Mike Rosoft

Microsoft Entra: Upcoming changes to federatedTokenValidationPolicy default settings [MC1303719]

Message ID: MC1303719 [Introduction]To strengthen security for federated authentication, Microsoft Entra will update the default behavior of federatedTokenValidationPolicy. This policy governs how Microsoft Entra validates federated authentication tokens and determines whether sign-ins are allowed when the internalDomainFederation does not match…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 May 2026Admin impact, Plan for change

Amazon Web Services

AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides client-side encryption

The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides column-level client-side encryption through its KMS Encryption plugin. The wrapper provides advanced capabilities such as failover handling, AWS authentication integration, and enhanced monitoring for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS open source databases. It…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 May 2026

Amazon Web Services

Introducing Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 R8idn and Amazon EC2 R8idb 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. R8idn…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 May 2026

Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 May 2026

Amazon Web Services

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 2026

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 2026

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Microsoft Entra: Upcoming changes to federatedTokenValidationPolicy default settings [MC1303719]

AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides client-side encryption

Introducing Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances

Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions

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

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

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