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Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling Adds More Regions

🚀 Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in ten additional AWS regions, including Africa (Cape Town), several Asia Pacific locations, Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), Mexico (Central) and AWS GovCloud (US‑West). The feature elastically adds query processing capacity in seconds to maintain fast performance for thousands of concurrent users and hundreds of simultaneous queries. Customers with an active Redshift cluster earn up to one hour of free Concurrency Scaling credits and can control allocation, set cluster limits, and monitor usage through Amazon CloudWatch; enable it by setting the Concurrency Scaling Mode to Auto in the AWS Management Console.

When to Consider XDR: Addressing EDR Limitations & Response

🔒 Many small and mid-sized businesses adopted EDR to address growing threats, but alert overload and limited context can overwhelm security teams. Kaspersky Next XDR Optimum groups related alerts, enables bulk responses, and lets operators block compromised users in Active Directory directly from alert cards. It also integrates a cloud sandbox for file analysis and embeds targeted security awareness training assignable from the alert. For teams struggling with volume or lacking context, migrating from EDR to XDR can improve containment and reduce response time without major redeployment.

Microsoft Marketplace: Unified Cloud and AI Solutions

🚀 The reimagined Microsoft Marketplace is a unified destination to find, try, buy and deploy cloud solutions, AI apps and agents, combining Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource. It lists tens of thousands of offerings and more than 3,000 AI apps and agents with rapid provisioning into Microsoft environments using Model Context Protocol (MCP). Integrations with CSPs and channel partners support private offers, a resale-enabled preview and governance for enterprise deployment.

R2 SQL Deep Dive: Serverless Queries over R2 Data Platform

⚡ R2 SQL is Cloudflare’s serverless query engine that runs SQL directly against Iceberg tables stored in R2, eliminating the need for Spark or Trino clusters. The Query Planner uses R2 Data Catalog metadata and multi-level stats to prune manifests, files, and Parquet row groups so only necessary bytes are read. Execution is distributed across Cloudflare’s network using Workers and query workers running Apache DataFusion, with results serialized via Apache Arrow. An ordered, streaming planning pipeline enables early termination for ORDER BY ... LIMIT queries; R2 SQL is currently available in open beta.

Cloudflare Data Platform: R2 Pipelines, Catalog, SQL

🧭 Cloudflare announced the Cloudflare Data Platform, combining Cloudflare Pipelines, R2 Data Catalog, and R2 SQL to ingest, store, and query analytical tables directly on R2 object storage. Built on Apache Iceberg and open standards, the platform emphasizes engine interoperability and Cloudflare’s zero-cost egress. Pipelines offers exactly-once ingestion and SQL transforms today; stateful processing is planned. The products are open betas with usage-based pricing signals ahead of GA.

AWS Expands EC2 C8gn Graviton4 Instances to Regions

🚀 Amazon expanded availability of EC2 C8gn instances—powered by Graviton4—to Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Singapore), in addition to existing US Regions. C8gn delivers up to 30% better compute vs Graviton3-based C7gn, includes 6th-generation Nitro Cards, and offers up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Instances scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and select sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for lower-latency clusters optimized for network-intensive workloads.

AWS Network Firewall Enhances Application-Layer Controls

🔐 AWS released enhanced default application-layer rules for AWS Network Firewall to better handle TLS client hellos and HTTP requests that are split across multiple packets. The update adds new default stateful actions — drop and alert established — enabling security teams to enforce controls without complex custom rules while supporting modern TLS implementations and large HTTP requests. Detailed logging preserves visibility. Available in all supported AWS Regions.

Research and Engineering Studio on AWS 2025.09 Release

🚀 Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS 2025.09 introduces fractional GPU support, simplified AMI management, and broader deployment flexibility to help teams run graphics‑intensive and compute workloads more efficiently. The release adds Amazon EC2 g6f support for GPU fractionalization and Systems Manager Parameter Alias support for AMI IDs. Integration with Amazon Cognito user pools and customizable CIDR ranges in the CloudFormation template streamline authentication and network planning, while regional expansion improves accessibility.

Cloudflare Workers Now Directly Connect to PlanetScale

🚀 Cloudflare Workers can now connect directly to PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases through a dashboard integration that links accounts and provisions an optimal Hyperdrive configuration. Built on Hyperdrive, the integration keeps connections warm, places pooled connections near your database, and can cache frequent read queries to reduce latency and database load. Credentials are managed securely, including a one-click password rotation, and the integration is accessible from both Cloudflare and PlanetScale dashboards to simplify full-stack app development.

Cloudflare Email Service Private Beta for Developers

📧 Cloudflare announced the private beta of its Email Sending capability, integrated into Workers so developers can send transactional emails directly from serverless code using a simple binding. The service complements existing Email Routing to provide a unified Email Service for both inbound and outbound flows, automates SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup to boost deliverability, and offers local testing, observability, and low-latency global delivery.

