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AWS IoT Core now supports customer-managed keys (CMK) through AWS Key Management Service (KMS), enabling you to encrypt data stored in IoT Core with your own encryption keys. This enhancement gives you greater control over your encryption key lifecycle, including creation, rotation, monitoring, and deletion. Moreover, when you opt for CMK, the service handles the transition by automatically re-encrypting existing data while helping to maintain uninterrupted IoT operations. Operating within the AWS shared responsibility model , this security enhancement helps organizations meet their security requirements without impacting their IoT applications. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where AWS IoT Core is supported. For details, visit the AWS IoT Core documentation . Post Updated on August 21, 2025 at 09:23AM

With the release of SQL Server 2025 RC0, we have enabled the ability to use a local ONNX model on the server for embeddings . This allows you to use these models without having any network traffic leaving the local environment. Getting Started This example guides you through setting up SQL Server 2025 on Windows with an ONNX runtime to enable local AI-powered text embedding generation. ONNX Runtime  is an open-source inference engine that allows you to run machine learning models locally, making it ideal for integrating AI capabilities into SQL Server environments. [alert type="important" heading="Important"]This feature requires that SQL Server Machine Learning Services  is installed.[/alert] Step 1: Enable developer preview features on SQL Server 2025 Run the following SQL command to enable SQL Server 2025 preview features in the database you would like use for this example: ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION SET PREVIEW_FEATURES = ON; Step 2: Enable t...

AWS Security Incident Response now offers seamless integration with popular IT Service Management (ITSM) tools like Jira and ServiceNow, enabling you to respond faster to security incidents while maintaining your existing processes and operating models. These integrations provide bidirectional synchronization, allowing you to create, update, and delete issues in either platform with automatic data replication into AWS Security Incident Response cases. Comments and attachments are also fully synchronized between platforms. The integrations are available as open-source projects on GitHub, providing customers and partners the opportunity to contribute to and extend the functionality. The repository includes sample code, deployment instructions, and best practices for building custom integrations with AWS Security Incident Response. The solution features a modular architecture that makes it straightforward to add new integration targets beyond the initial Jira and ServiceNow offerings. T...

AWS Security Incident Response is now Health Information Trust Alliance Common Security Framework (HITRUST CSF) certified, demonstrating its alignment with stringent security and privacy requirements established by HITRUST for managing sensitive data. This certification validates that AWS Security Incident Response meets comprehensive security controls required by healthcare, life sciences and many other regulated sectors. HITRUST CSF is a comprehensive security and privacy framework developed by the HITRUST Alliance to help organizations in the healthcare industry and other regulated sectors effectively manage information risk and comply with a variety of security, privacy and regulatory requirements. It provides a scalable, transparent, and certifiable approach based on well-known industry standards and regulations, allowing organizations to demonstrate their commitment to protecting sensitive data and meeting compliance obligations. AWS customers can achieve HITRUST certification...

Last time, we added the ability to create tracking pointers from const objects . But we discovered that you could not convert a tracking_ptr<T> to a tracking_ptr<const T> . But this should be possible, because the available operations on a tracking pointer to a const object is a subset of the operations available to a tracking pointer to a non-const object. We can perform the conversion by copying/moving the underlying tracking_ ptr_ base . template<typename T> struct tracking_ptr : tracking_ptr_base<std::remove_cv_t<T>> { private: using base = tracking_ptr_base<std::remove_cv_t<T>>; public: T* get() const { return this->tracked; } using base::base; tracking_ptr(base const& other) : base(other) {} tracking_ptr(base&& other) : base(std::move(other)) {} }; If somebody has a tracking_ptr<T> it converts to a t...

AWS Clean Rooms now supports error message configurations for PySpark, enabling companies and their partners to develop and test sophisticated analytics faster in a Clean Rooms collaboration. With this launch, you and your partners can specify how much information appears in error messages for analyses that use PySpark, the Python API for Apache Spark . Code authors can configure a PySpark analysis to return detailed error messages when a PySpark analysis fails, provided that each collaboration member approves the analysis to run on their data. For example, when a code author is testing their code for a marketing attribution model in a clean rooms collaboration, they can enable detailed error messages for faster troubleshooting, reducing time-to-insights from weeks to hours or days. AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners easily analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without revealing or copying one another’s underlying data. For more information about the AWS...

Welcome to Copilot Studio Agent Academy Whether you're just starting your journey with AI agents or looking to sharpen your skills in Microsoft Copilot Studio, we've got your mission briefing ready and it's time to suit up! We're thrilled to introduce Copilot Studio Agent Academy , a new, self-paced curriculum designed to help makers, developers, and AI-curious professionals learn how to build real, useful agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio. No more theoretical fluff. No more "someday I'll figure this out." This is your chance to actually build something that works. Why We Built It Copilot Studio makes it possible for anyone to build agents that can answer questions, automate tasks, and connect across Microsoft 365. The technology is incredible. The possibilities are endless. But here's what we kept hearing from the community: "There's a lot of talk about what AI can do, but where are the actionable resources that show me how to actual...