Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports cross-account safeguards with centralized control and management

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, a new capability that enables centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an organization. With this new capability, you can specify a guardrail in a new Amazon Bedrock policy within the management account of your organization that automatically enforces…

Building sovereign AI at the edge: Microsoft and Armada collaborate to deliver Azure Local on Galleon modular datacenters

By Dustin Ward

As governments and regulated industries continue their digital transformation, one requirement consistently rises to the top: the ability to run mission critical workloads where data originates, while maintaining sovereignty, resilience, and control. Build sovereign edge solutions with Azure Local Today, I am pleased to announce a collaboration between Microsoft and Armada to deliver a practical…

Navigating digital sovereignty at the frontier of transformation

By Dustin Ward

Digital sovereignty is no longer a theoretical debate or a narrow compliance exercise. For leaders across governments, regulated industries, and critical infrastructure sectors, it has become a practical leadership discipline grounded in risk management, continuity planning, and long-term accountability. Over the past several years, we have seen customer concerns evolve materially. Early conversations focused primarily…

Announcing managed daemon support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing managed daemon support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances. This new capability extends the managed instances experience we introduced in September 2025, by giving platform engineers independent control over software agents such as monitoring, logging, and tracing tools, without requiring coordination with application development teams, while also improving reliability…