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Microsoft Photos adds AI Auto-Categorization on Windows

🤖 Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered Auto-Categorization capability in Microsoft Photos on Windows 11, rolling out to Copilot+ PCs across all Windows Insider channels. The feature automatically groups images into predefined folders — screenshots, receipts, identity documents, and notes — using a language-agnostic model that recognizes document types regardless of image language. Users can locate categorized items via the left navigation pane or Search bar, manually reassign categories, and submit feedback to improve accuracy. Microsoft has not yet clarified whether image processing happens locally or is sent to its servers.

Amazon Neptune Analytics Launches in Mumbai Region

📍 Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, enabling customers to create and manage analytics graphs locally. Neptune Analytics is a memory-optimized graph engine designed for fast, in-memory processing of large graph datasets, supporting optimized analytic algorithms, low-latency graph queries, and vector search within traversals. It complements Amazon Neptune Database, and you can load data from a Neptune Database, snapshots, or Amazon S3. To get started, create a new Neptune Analytics graph via the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI; see the Neptune pricing page for region and cost details.

AppStream 2.0 Enables Local File Redirection on Fleets

📁 Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports local file redirection on multi-session fleets, extending a feature previously available only on single-session instances. Users can drag and drop local files directly into streamed applications, reducing manual uploads and improving productivity while preserving controlled access to local resources. This capability is available at no additional cost in all regions and requires the latest AppStream 2.0 agent or managed image updates released on or after September 05, 2025.

Amazon MSK Connect Expands to Five More AWS Regions

📢 Amazon has expanded MSK Connect availability to five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Mexico (Central), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Spain). MSK Connect provides fully managed Kafka Connect clusters to deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK and external systems without provisioning infrastructure. Connectors scale automatically and are compatible with Kafka Connect, supporting both MSK-managed and self-managed Kafka clusters. Customers can get started from the Amazon MSK console or the AWS CLI and pay only for the resources they use.

Cloudflare FL2: Rust Rewrite Cuts Latency and Boosts CDN

🚀 Cloudflare announced FL2, a complete reimplementation of its FL request-processing layer using Rust and the Oxy framework. FL2 adopts strict modular phases, eliminates cross-language overhead, and supports graceful restarts with systemd socket activation and the Rust-based shellflip coordinator. Internal and third-party tests show FL2 reduces median response times by ~10 ms and delivers a ~25% performance improvement; staged rollouts, automated testing, and fallbacks to FL1 enabled safe incremental migration.

Cloudflare launches Observatory and Smart Shield tools

🚀 Cloudflare today launched Observatory (open beta) and Smart Shield, integrated tools that combine real-user monitoring, synthetic testing, backend telemetry and prescriptive remediation to help teams measure and improve web performance and resiliency. Observatory centralizes RUM-focused Core Web Vitals, synthetic browser and network tests, error and cache telemetry, and delivers Smart Suggestions to pinpoint root causes and recommended fixes. Smart Shield offers one-click origin protections — dynamic caching, connection reuse, health monitoring and dedicated egress options — to reduce origin load and validate improvements in real time; both features are available to all plans, including Free.

AWS Clean Rooms adds incremental ID mapping for sync

🔁 AWS Clean Rooms now supports incremental processing for rule-based ID mapping workflows using AWS Entity Resolution, enabling collaborators to populate ID mapping tables with only new, modified, or deleted records since the last analysis. This reduces the need for full-table reprocessing and enables near-real-time synchronization of matched identifiers across partners while preserving Clean Rooms’ privacy controls. Use cases include measurement providers keeping offline purchase data current with advertisers and publishers to enable always-on campaign measurement, lower costs, and maintain collaborator privacy.

Cloudflare AI Index: Site-Controlled Discovery and Monetization

🔍 Cloudflare is launching a private beta of AI Index, a per-domain, AI‑optimized search index that site owners control and can monetize via Pay per crawl and x402 integrations. The service automatically builds and maintains indexes and exposes standardized APIs — an MCP server, LLMs.txt, a search API, bulk transfer endpoints, and pub/sub subscriptions for real-time updates. It integrates with AI Crawl Control so owners can set access rules or opt out entirely.

Eliminating Cold Starts 2: Shard and Conquer Globally

🧊 Cloudflare describes a new Worker sharding technique that uses a consistent hash ring to route requests to existing Worker instances across a data center, reducing cold starts. The approach trades a sub-millisecond proxy hop for far fewer expensive cold starts, improving memory efficiency and latency. The system leverages Cap'n Proto RPC to implement optimistic forwarding, lazy capabilities, and seamless context transfer for nested Worker invocations.

Radar: regional traffic views and Certificate Transparency

🌐 Cloudflare Radar now offers regional traffic insights and expanded Certificate Transparency data to provide more granular, localized visibility into Internet health and trust. Regional views break traffic down by first-order administrative divisions (ADM1), showing bytes, requests, device (mobile/desktop) and bot/human splits, and can be joined with ASN filters in the Data Explorer. The CT dashboard, built on prior Merkle Town work, surfaces certificate volumes, CA and log-level metrics, issuance trends, signature and key algorithm distributions, and richer domain certificate details accessible via the Radar UI and API.

