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Amazon EC2 I8g Storage-Optimized Instances Expand Regions

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 I8g Storage Optimized instances in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (São Paulo). These instances use third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB, with significantly lower storage I/O latency and variability. I8g instances target I/O-intensive, low-latency workloads with up to 45 TB local NVMe storage, up to 100 Gbps networking, and 60 Gbps dedicated EBS bandwidth across multiple sizes including a metal option.

Amazon EC2 U7i-12tb Instances Launch in Stockholm Region

🚀 Amazon has made EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of DDR5 memory available in the Europe (Stockholm) Region. The u7i-12tb.224xlarge offers 896 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps for both EBS and networking, and supports ENA Express for improved network performance. Powered by custom fourth‑generation Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids), these instances target mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, enabling higher transaction throughput and faster data loading.

AWS Network Load Balancer Adds QUIC Passthrough Mode

🚀 AWS announced that the Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports QUIC in passthrough mode, enabling low-latency forwarding of QUIC traffic while preserving session stickiness via the QUIC Connection ID. This helps mobile applications maintain consistent connections when client IPs change during roaming between cellular towers or when switching between Wi‑Fi and cellular. You can enable QUIC on existing or new NLBs through the AWS Management Console, CLI, or APIs. QUIC support is available at no additional charge in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions and is metered under existing UDP Load Balancer Capacity Unit entitlements.

From Vulnerability Management to Exposure Platform

🛡️ CrowdStrike argues legacy vulnerability management cannot keep pace with AI-accelerated adversaries. Their Falcon Exposure Management platform leverages a single lightweight sensor to deliver continuous, native visibility across endpoints, cloud, and network assets. It pairs adversary-aware risk prioritization with agentic automation and Charlotte Agentic SOAR to reduce manual triage and remediate high-risk exposures quickly. The emphasis is on speeding effective action, cutting tool sprawl, and focusing teams on the small subset of issues that drive most breach risk.

Amazon ElastiCache M7g and R7g Graviton3 in GovCloud

🚀 Amazon Web Services has added Graviton3-based M7g and R7g ElastiCache node families to AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West). These Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price‑performance versus Graviton2 — for example, running ElastiCache for Redis OSS on an R7g.4xlarge can yield up to 28% higher throughput, up to 21% improved P99 latency, and up to 25% greater networking bandwidth. To adopt, create a new cluster or upgrade via the AWS Management Console; consult pricing and the node-type documentation for regional availability and details.

AWS FIS Adds Partial-Failure Test Scenarios for AZs

🧪 AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) introduces two new pre-built experiment scenarios to simulate partial, cross- and single-AZ disruptions. The AZ: Application Slowdown scenario simulates increased latency and degraded performance within a single Availability Zone to validate observability, alarms, and AZ evacuation playbooks. The Cross-AZ: Traffic Slowdown scenario simulates degraded traffic between AZs and lets you target subsets of traffic for realistic gray-failure testing. These scenarios are available in all Regions where AWS FIS is offered, including AWS GovCloud (US).

Microsoft unveils Fairwater AI datacenter in Atlanta

🚀 Microsoft announced the new Fairwater Azure AI datacenter in Atlanta, Georgia, expanding its planet-scale AI superfactory. The purpose-built facility integrates massive NVIDIA Blackwell GPU clusters on a single flat network and uses rack-level direct liquid cooling plus a two-story layout to maximize compute density and reduce latency. It also connects via a dedicated AI WAN to enable cross-site fungibility and dynamic workload allocation.

BigQuery AI Functions: Reimagining SQL for the AI Era

🤖 BigQuery is introducing managed AI functions in public preview — AI.IF, AI.CLASSIFY, and AI.SCORE — that let analysts apply generative AI directly inside SQL queries. These functions enable semantic filtering and joins, label-based classification of text and images, and natural-language ranking, while BigQuery applies prompt, query-plan, and endpoint optimizations to reduce LLM calls and control cost. They complement existing Gemini inference functions and remove much of the need for complex prompt tuning or separate model selection, making AI-driven analytics more accessible within familiar SQL workflows.

Flexible path to modern EUC with Cameyo by Google Launch

🔒 Cameyo by Google is a cloud-native Virtual App Delivery solution that streams legacy Windows and Linux applications into the browser or publishes them as Progressive Web Apps, avoiding the overhead of full VDI. Paired with Chrome Enterprise Premium, Cameyo brings legacy client apps under a single secure browsing context with advanced DLP and threat protection. IT teams benefit from faster deployments, reduced VPN and infrastructure complexity, and a clear migration path to ChromeOS while preserving critical Windows workloads.

