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Amazon FSx Adds File Server Resource Manager Support

🗂️ Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), enabling file classification, file screening, folder-level quotas, and storage reporting for managed Windows file systems. FSRM events can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or streamed to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and used to trigger AWS Lambda for automated responses and workflows. The capability is available today at no additional cost for new file systems across all Regions where FSx is offered; existing file systems will gain support during a scheduled maintenance window.

AWS IAM Temporary Delegation for Partner Product Integration

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduces temporary delegation, enabling time-limited, delegated access to Amazon and AWS Partner products for tasks like initial deployments, ad-hoc maintenance, and feature upgrades. The capability eliminates the need for persistent IAM roles, improves auditability, and reduces setup and operational burden. It is available in all AWS commercial Regions and is being adopted by partners such as Archera, Aviatrix, Databricks, HashiCorp, Qumulo, Rapid7 and others.

Enhanced Cost Management in Amazon Q Developer Chat

💡 Amazon Q Developer now includes enhanced cost management features that let users analyze costs across broader Cloud Financial Management domains with advanced analytics. Users can ask open-ended questions about historical and forecasted costs, optimization recommendations, commitment utilization, anomalies, budgets, free tier usage, and product attributes. Q explores data, forms hypotheses, performs calculations, and shows the API calls and console links used for transparency.

AWS Marketplace Adds A2A Server Support for AgentCore

🛠️ AWS Marketplace now supports Agent-to-Agent (A2A) servers and streamlined deployment for third-party AI agents built for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. The update pre-populates required environment variables in the AgentCore console and adds AWS CLI instructions within Marketplace listings so customers can procure and deploy A2A servers directly. AWS Partners can list A2A and MCP servers and containerized AgentCore Runtime products, define vendor launch configurations, and enable flexible pricing (including free API-based SaaS) to accelerate onboarding. These capabilities reduce deployment complexity and add protocol flexibility to meet diverse customer needs.

Thunderbird Gains Native Microsoft Exchange Support

📧 Thunderbird 145 introduces built-in support for Microsoft Exchange email via the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol, eliminating the need for third-party add-ons in Exchange-hosted environments. The client auto-detects account settings and uses Microsoft’s OAuth2 for authorization to simplify migration from Outlook. Initial capabilities include full folder listings, message synchronization, message operations (view, send, reply, forward, move, copy, delete), attachment handling, subject/body search and quick filtering for Microsoft 365 domains with standard OAuth2 and for on-premise Exchange using basic password authentication. The Thunderbird team says additional features such as calendar syncing, address book support, Microsoft Graph integration and expanded authentication options (NTLM, tenant-specific OAuth2) are planned but not yet available.

Windows 11 Introduces Cloud Rebuild and PITR Recovery

☁️ Microsoft unveiled two Windows 11 recovery capabilities — Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) and Cloud Rebuild — designed to reduce downtime and simplify device recovery. PITR builds on System Restore by capturing full system snapshots, enabling admins and users to roll a device back to a known-good state, including local files and applications. Cloud Rebuild allows remote reinstallation through Intune, leveraging Autopilot, OneDrive, and Windows Backup for Organizations to restore settings and data.

AWS launches EC2 P6-B300 with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra

🚀 Amazon Web Services has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs. The p6-b300.48xlarge delivers eight GPUs, 2.1 TB of high-bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. It targets training and deploying trillion-parameter foundation models and LLMs, offering higher memory, compute, and networking versus P6-B200.

Amazon Bedrock adds Priority and Flex inference tiers

🔔 Amazon Bedrock introduces two new inference tiers—Priority and Flex—to help customers balance cost and latency for varied AI workloads. Flex targets non-time-critical jobs like model evaluations and summarization with discounted pricing and lower scheduling priority. Priority offers premium performance and preferential processing (up to 25% better OTPS vs. Standard) for mission-critical, real-time applications. The existing Standard tier remains available for general-purpose use.

EC2 Auto Scaling adds synchronous LaunchInstances API

🔔 Today, EC2 Auto Scaling launched a synchronous LaunchInstances API that gives customers precise control over where instances are provisioned and provides immediate feedback on capacity availability. The API supports overrides for any Availability Zone and/or subnet in an Auto Scaling group and includes optional asynchronous retries to help reach desired capacity. It is available now in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage. Use the AWS CLI or SDKs to get started.

Google Cloud launches 30-day Cloud SQL free trial edition

🚀 Google Cloud today announced a 30-day free trial for Cloud SQL, offering preconfigured MySQL and PostgreSQL instances to evaluate enterprise-grade features without upfront commitment. The trial exposes Performance, High Availability, and Data Cache capabilities and mirrors production-oriented SKUs (Enterprise and Enterprise Plus). Users can one-click upgrade to paid instances at any time; after 30 days instances are suspended and kept stopped for an additional 90 days at no charge. The offer is available in all Google Cloud regions.