AWS EBS gp3 volumes scale to 64 TiB, 80k IOPS, 2,000 MiB/s

🔧 Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) gp3 volumes now support up to 64 TiB, 80,000 IOPS, and 2,000 MiB/s throughput — raising previous limits of 16 TiB, 16,000 IOPS, and 1,000 MiB/s. This change simplifies storage architectures by allowing consolidation of striped volumes into a single gp3 volume, reducing operational complexity for storage-intensive and containerized workloads that struggle with multi-volume striping. Pricing remains based on storage plus any additional provisioned IOPS and throughput; the new limits are available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) regions.

Amazon RDS for Db2 Adds Reserved Instances, 47% Off

💰 Amazon RDS for Db2 now offers Reserved Instances with up to 47% cost savings versus On-Demand pricing. The offering is available for all supported instance types and supports both Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Db2 licenses purchased through the AWS Marketplace. Reserved Instances include size flexibility so the discounted rate can automatically apply across sizes within the same instance family (for example, a db.r7i.2xlarge RI applying to two db.r7i.xlarge instances). Reserved Instances can be purchased via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK; consult Amazon RDS for Db2 Pricing for details.

AWS Compute Optimizer Adds Support for 99 EC2 Types

🔍Compute Optimizer now supports 99 additional Amazon EC2 instance types, including the latest Compute Optimized (C8gn, C8gd), General Purpose (M8i, M8i-flex, M8gd), Memory Optimized (R8i, R8i-flex, R8gd), and Storage Optimized (I8ge) families. This expansion helps customers identify additional savings and capture improved price-to-performance from newer instances without manual analysis. The update is available in all regions where Compute Optimizer operates except AWS GovCloud (US) and China, and can be accessed via Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK.

Cloudflare Uses Global Performance Data to Reduce Congestion

🔍 Cloudflare explains how it leverages the world’s largest performance dataset, combining passive transport logs with Real User Measurement (RUM), to refine congestion control across its global network. Using a new Rust-based stack and experimentation framework, the company evaluates multiple algorithms (including BBR) to predict user experience from passive signals and validate with RUM. Early tests on free-tier QUIC traffic show roughly 10% average improvement versus the prior baseline, with staged rollouts and an early-access program planned for enterprises.

Cloudflare Uses Massive Data to Boost Global Network

⚡ Cloudflare is leveraging telemetry from its vast Free Plan and global edge to refine congestion control and improve routing across its network. By combining passive connection logs, Real User Measurement (RUM) and cross-network models, the team evaluates multiple algorithms beyond classic loss-based and BBR approaches. A migration to a Rust-based stack enables faster experimentation and parameter tuning; early QUIC tests show up to 10% performance gains. Cloudflare plans staged rollouts through 2026 and offers enterprise early access.

The Dawn of the Agentic SOC: Reimagining Security Now

🔐 At Fal.Con 2025, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz outlined a shift from reactive SOCs to an agentic model where intelligent agents reason, decide, act, and learn across domains. CrowdStrike introduced seven AI agents within its Charlotte framework for exposure prioritization, malware analysis, hunting, search, correlation rules, data transformation and workflow generation, and is enabling customers to build custom agents. The company highlights a proprietary "data moat" of trillions of telemetry events and annotated MDR threat data as the foundation for training agents, and announced the acquisition of Pangea to protect AI agents and launch AIDR (AI Detection and Response). The vision places humans as orchestrators overseeing fleets of agents, accelerating detection and response while preserving accountability.

Amazon MSK Expands Express Brokers to 8 Additional Regions

🚀 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Express brokers in eight additional AWS Regions: AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud (US-East), Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka, Zurich, Tel Aviv, and Hong Kong. Express brokers are a Provisioned broker type that deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% versus standard Apache Kafka brokers. They arrive pre-configured with Kafka best practices, support all Kafka APIs, and maintain low-latency performance so existing client applications require no changes.

AgentCore Supports VPC, PrivateLink, CloudFormation

🔒 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, AgentCore Browser, and AgentCore Code Interpreter now support VPC connectivity, AWS PrivateLink, CloudFormation, and resource tagging. These additions let developers deploy AI agents that access private resources such as databases and internal APIs without internet exposure. CloudFormation integration enables infrastructure-as-code provisioning, while tagging provides cost allocation and access-control organization. AgentCore is in preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt).

AWS Research and Engineering Studio 2025.09 Update

🧪 Research and Engineering Studio (RES) 2025.09 on AWS delivers fractional GPU support, simplified AMI handling, and greater deployment flexibility for research and engineering teams. The update adds support for Amazon EC2 g6f instances to enable GPU fractionalization, Systems Manager Parameter Alias support for AMI IDs to streamline image management, and optional integration with existing Amazon Cognito user pools to simplify authentication during deployment. Administrators can now customize CIDR ranges in the CloudFormation external resources template, and regional availability expands to Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (UAE), and South America (São Paulo).

Amazon EC2 I7i Instances Now in Milan and N. California

🚀 Amazon EC2 I7i instances are now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS US West (N. California). Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors with a 3.2 GHz all-core turbo and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and more than 10% improved price-performance versus I4i. Storage scales to 45 TB of NVMe with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower latency variability, and includes a torn write prevention feature supporting up to 16 KB block sizes. The family offers eleven sizes — nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge plus two bare metal options — with up to 100 Gbps networking and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.