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AWS Introduces Free Sandbox Environments for Workshops
AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshops, so developers no longer need to use their own AWS account and credit card or worry about unexpected charges. This has been a long-standing request from the community and removes one of the biggest friction points for practitioners learning new AWS technologies.
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Terraform Introduces tfpolicy, an HCL-based Policy-as-Code Framework
HashiCorp has introduced tfpolicy, a new HCL-based policy-as-code framework for Terraform, now available in public beta within HCP Terraform. It is designed to simplify and modernize infrastructure governance by integrating policy creation and enforcement directly into Terraform workflows, eliminating the need for separate tools and languages.
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AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit
AWS Lambda can now reference deployment packages directly in customer-owned S3 buckets, removing the per-Region code storage quota and raising the managed default from 75 GB to 300 GB. Per-function package limits are unchanged, and UpdateFunctionCode is still required after replacing an object. Terraform provider support remains an open enhancement request.
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Microsoft Three-Layer LLM Routing Architecture for AI Agents on AKS
Microsoft has released a reference architecture for routing agent traffic on Azure Kubernetes Service. It breaks down the issue into three key choices: which model answers a call, how the call is managed, and which GPU replica handles it.
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Cloudflare Makes Internal DNS Generally Available
Cloudflare has launched its Internal DNS service, providing authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks. This service simplifies DNS management by consolidating private and public DNS operations on a single platform.
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GitHub Introduces Default "Cooldown" Policy for Dependabot Version Updates
Instead of immediately opening pull requests when newer dependency versions are released, Dependabot now waits three days before suggesting upgrades, thus increasing the likelihood that malicious releases are identified and removed before they can be integrated.
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Grafana Assistant Expands to More Than 30 Data Sources
Grafana Labs has expanded the capabilities of Grafana Assistant, enabling its AI-powered observability assistant to query and correlate data across more than 30 different data sources through natural language.
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AWS Launches Amazon GuardDuty Investigation Agent to Automate Threat Triage
AWS released a public preview of the GuardDuty investigation agent, which correlates findings, 90-day activity logs, and resource topologies into structured reports with risk ratings, confidence scores, and MITRE ATT&CK classification. It is reachable through the AWS MCP Server, so investigations can run from agentic tooling. Preview quotas cap usage at 10 investigations per account per day.
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Uber’s Zero Growth Stack: Scaling Services, While Optimising Infrastructure and AI Cost
Uber's "Zero Growth Stack" focuses on scalable infrastructure that separates capacity growth from business demand, reducing hardware needs while enhancing service scaling. Central to this is garbage collection optimisation. Additionally, generative AI is integrated into development, elevating developer productivity while introducing cost management measures to maintain economic efficiency.
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AI-Enabled Security Researchers Discover How a Crafted Video Can Provide Attackers Access to Your PC
JFrog Security Research revealed "PixelSmash," a vulnerability in the FFmpeg media framework, allowing for Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service attacks. Present for sixteen years, it affects numerous applications using the MagicYUV decoder. Exploitation requires only a crafted media file. Users are advised to check for the vulnerability and apply patches or disable the decoder if necessary.
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Amazon EKS Adds Kubernetes Version Rollback within 7 Days of an Upgrade
Amazon EKS has recently introduced support for Kubernetes version rollbacks, letting practitioners revert a cluster's control plane to its previous Kubernetes version within 7 days of an upgrade if issues arise. The feature reduces the risk of in-place cluster upgrades by giving teams a safety net to recover quickly from problematic updates.
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AI Root Cause Analysis Shifts from Model Reasoning to Context Engineering
Engineers are increasingly arguing that modern LLMs can already reason through root cause analysis once given correctly prepared context, shifting the hard problem to the pipelines that correlate telemetry. A Coroot experiment across eleven models offers early evidence for the claim.
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How Zalando Built an In-Process Client-Side Load Balancer for One Million Requests per Second
The engineering team at Zalando recently described the design and implementation of an in-process, client-side load balancer for a high-throughput API handling around 1 million requests per second. The result was more predictable latency, a drop in infrastructure costs, and better visibility into where failures actually originate.
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Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a Scored Criterion in its Cloud Tender
Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as complementing multi-cloud, not exiting AWS. Practitioners note the pattern is spreading past hyperscalers to small US SaaS vendors, and that sovereignty claims still require verifiable controls.
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Indirect Prompt Injection Exploits GitHub's AI Agent to Leak Private Repository Data
GitLost is a prompt-injection exploit discovered by Noma Security that tricks GitHub's new Agentic Workflows into leaking private data. By embedding concealed instructions within public GitHub issues, attackers can circumvent security safeguards and induce AI agents to reveal confidential information in public comments.