BigQuery adds MATCH_RECOGNIZE for row-sequence SQL

🔍 BigQuery now supports MATCH_RECOGNIZE, a SQL clause for identifying ordered patterns across rows and time-series data. It lets analysts express complex sequence logic—using PARTITION BY, ORDER BY, PATTERN, DEFINE and MEASURES—inside a single query without heavy joins or external processing. The feature targets use cases like funnels, fraud detection, log sequencing, and financial pattern detection, and is immediately available to all BigQuery users.

Bringing Connected AI Work Experiences Across Devices

🚀 Google outlines its plan to embed Generative AI across enterprise platforms and endpoints, integrating Gemini into Chrome Enterprise, Android, Pixel phones and Chromebook Plus devices. The post highlights the general availability of Cameyo by Google to virtualize legacy and modern apps in the cloud and the launch of Gemini in Chrome with enterprise-grade controls. It also previews Android XR and Pixel features powered by Gemini Nano, while expanding data loss prevention and a one-click SecOps integration to help IT secure AI-driven workflows.

Amazon Connect Cases Adds Conditional Field Visibility

🔧 Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditional field visibility and dependent field options to streamline case layouts and reduce data-entry errors. Administrators can show fields only when relevant (for example, display a Return Reason field for return cases) and restrict choice lists based on other selections (e.g., limit Issue Type to hardware options when Issue Category is Hardware). The feature is available in multiple AWS regions.

AWS Security Incident Response: Communication Preferences

🔔 AWS announced customizable communication preferences for Security Incident Response, letting teams select notification types such as case changes, membership updates, and organizational announcements. The update replaces a one-size-fits-all model so individuals receive only relevant updates and reduces notification noise. Settings include smart defaults and can be adjusted as roles evolve. The feature is available to all Security Incident Response customers at no additional cost via the console.

Amazon DCV Adds Support for EC2 Mac Apple silicon instances

🖥️ AWS announced Amazon DCV support for EC2 Mac instances powered by Apple silicon, enabling high-performance remote desktop access to macOS workloads in the cloud. Users can connect from Windows, Linux, macOS, or web clients and benefit from 4K resolution, multi-monitor support, and smooth 60 FPS streaming. Productivity features include time zone redirection and audio output, and the offering is available in all Regions that provide EC2 Mac instances.

Amazon S3 Tables Gain Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Now

📊 Amazon CloudWatch metrics are now available for S3 Tables, providing visibility into storage, maintenance, and request activity. Metrics include daily storage and object counts, compaction bytes/objects processed, and minute‑level request measurements for operations, data transfer, errors, and latency. You can access these metrics via the CloudWatch console, AWS CLI, or CloudWatch API at the bucket, namespace, and individual table level; they are available in all Regions where S3 Tables is offered.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN supports 5 Gbps bandwidth per tunnel

🔒 AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports configurable tunnel bandwidth up to 5 Gbps, a 4x increase over the previous 1.25 Gbps limit. The update reduces the need to deploy complex protocols such as ECMP to aggregate tunnels, simplifying high-throughput hybrid connectivity for migrations, analytics, and disaster recovery. The capability is available in most commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions with a few regional exceptions.

Architecture of Remote Bindings for Local Worker Development

🚀 Cloudflare has made remote bindings generally available, letting local Workers connect to live resources such as R2 buckets, D1 and KV namespaces without deploying. Developers can enable a binding with "remote: true" in Wrangler v4.37.0 and use existing Wrangler OAuth credentials to access production data. The local workerd runtime proxies JS API calls to remote service bindings (including JSRPC via Cap’n Web websockets), and tooling like the Vite plugin and vitest-pool-workers can use utilities such as startRemoteProxySession to join remote sessions.

AWS Adds CUR 2.0 Detail for EC2 Capacity Reservations

🔍 AWS has extended the Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0) to surface hourly, resource-level billing information for capacity reservations including EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservation (ODCR) and EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. CUR 2.0 now tags capacity-related line items as Reserved, Used, or Unused, enabling precise coverage and utilization calculations. The enhancement helps identify idle reservations and attribute reservation costs to resource owners for cost optimization.

Amazon Managed Prometheus Collector Adds MSK Support

📈 The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector now supports discovery and scraping of Prometheus metrics from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters without deploying agents. The agentless collector can target metrics exposed via the JMX exporter and the Node exporter, covering host-level, JVM-level, and broker-specific telemetry. This simplifies open monitoring for MSK, improves availability and scalability, and is available in all commercial regions where the service is offered.

Amazon EC2 F2 FPGA Instances Expand to Four Regions

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 F2 instances — the second-generation FPGA-powered instances featuring an FPGA with 16 GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) — are available in four additional regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo and Seoul), and Canada (Central). F2 delivers substantial hardware upgrades over F1, including up to 192 vCPUs, 2 TB system memory, 7.6 TiB SSD, and 100 Gbps networking. These instances target genomics, multimedia processing, big data, and network acceleration workloads and can be purchased On-Demand or via Savings Plans.