Mike Rosoft

OpenAI GPT-5.4 generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Bedrock now supports GPT‑5.4 from OpenAI in AWS GovCloud (US-West) — giving government and regulated industry customers access to OpenAI's most capable frontier model for professional work, backed by the enterprise-grade security and goverment compliance scope of AWS GovCloud…

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Amazon Web Services

ARC Region switch adds Amazon Aurora scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover

Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch helps customers orchestrate the failover of their multi-Region applications to achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment. Today, we are announcing three new execution blocks — the Amazon…

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Step Functions adds AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step

AWS Step Functions now enables you to add AI agent reasoning steps to your workflow through an optimized integration with the managed harness (currently in preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that orchestrates…

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Glue Data Catalog Client for Apache Hive Metastore now supports Hive 3 and discovery of multiple catalogs

The AWS Glue Data Catalog Client for Apache Hive Metastore now supports Hive 3. With this update, Hive-compatible clients can now use this library to list and read multiple catalogs in the Glue Data Catalog. This client library is available…

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SharePoint Online

(Updated) Authoritative Sites for SharePoint in Microsoft Copilot [MC1310687]

Message ID: MC1310687 (Updated) Updated June 3, 2026: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction] Authoritative Sites enables administrators to designate specific SharePoint sites as trusted sources of organizational information. By prioritizing content from these sites in…

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Amazon RDS for Db2 launches support for IBM Db2 v12.1 and Db2 Community Edition

Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports IBM Db2 v12.1. With Db2 v12.1, RDS now supports Db2 Standard, Db2 Advanced, and Db2 Community Edition. Db2 Community Edition provides all the features available in Standard and Advanced Editions, with no commercial software…

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Mike on Anthropic Claude Sonnet is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot [MC1247880]17 April 2026
Really interesting update. It feels like the bigger story here is not just that another model has been added, but…
Mike on Copilot entry point changes in Excel [MC1282571]17 April 2026
This is a helpful breakdown of what looks like a small UX change on the surface but has very real…
AI Logo Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 14, 202617 February 2026
It’s exciting to see Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR updates rolling out globally. I’m curious if there are any significant…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 13, 202615 February 2026
Security bulletins like the one for CVE-2025-13292 are always a bit concerning, but it’s reassuring to know Google is actively…
Nano Banana AI on GCP Release Notes: February 12, 202614 February 2026
This migration tool seems like a great step for those looking to modernize their infrastructure. Being able to move App…

MC1243549: SharePoint and OneDrive Retire One-Time Passcode and Shift External Sharing to Microsoft Entra B2B

MC1243549: SharePoint and OneDrive Retire One-Time Passcode and Shift External Sharing to Microsoft Entra B2B

MC1431365: Viva Insights Adds Agent 365 Dashboard Access for Managers in Copilot Analytics

MC1181769: Microsoft Purview Adds Network-Layer DLP Enforcement via Entra Global Secure Access Integration

MC1387814: Microsoft Teams Pauses RTMP-In Port and Domain Requirement Changes

MC1430542: Outlook Adds Copilot Integration for Real-Time Email Drafting

MC1430543: Excel Copilot Adds Text Summarization and Automatic Category Generation

MC1430531: Outlook Retires Meeting Insights and Shifts to Copilot Meeting Preparation

MC1430537: Copilot in Excel Gets Brand Kit Skill to Apply Organizational Branding to Workbooks

MC1430523: Microsoft Teams Adds File Type and Media Filters in Channel Shared Tabs

OpenAI GPT-5.4 generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

ARC Region switch adds Amazon Aurora scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover

AWS Step Functions adds AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step

AWS Glue Data Catalog Client for Apache Hive Metastore now supports Hive 3 and discovery of multiple catalogs

(Updated) Authoritative Sites for SharePoint in Microsoft Copilot [MC1310687]

Amazon RDS for Db2 launches support for IBM Db2 v12.1 and Db2 Community Edition

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