Cloudflare Workers: A Year of Node.js Compatibility

🔧 Over the past year Cloudflare has significantly expanded Node.js compatibility inside Workers, adding many core modules as native runtime features. The effort includes modules such as node:fs, node:crypto, node:http, node:net, and node:zlib, plus a virtual in-memory file system and native crypto via ncrypto. These changes reduce reliance on polyfills and tooling shims, improve performance and memory usage, and let popular npm packages and frameworks like Express run more seamlessly. Developers enable this with the nodejs_compat flag and can opt in or out of EOL-related APIs using granular compatibility flags.

AWS Billing: Consolidated Cost Views Across Organizations

🔔 AWS has announced general availability of new AWS Billing and Cost Management features that let customers create and share custom billing views across multiple AWS Organizations from a single account. Users can share views with accounts outside their organization and combine multiple custom views into consolidated perspectives. These consolidated views are accessible via AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets, enabling cross-organization cost analysis and budgeting.

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Tag-Based Telemetry for Metrics

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch introduces tag-based telemetry so teams can monitor metrics and configure alarms using existing AWS resource tags. This lets DevOps and cloud administrators build dynamic monitoring views that follow organizational tagging, automatically adapting as resources change. Tag-based query filtering cuts manual dashboard and alarm updates, and can be enabled with one click or via the AWS CLI and SDKs.

Google Cloud Announces Flex-start VMs for GPU Access

🚀 Google Cloud has launched Flex-start VMs, a Compute Engine consumption option powered by Dynamic Workload Scheduler that lets single VM instances wait in a managed queue for scarce GPUs. By setting request-valid-for-duration (90 seconds–2 hours) users keep capacity requests in PENDING and avoid custom retry logic. Flex-start VMs offer significant discounts versus on‑demand SKUs, consume preemptible quota, run uninterrupted for up to seven days, and integrate directly via the instances.insert API, gcloud CLI, or the Cloud Console. Instances support stop/start to pause billing and an instanceTerminationAction = STOP to preserve configuration when the seven‑day runtime expires.

Amazon EC2 Allowed AMIs: New Parameters for Governance

🔒 Amazon EC2’s account-wide Allowed AMIs setting now supports four new parameters — marketplace codes, deprecation time, creation date, and AMI names — to tighten AMI discovery and usage controls. Previously limited to account IDs and owner aliases, administrators can now define additional criteria to block Marketplace images, filter out outdated AMIs, and enforce naming patterns. These parameters integrate with Declarative Policies and are available in all regions, including AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US), enabling centralized AMI governance across your organization.

Amazon RDS: PostgreSQL 18.0 Available in Public Preview

🆕 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18.0 is now available in the RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of new PostgreSQL capabilities within a fully managed sandbox. PostgreSQL 18.0 introduces multicolumn B-tree skip scan, improved WHERE handling for OR/IN conditions, parallel GIN builds, updated join behavior, and UUIDv7 support. The preview preserves instances for up to 60 days, restricts snapshots to the preview environment, and supports database import/export via dump/load; pricing follows the US East (Ohio) Region.

Preview Amazon S3 Tables Directly in the S3 Console

🔍 You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables directly in the S3 console without writing SQL. The console preview displays table schema, column types, and sample rows so you can quickly inspect structure and key data points without additional setup. Previews are available in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables are offered. You are charged only for the S3 requests used to read the sampled rows; consult S3 pricing and the S3 User Guide for details.

AWS X-Ray Adds Adaptive Sampling for Error and Cost Control

🔍 AWS X-Ray now supports adaptive sampling to automatically adjust trace sampling within user-defined limits. This feature offers two modes—Sampling Boost to temporarily raise sampling when anomalies are detected and Anomaly Span Capture to retain spans tied to anomalies even if the full trace isn't sampled. Adaptive sampling aims to reduce MTTR by capturing critical traces during incidents while keeping observability costs low. It is available in all commercial regions where X‑Ray is offered.

CrowdStrike Named Frost Radar Leader in CNAPP Innovation

🔒 CrowdStrike has been named an innovation and growth leader in the 2025 Frost Radar: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, ranking highest on the Innovation Index. Falcon Cloud Security provides unified, AI-native protection across pre-runtime and runtime, combining agent-based and agentless coverage, shift-left CI/CD policy enforcement, continuous posture management, and runtime defenses. Integration with the Falcon platform’s XDR and MDR and a single sensor for hybrid environments enables faster cross-domain detection and response.

AWS Lambda Code Signing Now Available in GovCloud Regions

🔐 AWS Lambda now supports code signing in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) through the managed AWS Signer service. Lambda validates signatures at deployment to ensure code has not been altered and that it originates from trusted signers. Administrators can create Signing Profiles, bind allowed profiles to functions, and configure whether failed signature checks produce warnings or reject deployments. Access and permissions are controlled via IAM, and there is no additional charge to use this capability.