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Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in new regions - U7i-6tb.112xlarge instances in AWS South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Milan), U7i-12tb.224xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US-East), and U7in-16tb.224xlarge instances in Europe (London). U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TiB of DDR5 memory, U7i-12tb instances offer 12TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7in-16tb instances offer 16TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-6tb instances offer 448 vCPUs and support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth. U7i-12tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth. U7in-16tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and del...

Starting today, customers can create nested environments within virtualized Amazon EC2 instances. Previously, customers could only create and manage virtual machines inside bare metal EC2 instances. With this launch, customers can create nested virtual machines by running KVM or Hyper-V on virtual EC2 instances. Customers can leverage this capability for use cases such as running emulators for mobile applications, simulating in-vehicle hardware for automobiles, and running Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations.   Post Updated on February 16, 2026 at 08:00AM

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Alarm Mute Rules, enabling customers to temporarily mute alarm notifications during planned deployments, maintenance windows, and off-hours without compromising monitoring visibility. This new capability helps eliminate alert fatigue while maintaining complete situational awareness across their infrastructure. Alarm Mute Rules transform operational workflows by allowing teams to create one-time or recurring rules that silence notifications for up to 100 individual alarms around deployment calendars, scheduled maintenance activities, or predictable off-hours periods when non-critical alerts become disruptive. Customers can configure actions for OK, ALARM, and INSUFFICIENT_DATA states, and when mute rules expire, any previously muted actions are automatically triggered as long as the alarm remains in the same state it was in when the actions were muted, ensuring critical issues are never overlooked while preventing unnecessary alert fatigue. This elimin...

Last time, we looked at how to distinguish the numeric keypad 0 and the top-row 0 in the WM_ KEY­DOWN message . We may as well look at the analogous table for WM_ CHAR . Event wParam Extended? Numpad0 with NumLock on VK_0 0 Numpad0 with NumLock off (no WM_CHAR ) Ins key (no WM_CHAR ) 0 on top row VK_0 0 I got the name VK_0 from this comment block in winuser.h . /* * VK_0 - VK_9 are the same as ASCII '0' - '9' (0x30 - 0x39) * 0x3A - 0x40 : unassigned * VK_A - VK_Z are the same as ASCII 'A' - 'Z' (0x41 - 0x5A) */ Uh-oh. The extended bit doesn't distinguish between the two. They both show up as VK_0 , non-extended. What changes is something not in the above table: The scan code. So let's convert the scan code back to a virtual key. auto vk_from_scan = MapVirtualKey((lParam >> 16) & 0xFF, MAPVK_VSC_TO_VK); Event wParam Extended? vk_from_scan Numpad0 with NumLock on VK_0 0 VK_INSERT Num...

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports customer-provided proxy configuration, enabling customers to route browser sessions through their own proxy infrastructure for geo-targeting, regional content access, and compliance requirements. Organizations can access geo-restricted content, verify region-specific pricing, and validate localized application behavior across markets. Customers in regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services can route traffic through corporate proxy infrastructure to meet security policies while automating critical business processes. Browser proxies help eliminate re-authentication cycles due to rotating IPs, while providing stable, controllable egress addresses for IP allowlisting requirements. The feature currently supports both HTTP and HTTPS protocols with secure credential management through AWS Secrets Manager. This enhancement is particularly valuable for healthcare organizations accessing portals with strict IP allowlisting, fin...

Introduction The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) has undergone some important changes in how it handles Entra ID app registration and security models. Here you can find additional details about what was updated and about the new application IDs used by SPFx. These changes have important implications for developers who previously relied on legacy user settings stored through the old application registration model. This article explores the technical challenges and provides practical solutions for handling legacy user settings when transitioning to the new SharePoint Framework security architecture. Understanding the SharePoint Framework Security Model Evolution The Legacy Application Model Previously, SharePoint Framework utilized an application called SharePoint Online Client Extensibility Web Application Principal . This application had several key characteristics: Tenant-specific registration : The application was automatically created in each customer tenant when they began using S...