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Amazon DocumentDB Adds Graviton4-based R8g Instances

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Graviton4-based R8g instances, delivering DDR5 memory and Nitro System improvements for memory‑intensive workloads. R8g is available for Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 on both Standard and IO‑Optimized cluster storage. Customers can modify existing clusters or create new ones via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK; check documentation for regional availability and pricing.

AWS Adds Scope 3 and Scope 1 to Carbon Footprint Tool

🌍 The AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool now reports Scope 3 emissions alongside Scope 1 natural gas and refrigerant data, giving customers more complete visibility into cloud-related carbon impacts. Historical Scope 3 data is available back to January 2022 and can be accessed through the CCFT dashboard and AWS Billing and Cost Management data exports. These updates extend CCFT coverage to all three scopes defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and help customers integrate carbon insights into operational workflows, sustainability planning, and reporting.

Amazon MQ Launches in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand)

🚀 Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (API name ap-southeast-6) with three Availability Zones. The managed message broker supports Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ, reducing operational overhead by managing provisioning, setup, and maintenance. Because it uses industry-standard APIs and protocols, customers can migrate applications to AWS without rewriting code. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now offered in 38 AWS regions globally.

AWS Nitro Enclaves Now Available in All Regions Worldwide

🔒 AWS has made Nitro Enclaves available in every AWS Region, expanding regional support to include new locations across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Nitro Enclaves enables customers to create isolated compute environments inside EC2 instances to protect and process sensitive data and reduce attack surface. There is no additional charge beyond the EC2 and associated service usage.

Microsoft Security Store Unites Partners and Innovation

🔐 Microsoft Security Store, released to public preview on September 30, 2025, is a unified, AI-powered marketplace that lets organizations discover, buy, and deploy vetted security solutions and AI agents. Catalog items — organized by frameworks like NIST and by integration with products such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview — address threat protection, identity, compliance, and cloud security. Built on the Microsoft Marketplace, it provides unified billing, MACC eligibility, and guided automated provisioning to streamline deployments.

Cloud Armor: Hierarchical Policies, Extended WAF and NTI

🛡️ Cloud Armor introduces hierarchical security policies and organization-scoped address groups to simplify centralized policy management across organization, folder, and project levels. The release also includes GA support for JA4 network fingerprinting and ASN/NTI controls for Media CDN, while an enhanced WAF request-body inspection (preview) expands inspection from 8 KB to 64 KB. These updates are designed to strengthen threat protection and reduce operational complexity for hybrid and multicloud deployments.

Amazon Corretto October 2025 LTS Security Updates Released

🔔 Amazon released quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto LTS builds on October 21, 2025, providing new binaries for Corretto 25.0.1, 21.0.9, 17.0.17, 11.0.29 and 8u472. The distributions for Generic Linux, Alpine and macOS now include Async-Profiler, a low‑overhead sampling profiler that captures CPU, heap and native allocations, contention and hardware/software counters. Downloads are available from the Corretto home page or via Apt, Yum and Apk repositories, and contributors can provide feedback on the Corretto GitHub.

Fortinet Publishes First EPD for FortiGate-40F NGFW

🌱 Fortinet has published the industry’s first Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for the FortiGate-40F Next-Generation Firewall, verified under the new PCR 2024:06. The EPD is based on an independent Life Cycle Assessment and discloses lifecycle impacts—carbon, energy, water, materials, and waste—providing procurement teams with standardized, third-party-validated data. Fortinet views this as an initial step and plans to extend EPD coverage across additional models to support compliance, decarbonization, and sustainable procurement.

Amazon EC2 U7i-6TB High Memory Instances in London

🚀 AWS has launched the U7i-6tb High Memory instance in the Europe (London) Region, offering 6TB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs for large in-memory workloads. Powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors, these 7th-generation instances support up to 100 Gbps for EBS and network and include ENA Express for lower latency. They are aimed at mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, enabling higher transaction throughput and faster data loading and backups.

CloudWatch Database Insights: On-Demand Analysis for RDS

📊 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now offers on-demand analysis for RDS for SQL Server, extending automated diagnostics to that engine. The feature uses machine learning to compare a selected time period against baseline performance, surface anomalies, and provide tailored remediation advice. Administrators can enable this in Advanced mode via the RDS console, APIs, SDKs, or CloudFormation to reduce mean-time-to-diagnosis from hours to minutes.