TimesFM Integration Brings Forecasting to BigQuery

🕒 Google is integrating the TimesFM time-series foundation model into BigQuery and AlloyDB, enabling zero-shot forecasting on customer data without retraining. AI.FORECAST and AI.EVALUATE are now Generally Available in BigQuery, while AI.DETECT_ANOMALIES is in public preview. TimesFM 2.5 offers improved accuracy and lower latency, supports dynamic context windows up to 15K, and can return historical data with forecasts. AlloyDB preview lets users call TimesFM endpoints hosted on Vertex AI so operational data can be forecasted in-place, preserving data residency and reducing export overhead.

Microsoft Databases and Fabric: Unified AI Data Estate

🧠 Microsoft details a broad expansion of its database portfolio and deeper integration with Microsoft Fabric to simplify data architectures and accelerate AI. Key launches include general availability of SQL Server 2025, GA of Azure DocumentDB (MongoDB-compatible), the preview of Azure HorizonDB, and Fabric-hosted SaaS databases for SQL and Cosmos DB. OneLake mirroring, Fabric IQ semantic modeling, expanded agent capabilities, and partner integrations (SAP, Salesforce, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt) are positioned to deliver zero-ETL analytics and operational AI at scale.

Azure Introduces Copilot Agents and AI Infrastructure

🚀 At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft unveiled a suite of Azure infrastructure and AI operational innovations built for scale, reliability, and security. Azure Copilot introduces an agentic operations model with six specialized agents—migration, deployment, optimization, observability, resiliency, and troubleshooting—designed to automate routine cloud management while enforcing RBAC and policy. The release also highlights new AI datacenter architecture (Fairwater), deployment of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs at scale, and platform improvements like Azure Boost and AKS Automatic to accelerate performance and reduce operational overhead.

Ambient and Autonomous Security for the Agentic Era

🛡️ At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft set out an ambient, autonomous security approach for the emerging agentic era and announced a suite of tools to observe, secure, and govern AI agents and apps. The centerpiece is Microsoft Agent 365, a control plane providing an Entra-based registry, access controls, visualization, and integrations with Defender, Entra, and Purview to detect prompt-injection, prevent leakage, and enable auditing. Microsoft also expanded platform protections, enhanced Copilot data controls in Purview, and positioned Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot as agentic security pillars for detection and response.

Gemini 3 Brings Multimodal and Agentic AI to Enterprise

🤖 Google has made Gemini 3 available to enterprises and developers via Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI, bringing advanced multimodal reasoning and agentic capabilities to production teams. The model can analyze text, images, video, audio, and code together, supports a 1M-token context window, and improves frontend generation, legacy code migration, and long-running tool orchestration. Early partners report faster diagnostics, richer UI prototypes, and more reliable automation across business workflows.

Amazon Polly adds five voices and three Asia Pacific regions

🎧 Amazon Polly now offers five new Generative TTS voices—Austrian German (Hannah), Irish English (Niamh), Brazilian Portuguese (Camila), Belgian Dutch (Lisa), and Korean (Seoyeon)—bringing the Generative engine to thirty-one voices across twenty locales. The Generative engine is generally available in three new Asia Pacific regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and all Generative voices are now available in US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt), and US West (Oregon). These updates expand Amazon Polly's managed text-to-speech capabilities for conversational AI and speech content creation.

AWS EC2 I7ie Instances Arrive in Singapore Region Now

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 I7ie instances in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Designed for large storage I/O–intensive workloads, I7ie pairs 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors with 3rd‑generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver up to 40% better compute and up to 65% improved real‑time storage performance versus I3en. Instances support up to 120 TB local NVMe density, up to twice the vCPU and memory of prior generations, nine size options, and up to 100 Gbps networking with 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.

Amazon RDS Adds R8gd and M8gd for Optimized Reads Now

🚀 Amazon RDS now supports R8gd and M8gd instances for Optimized Reads on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, offering improved price-performance. Optimized Reads uses local NVMe-based SSDs to store ephemeral data (temporary tables and evicted pages) to reduce network I/O and boost read latency and throughput. AWS reports up to 165% better throughput and up to 120% better price-performance on R8gd versus R6g for Aurora PostgreSQL. These instances are available in select US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions and can be enabled via the Console, CLI, or SDK.

AWS Transfer Family Terraform Module Adds Malware Scanning

🛡️ AWS has updated the Transfer Family Terraform module to support automated malware scanning workflows for files transferred to S3. The module provisions GuardDuty S3 Protection–based scan pipelines, dynamic routing based on results, and threat notifications in a single deployment. It preserves folder structure, allows granular S3 prefix targeting, and helps ensure only verified clean files reach applications and data lakes.

Fortinet and CSI Launch Global Cybercrime Bounty Program

🛡️ Fortinet and Crime Stoppers International (CSI) have launched the Cybercrime Bounty program, a global initiative enabling secure, anonymous reporting of cybercriminal activity. Validated reports will feed Fortinet’s threat intelligence to support law enforcement investigations and potential prosecutions. The program scales deterrence by combining community-sourced tips with expert analysis, building on decades of Fortinet collaboration with INTERPOL and other public-private partners.