News For Dev-ops

Amazon CloudWatch Centralization now copies log group tags from source accounts to the destination log groups created by centralization rules. CloudWatch Centralization aggregates log data from multiple accounts and Regions into one destination account. With tag propagation, the cost, ownership, and compliance tags you maintain at the source now apply to the copied log groups. With today's launch, CloudWatch copies the tags of each source log group to its destination log group and keeps them in sync based on the tag propogation behaviour selected as part of the centralization rule setup. For example, a platform team can preserve Application and CostCenter tags on centralized log groups, then use those tags to scope access with IAM conditions and report centralized log spend by team in AWS Cost Explorer. Tag propagation is available in all AWS Regions where CloudWatch Centralization is available. For a list of Regions, see the AWS Regions table . To get started, turn on tag pr...

Today, AWS Marketplace announces support for launching select Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon Lightsail. Customers who want simple, predictable pricing and a streamlined instance-creation experience can now easily deploy eligible AWS Marketplace AMIs on Amazon Lightsail in just a few clicks. Lightsail instance bundles include compute, storage, and a generous data transfer allowance at a fixed monthly price. Lightsail also offers managed databases, containers, load balancers, and more, making it easy for customers to scale their applications as they grow. When subscribing to a supported AWS Marketplace product - including Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server Express, Ubuntu, cPanel & WHM, and Plesk - customers will now have the option to select Amazon Lightsail in addition to Amazon EC2. Selecting Lightsail takes customers to the Lightsail console with the selected AMI and region pre-configured, providing a path to deploy at a predictable monthly price in just a f...

Amazon S3 Metadata and annotations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, giving you the easiest and fastest way to discover, understand, and enrich your S3 data. S3 Metadata automatically captures system-defined details like object size and source, and stores them in Amazon S3 Tables, optimized for near real-time tabular queries that simplify business analytics and real-time inference applications. Annotations extend S3 Metadata so you can attach rich business context directly to your objects in JSON, XML, or YAML, with up to 1 GB per object. This gives your AI agents and analytics tools the context they need to find and use the right data without building or maintaining separate metadata systems. Annotations share the same durability and consistency properties as the object, move with the object during copy and replication operations, and are removed when the object is deleted. This makes it easy to keep context current as your data evolves....

AWS announces availability of nested virtualization for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Bundles. With nested virtualization enabled, developers can run Docker Desktop, WSL2, and other hypervisor-dependent tools directly on their Windows WorkSpaces, and KVM-based workloads, Android emulators, and nested containers on their Linux WorkSpaces — without needing separate physical hardware or workaround environments. Nested virtualization is supported on license-included (public and custom) bundles, Bring Your Own License (BYOL) bundles, and Bring Your Own Protocol (BYOP) bundles running Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Rocky 8, or Rocky 9 with DCV protocol. Power (4 vCPU) or higher is recommended. Nested virtualization is not supported on GPU bundles, the PCoIP protocol, or Amazon WorkSpaces based on Windows Server 2016, Windows 10,...

What's a PFN? MSIX introduced Package identity in Windows 8. While the familiar package identity "5-tuple" was functional, it wasn't especially convenient to pass through APIs or embed in resources such as files, registry keys, URLs, or XML documents. To address this, Windows defined an opaque string representation known as a Package Moniker . Windows called a related identifier derived from a package's Name and Publisher the Package Family Moniker . These were commonly abbreviated as PM and PFM . As development progressed, Windows quite sensibly required new APIs to pass through API Design Review. The review team (then and now) consists of very senior developers from across Windows, pooling their collective experience to help ensure APIs are polished before they're released into the wild. Eventually, the Package API came before the review team. The review team spent quite a bit of time questioning the terms Package Moniker and Package Family M...

Apple developers can now build and test their applications natively on Apple Silicon in Azure Pipelines. New arm64 macOS agents are available in public preview through the pay-as-you-go GitHub-hosted Agents pool. Starting with Apple Silicon, Azure Pipelines is bringing over some of the agent sizes already available in GitHub Actions. The preview includes the following macOS images: Operating system Hardware specification VM image labels Pool macOS 26 Standard macos-26-arm64 , xcode-27 GitHub-hosted Agents macOS 26 XLarge macos-26-arm64-xl , xcode-27-xlarge GitHub-hosted Agents Running workloads directly on Apple Silicon avoids the overhead and compatibility limitations of emulating arm64 on Intel hardware. It also lets teams validate applications against the same architecture used by current Apple devices and development machines. Pay-as-you-go pricing The new agents use pay-as-you-go pricing with the rate tied to the size of th...