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Amazon FSx, a fully-managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Amazon FSx lets you choose between four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx is built on the latest AWS compute, networking, and disk technologies to provide high performance and lower TCO. And as a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups — freeing you up to focus on your applications, your end users, and your business. To learn more about Amazon FSx, visit our product page , and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information. Post Updated on May 4, 2026 at 06:37PM

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language now supports querying log groups using tags, making it easier to analyze logs without listing the log groups explicitly. In addition to querying logs by log group names, data sources, and facets, customers can now query using log group tags. Tags are key-value pairs that customers can assign to log groups to categorize them — for example, Environment: Production, Application: PaymentService, or Owner: TeamName. With this launch, customers can run a query across all log groups that share common tags. As log group tags are added or removed, queries automatically reflect the matching log groups, reducing operational overhead as environments grow. Querying by log group tags is available today in all commercial AWS Regions. To learn more, see the Amazon CloudWatch Logs documentation . Post Updated on May 5, 2026

VS Code is where many cross-platform and web developers already work, but getting package identity, MSIX packaging, and Windows SDK tooling often meant reaching for Visual Studio or command-line tools. The WinApp VS Code extension  brings the full power of the Windows App Development CLI directly into VS Code. Via the extension, you can initialize, run, debug, package, and sign Windows applications from a variety of development frameworks without ever leaving the editor. Whether you're building with .NET, WPF, WinUI, C++, Electron, Rust, Tauri, or Flutter,  this extension can help you streamline your Windows development process. Ready to get started? The WinApp VS Code extension is now available in public preview on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace . Let's walk through what's included. 🐛 Integrated Launching and Debugging with Package Identity Many Windows APIs — notifications, background tasks, on-device AI, share targets — require your app to have package ide...

AWS IoT Core now supports customer managed domains in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customer managed domains (also known as custom domains), allow you to configure custom domain names, use your own server certificates stored in AWS Certificate Manager, attach custom authorizers , and create multiple data endpoints for your account. Custom domains provide long-term stability of TLS behavior, domain names, and their trust chain for device deployments. They also help you enable separate domain configurations for heterogeneous device fleets, and simplify migration of existing devices to AWS IoT Core. For example, by configuring custom domain names and custom authorizers for your data endpoints, you can keep using the same domain names and authentication methods your devices already know. This means you don't need to update device credentials or CA certificates during migration to AWS IoT Core, minimizing software updates on devices already in the field. With the expansion to the...

In February, we announced how GitHub Copilot can now use C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness to deliver smarter suggestions in Visual Studio Code. Today, we're excited to share new ways to further enhance your C++ development experience with Copilot and get the most out of the language-driven suggestions, by leveraging custom instructions designed specifically for C++ language tools.  Enabling Custom Instructions You can access these custom instructions in the awesome-copilot repo , a community-driven collection of instructions, prompts, and configurations to help users get the most out of GitHub Copilot and tailor its behavior to specific workflows. Specifically, see: awesome-copilot/instructions/cpp-language-service-tools.instructions.md at main · github/awesome-copilot . To enable these custom instructions , add this file (along with any other relevant custom instructions) to the following path in your repository root: .github/instructions/** . Once add...

Reviewed by Sumit Sarabhai Fetching a million rows from SQL Server into a Polars DataFrame used to mean a million Python objects, a million GC allocations, and then throwing it all away to build a DataFrame. Not anymore. mssql-python now supports fetching SQL Server data directly as Apache Arrow structures - a faster and more memory-efficient path for anyone working with SQL Server data in Polars, Pandas, DuckDB, or any other Arrow-native library. This feature was contributed by community developer Felix Graßl (@ffelixg) , and we are thrilled to ship it. [alert type="note" heading="Key Terms"] API (Application Programming Interface): a source-code contract that defines how to call a function or library. ABI (Application Binary Interface): a binary-level contract that specifies how compiled code is laid out in memory. Two programs built in different languages can share an ABI and exchange data directly - no serialization is needed. Arrow C Data Inter...