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Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, enabling developers to assign tasks to an AI agent that can develop features, conduct code reviews, enhance security, and migrate Java code, all directly within GitHub issues.
Model Context Protocols (MCPs) are quickly becoming the standard for connecting AI agents to external tools, but the developer experience hasnβt caught up. Discovery is fragmented, setup is clunky, and security is too often bolted on last. Fixing this experience isnβt a solo missionβit will take an industry-wide effort. A secure, scalable, and trusted MCP...
We are entering an era where Governance is increasingly important; with AI systems generating code and becoming a critical part of applicationβs runtime infrastructure, we can produce outputs at an increasingly rapid pace. Organizations and individuals...
OpenID Federation 1.0provides a framework to build trust between a Relying Party and anOpenID Provider that have no direct relationship so that the Relying Party can send OIDC/OAuth requests to the OpenID Provider without being previously...
Learn more about the solutions that Microsoft and Red Hat have to offer that drive technological advancements and empower organizations. The post Unlock whatβs next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
This new interactive, agentic coding experience for Visual Studio Code allows Q Developer to intelligently take actions on behalf of the developer.
Traffic management in Kubernetes can be complex, especially with modern applications composed of multiple services like frontends, APIs, and backends spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As these environments grow, ensuring secure, efficient, and reliable communication...
Weβre excited to announce that Docker Desktop is now available on the Microsoft Store! This new distribution channel enhances both the installation and update experience for individual developers while significantly simplifying management for enterprise IT teams. This milestone reinforces our commitment to Windows, our most widely used platform among Docker Desktop users. By partnering with...
Updated May 1, 2025: CNCF and Synadia have come to an agreement to ensure that NATS continues to thrive as a healthy open source project within CNCF, with Synadiaβs continued support and involvement. Please see our...
SAN FRANCISCO and San Mateo, CA β May 1, 2025 β The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, and leading edge innovator Synadia today announced that the widely-adopted NATS...
CNCF and Synadia have come to an agreement to ensure that NATS continues to thrive as a healthy open source project within CNCF, with Synadiaβs continued support and involvement. Please see our joint announcement for more...
In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the software development landscape, a new community has emerged to lead this evolution: AI Native Dev. The community is centered around the website, https://AINativeDev.io/, The site serves as a platform for a raft of different types of content and information. This platform is not just a [β¦]
In cloud-native development, ensuring the integrity and security of software artifacts (such as Docker images, Python wheels, and Helm charts) is a fundamental challenge. With the growing adoption of continuous integration and delivery pipelines, thereβs a...
Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. The post One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Nova Premier is designed to excel at complex tasks requiring deep context understanding, multistep planning, and coordination across tools and data sources. It has capabilities for processing text, images, and videos while also serving as a teacher model for distilling smaller, more efficient models for production use.
Itβs now been a couple of weeks since we released the new Docker DX extension for Visual Studio Code. This launch reflects a deeper collaboration between Docker and Microsoft to better support developers building containerized applications. Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed some changes to your Docker extension in VS Code. We...
We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less. The post Microsoft Cost Management updatesβApril 2025 appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Big things are happening in Docker Desktop 4.41! Whether you're building the next AI breakthrough or managing development environments at scale, this release is packed with tools to help you move faster and collaborate smarter. From bringing Docker Model Runner to Windows (with NVIDIA GPU acceleration!), Compose and Testcontainers, to new ways to manage models...
Get to know Jana Weβre thrilled to recognize Jana VonΕ‘Γ‘k from Slovakia as our first-ever female Golden Kubestronaut. A dedicated DevOps Security Engineer with a background in software development, Jana brings a rare blend of development...
The Vitess maintainers are happy to announce the release of version 22.0.0, along with version 2.15.0 of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator. This release is the first to benefit from a 6-month-long development cycle, after our recent...
Adaptability isnβt an option. Itβs the strategy. Every day, we engage with organizations navigating growing business complexity across industries, geographies, and regulatory environments. From global manufacturers modernizing plants to financial institutions re-architecting for resilience, we are seeing the same pattern: ambitions are moving faster than traditional architectures can respond to. Organizations must also...
Meta's newest AI models, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock, offering natively multimodal capabilities with enhanced reasoning, image understanding, and extended context processing for enterprise applications across multiple industries.
Azure AI Foundry is like GPS for your AI ambitions: it simplifies navigating the insane pace of innovation in the AI landscape so you see where you are today, evaluate whatβs new, and plan, execute, and manage your growing AI portfolio. The post Azure AI Foundry: Your GPS for the changing AI landscape appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and web hosting platforms efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. CloudFront SaaS Manager can dramatically reduce operational complexity while providing high-performance content delivery and enterprise-grade security for every customer domain.
Writer's Palmyra X5 and X4 models in Amazon Bedrock features extensive context windows and enterprise-grade security for building sophisticated AI applications across multiple industries.
Summit season is in full throttle! If you havenβt been to an AWS Summit, I highly recommend you check one out thatβs nearby. They are large-scale all-day events where you can attend talks, watch interesting demos and activities, connect with AWS and industry people, and more. Best of all, they are freeβso all you need [β¦]
Modern innovation is how companies differentiate, and AI is the prime example In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, itβs astonishing to realize that many businesses still rely on systems built decades ago. Imagine this: 220 billion lines of COBOL code are still running in production today, powering critical operations in industries ranging The post Accelerate AI innovation and business transformation:...
Forrester Consulting interviewed decision-makers from organizations using Azure Arc with cloud-based management services to manage their IT assets. The post Forrester Total Economic Impact study: A 304% ROI within 3 years using Azure Arc appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
On February 28, members of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee completed their voting and unanimously accepted Cozystack, a platform for building private clouds and PaaS, into the CNCF Sandbox. The project is currently undergoing the onboarding...
Discussing the code data problem and whatβs needed to enable agentic experiences that can drive code analysis and refactoring at scale.
In December of 2024, we published a blog with Anthropic about their totally new spec (back then) to run tools with AI agents: the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Since then, weβve seen an explosion in developer appetite to build, share, and run their tools with Agentic AI - all using MCP. Weβve seen new...
The Fluent Bit maintainers have exciting news to share! Fluent Bit version 4 is out and just in time to celebrate the projectβs 10-year anniversary. The journey: From embedded logging to multi-Signal observability With over 15...
OpenID Federation 1.0provides a framework to build trust between a Relying Party and anOpenID Provider that have no direct relationship so that the Relying Party can send OIDC/OAuth requests to the OpenID Provider without being previously...
The cloud native community recently converged in London from April 1 β 4, 2025, for an incredible edition of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. From our perspective at LitmusChaos, it was a week filled with inspiring sessions,...
AWS is adding a new Availability Zone in Maryland to the US East (Northern Virginia) Region by 2026, enhancing redundancy and supporting growing AI workloads while maintaining high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections.