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Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work

The organizations pulling ahead are not simply adding AI to what they already have. They are designing for a different kind of software. The post Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources

Amazon Transcribe now lets you encrypt your custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest with a customer-managed AWS KMS key that you own and control. Previously, these custom resources were always encrypted with an AWS owned key. Now you can supply your own symmetric AWS KMS key when you create or update these resources, so the artifacts Transcribe stores on…

Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance,…

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up to 15%…

Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15%…

AWS IAM outbound identity federation now supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) discovery APIs. You can now access the OIDC discovery metadata and JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) verification key endpoints from within your VPC using AWS PrivateLink , without requiring traffic to traverse the public internet. IAM outbound…

The agent-first cloud: why we built Managed Agents

Compute (EC2) opened the front door to the first generation cloud. Agents need something different: compute, inference, and data working as one. We built the cloud that delivers all three as one simple, intuitive developer experience for AI-natives. Every era of the cloud has its own unit of work. For the last twenty years, that unit was the virtual machine hour. Customers came for the compute,…

CoreWeave Mission Control Agent Brings Operational Intelligence to AI Workloads

CoreWeave Mission Control brings frontier scale expertise to AI operations. Explore MCP, now generally available, and the Agent in console preview.

Vultr and VAST Take AI Infrastructure Partnership to the Next Stage

Vultr and VAST deepen their partnership to bring together high-performance cloud compute, Cloud GPUs, and AI-optimized data infrastructure for production AI workloads.

Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization

The best model for your business will keep changing. Adopting it should move your business forward, not send your team back to rebuild the architecture around it. The post Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

The AI Loop: Launch Day Is Day One

The AI Loop is how your models constantly improve. Learn how ARIA, Mission Control, and Weights & Biases all work together to keep your models and agents improving.

What Would RAG Look Like If Miranda Priestly Were the User?

Your architecture diagram is not your resilience

For years, resilience was something you set up once. That kept the lights on, but it treated resilience as a project with an end date rather than a property you maintain. The post Your architecture diagram is not your resilience appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

AI Gigafactory: 404 Business Model Not Found (yet)?

Will OVHcloud join an AI Gigafactory? The national logic, single site, public procurement: why the numbers aren’t adding up yet

The CMMC Phase II Suspension: What It Means for Your Compliance and Zero Trust Strategy

GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

Explore GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Microsoft Foundry, with scalable model options for production AI agents, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks. The post GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Bringing Enterprise Identity and Key Control to AI on CoreWeave

Enterprise AI security without a rebuild. See how CoreWeave IAM and Remote Key Encryption federate the identity and key infrastructure you already have.

Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process. The post Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Agents: One AI-native stack to power your intelligence

Following a successful private preview, we’re thrilled to open DigitalOcean Managed Agents to everyone. Teams can now deploy their preferred agent harness (like OpenCode, Codex CLI) or bring their own, connect agents to 16,000+ tools, and help agents do more work at scale without building or maintaining any infrastructure themselves. With native integration to DigitalOcean’s Inference Engine ,…

Report: The State of AI in Platform Engineering 2026

Explore how AI is reshaping platform engineering, development velocity, infrastructure, and organizational priorities in 2026.

Beyond Identity: Governing the Agentic Enterprise

What AI Can, Cannot, and Should Not Do

Deploy Microcks on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS)

Learn how to deploy Microcks on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster and expose it with Gateway API, Envoy Gateway, and cert-manager TLS.

What to Do When Your Competitors Are Scraping Your Prices

AI Feeling Out of Control? Govern, Protect, and Control Every Request with Fastly

Scale your AI securely. Fastly for AI gives enterprise leaders complete visibility into model usage, real-time cost controls, and edge-based threat protection

Introducing Fastly’s AI Runtime Control: Why Your AI Strategy Needs a Control Plane

Discover Fastly’s AI Runtime Control. Gain real-time visibility, manage token spend, and govern enterprise AI usage securely at the edge.

Knowledge Is Power: Control AI Bot Scraping with Fastly Bot Management

Learn how Fastly Bot Management and ContentGuard help you strategically control AI scrapers and protect your cached content in the AI era.

The Next Step for Mission-Critical Workloads: Managed Databases Advanced Edition

As your business scales, your database shifts from a simple storage layer to the critical heart of your application architecture. For years, DigitalOcean has helped thousands of startups and growing businesses effortlessly launch and scale fully managed PostgreSQL , MySQL , Valkey , and MongoDB databases without the burden of complex routine maintenance. But when traffic surges, data footprints…

The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI

This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Cycle.io Brings Natural Language Infrastructure Management to Vultr with New MCP Server

Cycle.io’s new MCP server brings natural language infrastructure management to Vultr.

Preventing Automated Security Decisions from Impacting Critical Events

Learn how Fastly DDoS Protection's new Challenge action prevents false positives and keeps legitimate traffic flowing during critical events.

Building Metered Streams with MPP and Fastly Compute

Learn how to build an MPP streaming demo on Fastly Compute comparing Stripe Shared Payment Tokens and native Tempo payment sessions for pay-as-you-go agent APIs.

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

Gartner highlighted Microsoft’s unified single-product architecture, flexibility across hyperconverged and disaggregated architectures, and more. The post Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

CoreWeave Leads Cloud Providers in MLPerf® Inference v6.1 Performance with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra

See how CoreWeave’s full-stack optimizations delivered leading inference throughput for NVIDIA Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra platforms

SoftwareOne Joins the Vultr Cloud Alliance to Expand Enterprise Cloud Choice

SoftwareOne joins the Vultr Cloud Alliance to help enterprises optimize cloud infrastructure, improve workload economics, and expand multicloud choice.

