Mike Rosoft

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports instances powered by AMD EPYC processors

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8a and R8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors. On RDS for SQL Server, R8a and M8a instances deliver up to 70% higher throughput than comparable x86 instances for commonly used…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 May 2026No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances are available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors,…

Modern Workspace Pro 7 May 2026No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in Europe (London) region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in Europe (London) region. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances to…

Modern Workspace Pro 7 May 2026No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Introducing Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 M8idn and Amazon EC2 M8idb instances, powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS. These instances also feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. M8idn…

Modern Workspace Pro 7 May 2026No Comments

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(Updated) New Feature: Account Manager in Outlook for Windows [MC1129718]

Message ID: MC1129718 (Updated) Updated May 7, 2026: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience. We're introducing a new Account Manager experience in Outlook for Windows. This feature helps users better manage their Microsoft accounts by providing quick…

Modern Workspace Pro 7 May 2026New feature, Stay informed, Updated message, User impactNo Comments

(Updated) Flux.2 Flex model availability in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Copilot [MC1302900]

Message ID: MC1302900 (Updated) Updated May 7, 2026: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. [Introduction]We're introducing support for Black Forest Labs Flux.2 Flex image generation model in PowerPoint with Microsoft 365 Copilot. This model is optimized for high‑quality…

Modern Workspace Pro 7 May 2026New feature, Stay informed, Updated message, User impactNo Comments

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…