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Oracle Database@Azure offers new features, regions, and programs to unlock data and AI innovation

By Dustin Ward

Together, Microsoft and Oracle are delivering the most comprehensive, enterprise‑ready platform for organizations migrating their Oracle solutions to the public cloud—especially those aiming to empower IT professionals and developers to streamline AI adoption and enhance…

Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale

By Dustin Ward

In the transition from building computing infrastructure for cloud scale to building cloud and AI infrastructure for frontier scale, the world of computing has experienced tectonic shifts in innovation. Throughout this journey, Microsoft has shared…

Monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage from a single interface with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a centralized solution to monitor, analyze, and manage capacity usage across all accounts and AWS Regions from a single interface. This service aggregates capacity information with…

Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes

By Dustin Ward

  As someone that used to work at Sun Microsystems, where ZFS was invented, I’ve always loved working with storage systems that offer instant volume copies for my development and testing needs. Today, I’m excited…

AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity

By Dustin Ward

Many organizations rely on the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) as the industry standard for exchanging critical business data. Traditionally, securely connecting to private SFTP servers required custom infrastructure, manual scripting, or exposing endpoints to…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, and more (October 13, 2025)

By Dustin Ward

This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy…

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