lifecycle, access policies, and compliance posture while preserving the security benefits of logically air-gapped backups. Support covers same-account and cross-account CMKs and is available in all Regions where air-gapped vaults are supported. You can enable CMK encryption when creating vaults via the console, API, or CLI.

AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16 Adds Log Forwarding and TPM

🔒 AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16 adds a system log forwarder and a new nucleus lite (v2.3) with TPM 2.0 support. The system log forwarder uploads system logs to AWS CloudWatch to simplify debugging and centralize operational visibility for edge applications. The nucleus lite TPM integration provides a hardware-based root of trust for secure secrets storage and streamlined device authentication on resource-constrained devices. The update is available in all AWS Regions where Greengrass is offered.

Amazon Keyspaces (Cassandra) Now Available in UAE Region

🚀 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to run Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and keep data within the Region to meet data residency requirements. The fully managed, serverless service supports point-in-time recovery, Multi-Region replication, CDC streams, and IPv6, allowing teams to scale without operating Cassandra clusters. Customers pay only for resources used and can use familiar CQL to build high-throughput applications.

AWS Deadline Cloud Adds 6th–8th Gen EC2 Instances Now

🚀 Deadline Cloud now supports an expanded set of EC2 instance families — including C7i, C7a, M7i, M7a, R7a, R7i, M8a, M8i and R8i — plus additional 6th-generation types that were previously unavailable. The update broadens compute-optimized, general-purpose and memory-optimized options for visual effects and animation rendering workloads. Studios can better right-size resources for tasks ranging from compute-heavy simulations to memory-intensive scene processing, improving performance and cost-efficiency in the Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered.

Amazon ECS: Managed EBS Permissions for Non-Root Containers

🔐 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon EBS volumes to containers running as non-root users. ECS automatically sets file system permissions on the attached EBS volume so non-root processes can securely read and write while preserving root ownership. This removes the need for manual chown/chmod or custom entrypoint scripts, simplifying security-first container deployments. The capability is available across all AWS Regions for EC2, AWS Fargate, and ECS Managed Instances.

AWS launches regional service discovery in Builder Center

🔍 AWS announced AWS Capabilities by Region in Builder Center, a web-based tool to discover and compare service availability, features, APIs, and CloudFormation resources across AWS Regions. The interactive interface lets users explore Regions, run side-by-side comparisons, and view forward-looking roadmap details to support global deployment planning. AWS also enhanced the Knowledge MCP Server to expose regional capability data in an LLM-compatible format, enabling MCP clients and agentic frameworks to obtain real-time availability insights and suggested alternatives when features are unavailable.

Cloudflare Open-Sources tokio-quiche: Async QUIC for Tokio

🚀 Cloudflare has open-sourced tokio-quiche, an async QUIC library that combines its quiche transport implementation with the Tokio async runtime. The project provides a battle-tested integration for async UDP I/O and HTTP/3, delivering low-latency, high-throughput handling of millions of requests per second without requiring developers to wire a sans-io stack. tokio-quiche includes an HTTP/3-focused driver, examples, and abstractions such as ApplicationOverQuic so teams can build clients and servers more quickly. It already powers Cloudflare Proxy B in Apple iCloud Private Relay, Oxy-based proxies, and Warp’s MASQUE client, and aims to accelerate broader adoption of HTTP/3 and QUIC.

Cloudflare Stream Adds Audio Extraction for Video Files

🎧 Cloudflare Stream now lets developers extract audio-only M4A tracks from videos with a single API call or dashboard action. Use Media Transformations (mode=audio) for on-the-fly clipping or create persistent audio downloads for VOD-managed content. This reduces bandwidth, cost, and complexity for transcription, translation, moderation, and other audio-first AI workflows.

Google Cloud Announces Ironwood TPUs and Axion VMs

🚀 Google Cloud announced general availability of Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU, alongside a new family of Arm-based Axion VMs. Ironwood is optimized for large-scale training, reinforcement learning, and high-volume, low-latency inference, with claims of 10x peak performance over TPU v5p and multi-fold efficiency gains versus TPU v6e (Trillium). The architecture supports superpods up to 9,216 chips, 9.6 Tb/s inter‑chip interconnect, up to 1.77 PB shared HBM, and Optical Circuit Switching for dynamic fabric routing. Complementary software and orchestration updates — including Cluster Director, MaxText improvements, vLLM support, and GKE Inference Gateway — aim to reduce time-to-first-token and serving costs, while Axion N4A/C4A instances provide ARM-based CPU options for cost-sensitive inference and data-prep workloads.

Inside Ironwood: Google's Co‑Designed TPU AI Stack

🚀 The Ironwood TPU stack is a co‑designed hardware and software platform that scales from massive pre‑training to low‑latency inference. It combines dense MXU compute, ample HBM3E memory, and a high‑bandwidth ICI/OCS interconnect with compiler-driven optimizations in XLA and native support for JAX and PyTorch. Pallas and Mosaic enable hand‑tuned kernels for peak performance, while observability and orchestration tools address resilience and efficiency across pods and superpods.

Google Cloud previews Axion-based N4A general VMs Series

🚀 Google Cloud has introduced the Axion-based N4A VM series in preview, positioned as the most cost-effective N-series to date with up to 2× better price-performance and 80% better performance-per-watt versus comparable x86 VMs. Available on Compute Engine, GKE, Dataproc and Batch, N4A supports up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GB DDR5, 50 Gbps networking, Custom Machine Types and new Hyperdisk storage profiles (Balanced, Throughput, ML). Early customers report substantial cost and performance gains.

Google Cloud Announces Axion C4A Metal Bare-Metal Arm

🔧 Google Cloud is introducing C4A metal, a bare-metal instance class powered by its Arm-based Axion processors, entering preview soon. Designed for workloads that require direct hardware access and Arm-native compatibility, C4A metal delivers 96 vCPUs, 768 GB DDR5 memory, up to 100 Gbps networking, and support for Google Cloud Hyperdisk variants. C4A metal targets Android development, automotive simulation, CI/CD, security workloads, and custom hypervisors by eliminating nested virtualization overhead and preserving Arm instruction-set parity.

From Tabletop to Turnkey: Cyber Resilience in Finance

🛡️ Financial institutions face a regulatory shift: cyber‑resilience has moved from best practice to prescriptive requirement under regimes such as DORA, CORIE, MAS TRM, FCA/PRA and others. Filigran’s OpenAEV combines tabletop crisis playbooks with breach-and-attack simulation so teams can rehearse human and technical responses together. The platform synchronizes players via enterprise IAM, translates threat intelligence into timed technical injects and simulated communications, and streamlines logistics, reporting and continual improvement. OpenAEV is free for community use, with a library of scenarios and SIEM/EDR integrations, and Filigran is hosting expert sessions to demonstrate operationalization.

AWS End User Messaging adds SMS Carrier Lookup feature

📲 AWS End User Messaging now offers Carrier Lookup, enabling customers to retrieve carrier-related details for a phone number — including country, number type, dialing code, and mobile network and carrier codes. By validating these attributes before sending, teams can improve SMS deliverability, reduce failed or misrouted messages, and avoid sending to incorrect destinations. The capability supports common use cases such as OTPs, account updates, reminders, and promotions, and is available in all AWS Regions where the service is offered.