New in CoreWeave AI Object Storage: Cross-Region Writes and Archive Storage

Part 1 of 2: Write to a remote-region bucket at local latency. Keep the checkpoints you'd have deleted. Cross-region write acceleration and the Archive tier are now available.

Vultr Joins the FinOps Foundation and Tokenomics Foundation

Vultr joins the FinOps Foundation and Tokenomics Foundation to help advance practical approaches to cloud and AI economics and help organizations maximize infrastructure value.

Intelligence is yours. Let's keep it that way.

Intelligence was yours . A founder’s intellectual property, business logic, differentiation, their intelligence, was once theirs alone. You built it, you owned it, and no tools/platform vendor stood between you and your customers. This is no longer clear. It is starting to look like it is “theirs.” Intelligence can now be manufactured: the models, the agents and the harnesses that drive them, and…

What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience

What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience caro2698 Mon, 09/14/2026 - 10:24 Cloud Insights What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience September 15, 2026 by Josh Garner, Product Architect at Rackspace Technology Link Copied! Recent Posts What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience September 15th, 2026 Rackspace…

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. Discover how AKS, Azure Arc, and Azure Container Apps help organizations run AI and hybrid workloads at scale. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization

Modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their infrastructure can withstand disruption and continue supporting critical operations. The post The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads

Zone resiliency isn't a single number you apply to a whole workload. The useful question isn't “how many zones?” but “how many zones does each component need to survive the loss of one?” Decide zone patterns component by component, use service-managed zone redundancy wherever it fits, and reserve three-zone designs for the components that genuinely require a third failure domain. The post Two…

Built for agents: Omarchy's pipeline moves to DigitalOcean

Omarchy is a keyboard-first Linux desktop built on Arch and Hyprland by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), and its production pipeline, packaging builds, PR review agents, and QA testing, now run on DigitalOcean. Agent workloads don’t behave like a typical web server. They’re bursty and parallel: an agent spins up, does one job, and shuts down. Omarchy’s pipeline is a real example of that pattern,…

Fresh new season, fresh new blog

The OVHcloud Blog has a new look and now publishes in eight languages. Discover what's changing, what stays the same, and what to expect in FY27.

Recap: the OVHcloud Blog from August 2026

Pricing changes, the Exten storage engine, 3-AZ resilience, and a student hackathon: catch up on the best of the OVHcloud Blog from August 2026.

Rackspace Technology Receives ERS Gold Award for Supporting Those Who Serve

Rackspace Technology Receives ERS Gold Award for Supporting Those Who Serve caro2698 Wed, 09/02/2026 - 11:14 Culture & Talent Rackspace Technology Receives ERS Gold Award for Supporting Those Who Serve September 9, 2026 by Rackspace Technology Staff Link Copied! Recent Posts What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience September 15th, 2026 Rackspace Technology Receives…

AI Agents Don't Have Managers

AI Agents Don't Have Managers caro2698 Wed, 08/26/2026 - 10:55 AI Insights Cloud Insights AI Agents Don't Have Managers August 28, 2026 by Craig Fretwell, Global Head of Cyber Defence, Rackspace Technology Link Copied! Recent Posts What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience September 15th, 2026 Rackspace Technology Receives ERS Gold Award for Supporting Those Who Serve…

Public Cloud: Pricing changes as of October 1, 2026

Local storage, IPv4 addresses, Savings Plans: see the breakdown for new Public Cloud pricing as of October 1, 2026, for every instance.

Private AI Doesn't Require a New Data Center

Private AI Doesn't Require a New Data Center caro2698 Fri, 08/14/2026 - 15:01 AI Insights Cloud Insights Private AI Doesn't Require a New Data Center August 17, 2026 By Amine Badaoui, Senior Manager, AI/HPC Product Engineering, Rackspace Technology Link Copied! Recent Posts What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience September 15th, 2026 Rackspace Technology Receives…

Why Enterprise Ontology Has to Evolve

Why Enterprise Ontology Has to Evolve caro2698 Thu, 08/13/2026 - 07:22 AI Insights Why Enterprise Ontology Has to Evolve August 13, 2026 by Jesse Anderson, Software Development Manager, Rackspace Technology Link Copied! Recent Posts What VMware Explore 2026 Reinforced About the Private Cloud Experience September 15th, 2026 Rackspace Technology Receives ERS Gold Award for Supporting Those Who…

Scaleway secures European “Trusted Cloud” services contract with Airbus

Behind the announcement lies a shared vision for secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure built to power Europe's next generation of innovation.

Scaleway acquires Qarnot to strengthen its European Cloud & AI platform with low-carbon HPC technology

The acquisition brings dedicated HPC, excessive heat recovery and industrial simulation to support Europe’s next generation of AI infrastructure.

GLM-5.2 now available on Scaleway's Generative APIs

Scaleway becomes Europe’s first sovereign cloud provider to offer GLM-5.2, combining agentic AI, privacy and performance.

European Cloud & AI strategic autonomy moves from intent to action as leading organizations choose Scaleway

LVMH, Ouest-France, ChapsVision and Quobly join forces with European research and deep tech players to advance cloud, AI and quantum innovation.

Play and Scaleway Form a Strategic Partnership. Polish Businesses 
to Gain Access to Secure European Cloud and AI Solutions

Play and Scaleway from the iliad Group have announced a strategic partnership. This will accelerate the adoption of public cloud and AI in Poland.