Amazon Connect Adds Automated Triggered Evaluations

🔔 Amazon Connect can now automatically initiate follow-up evaluations when specific conditions are detected during initial Contact Lens reviews. For example, if the first evaluation surfaces customer interest in a product, Connect can trigger a targeted follow-up focused on the agent's sales performance. Managers gain consistent standards across cohorts and capture deeper insights into sales opportunities, escalations, and other critical interaction moments. The capability is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Adds Video, Faster Images

🎞️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports AVI, MKV, and WEBM video formats and the AV1 and MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) codecs, expanding coverage for archival, multi-track, and web-based videos. The service also delivers up to 50% faster image processing to accelerate extraction of visual insights. BDA is available in eight AWS Regions, enabling organizations to process native formats and streamline GenAI workflows.

CrowdStrike Launches AI-Driven Falcon UX in Preview

🔍 At Fal.Con 2025, CrowdStrike introduced a dynamic, persona-aware user experience for Falcon Cloud Security and Falcon Exposure Management, now available in public preview. Built on CrowdStrike Enterprise Graph and Charlotte AI, the console unifies hybrid and multi-cloud asset and risk visibility into customizable workspaces. It offers AI-assisted dashboard creation and executive-ready reporting to accelerate investigations and remediation without switching tools.

Amazon ECS Adds CloudTrail Data Events for Agent API

🔍 Amazon ECS now emits AWS CloudTrail data events for ECS Agent API activities, giving teams detailed visibility into container instance operations. Customers can opt in to the new data event resource type AWS::ECS::ContainerInstance to capture actions such as ecs:Poll, ecs:StartTelemetrySession, and ecs:PutSystemLogEvents. The capability is available for ECS on EC2 across all AWS Regions and for ECS Managed Instances in select regions. Standard CloudTrail data event charges apply.

Google Cloud G4 VMs: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GA

🚀 The G4 VM is now generally available on Google Cloud, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and offering up to 768 GB of GDDR7 memory per instance class. It targets latency-sensitive and regulated workloads for generative AI, real-time rendering, simulation, and virtual workstations. Features include FP4 precision support, Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning, an enhanced PCIe P2P interconnect for faster multi‑GPU All-Reduce, and an NVIDIA Omniverse VMI on Marketplace for industrial digital twins.

Google Named Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape for GenAI

🏆 Google Cloud announced it was named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide GenAI Life-Cycle Foundation Model Software, spotlighting the Gemini model family and the Vertex AI platform. The post highlights Gemini 2.5’s expanded “thinking” capabilities and new cost controls such as thinking budgets and thought summaries for improved auditability. It also underscores native multimodality, creative variants like Nano Banana, developer tooling including the Gemini CLI, and enterprise features for customization, grounding, security, and governance.

Dataproc 2.3 on Google Compute Engine: Lightweight Security

🔐 Dataproc 2.3 on Google Compute Engine provides a streamlined image that includes only the essential core components for Spark and Hadoop, reducing the attack surface and simplifying compliance. The image is FedRAMP High compliant and leverages both automated CVE remediation and manual engineering intervention for complex fixes. Optional tools like Flink, Hudi, Ranger, and Zeppelin are available on-demand during cluster creation, or can be pre-baked into custom images to speed provisioning while preserving the security benefits of the lightweight base.

AWS Parallel Computing Service Adds Support for Slurm v25.05

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm v25.05, enabling PCS clusters to run the latest Slurm capabilities. The release introduces enhanced multi-cluster sackd configuration so login nodes can manage multiple clusters without requiring sackd reconfiguration or restarts, allowing administrators to preconfigure user access across clusters. It also implements improved requeue behavior that automatically retries failed instance launches during capacity shortages, increasing scheduling resilience and overall cluster reliability.

Microsoft Removes Additional Safeguard Holds for Windows 11

✅ Microsoft removed two safeguard holds blocking Windows 11 24H2 installs. The April hold affecting systems using SenseShield's sprotect.sys driver—which could trigger BSODs—was lifted after a security.sys driver update; the feature update will be offered within 48 hours. The September 2024 hold for wallpaper customization apps that caused display and virtual-desktop issues was removed on October 15, 2025; affected devices may see a warning and must confirm before upgrading. Microsoft advises updating or uninstalling problematic apps or contacting their developers for support.

BigQuery Studio updated with streamlined console UI

🔧 BigQuery Studio unveils a simplified, organized console interface designed to help data analysts, engineers, and scientists work more efficiently. The update introduces an expanded Explorer view for easier resource discovery, a context-aware Reference panel that surfaces table schemas and lets you insert query snippets, and a decluttered layout including a dedicated Job history tab. These changes reduce context switching and tab proliferation so users can focus on analysis.