AWS has announced several updates for Aurora DSQL, focusing on usability, integrations, and developer tooling. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2026/03...

Cloudflare recently announced support for ASPA. The cryptographic standard helps make Internet routing safer by verifying the path data takes across networks to reach its destination and preventing traffic from traversing untrusted networks. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/03...

AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A long-awaited feature by the community, the new option enables use cases such as app emulation and hardware simulation. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/03...

# MySQL is changing how foreign key constraints and cascades are managed. Starting with MySQL 9.6, foreign key validation and cascade actions are handled by the SQL layer rather than the InnoDB storage engine. www.infoq.com/news/2026/02...

AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec rights holders. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/02...

#Databricks has recently announced the general availability of #Lakebase, a serverless, PostgreSQL-based OLTP database that scales compute and storage independently. More on @infoq.com. www.infoq.com/news/2026/02...

#Cloudflare has recently introduced Local Uploads for R2 in open beta. The new feature optimizes write performance for globally distributed users without changing bucket location, reducing cross-region write latency. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/02...

LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that requires registration. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/02...

A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. My recap on @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2026/02...

#Percona recently announced #OpenEverest, an open-source platform for automated database provisioning and management that supports multiple database technologies. More on #InfoQ. www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...

www.infoq.com/news/2026/01... AWS recently published a security bulletin acknowledging a configuration issue affecting some popular AWS-managed open-source GitHub repositories. My recap for @infoq.com is out today.

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...

#Cloudflare recently announced support for aggregations in R2 SQL, a new feature that lets developers run SQL queries on data stored in R2. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...

MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. The flaw can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, potentially leading to the exfiltration of sensitive data. www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...

AWS has recently introduced VPC encryption controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. www.infoq.com/news/2026/01...

#CaseStudy - Karrot replaced its legacy recommendation system with a new scalable architecture powered by multiple AWS services! Read how they built it and what issues it addresses: bit.ly/3KNEfE4 #AWS #EventDrivenArchitecture #DistributedCache #ApacheKafka #InfoQ

AWS recently announced that the managed source control service AWS CodeCommit is again generally available and that new features, including Git Large File Storage, will be added early in 2026. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...

A recent report by @percona.bsky.social has analyzed the repository statistics of the hashtag#MySQL server to evaluate the project's status, Oracle's commitment to MySQL, and the future of the community edition. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...

AWS has introduced EC2 instance attestation, a new security feature that enables customers to verify that their virtual machines are running approved software configurations in a cryptographically secure manner. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...

@planetscale.com recently announced the general availability of its managed sharded Postgres service, built for performance and reliability on AWS or Google Cloud. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...

Cloudflare recently implemented the node:http client and server APIs in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to migrate existing Node.js applications to the serverless platform. These HTTP APIs enable frameworks such as Express.js and Koa.js to run on Workers. www.infoq.com/news/2025/09...

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AWS recently announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, a new option for Oracle Exadata workloads, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), within AWS. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

Ahead of the @infoq.com Dev Summit in Munich, Markus Ostertag, Elena van Engelen-Maslova, Erik Steiger, and Katharine Jarmul discussed the European cloud dilemma in a recent "Sovereign Clouds, Hyperscalers and European Alternatives" podcast. www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

The engineering team at Cloudflare recently shared how they transitioned Quicksilver, their internal global key-value store, to a tiered caching architecture. My recap is today out on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

Last week, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast episode with speakers from the upcoming InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025. We discussed the practical challenges facing European developers caught between regulatory pressures and technological realities. www.infoq.com/podcasts/sov...

In a recent article from the engineering team behind the Zero Trust product suite, #Cloudflare explains why it chose TimescaleDB over ClickHouse to add analytics and reporting capabilities to its internal platform. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

At the recent AWS Summit in New York City, #AWS announced the preview of Amazon S3 Vectors, claiming to be the first cloud object store with native support for storing large vector datasets. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

#AWS has recently announced that Amazon S3 now supports sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

The Guardian has recently released Secure Messaging, a highly secure and user-friendly tool designed to protect journalistic sources by concealing the very fact that messaging is occurring. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

Atlassian recently migrated 4 million Jira databases to Amazon Aurora to reduce costs and improve the reliability of its Jira Cloud platform. My recap is out on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

#Cloudflare has announced the public beta of its new container service, enabling developers to run containers on its global network. www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

Expired SSL/TLS certificates are responsible for approximately 32% of web application downtime incidents. OK, I made that number up. Talking about certificates, #AWS announced exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from ACM. Here is my recap for @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

AWS has recently introduced Innovation Sandbox on AWS, a new open source solution for managing AWS sandbox environments through a web user interface. My recap is out on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

@mariadb.bsky.social Recently, MariaDB Community Server 11.8 was released as generally available, marking its yearly long-term support (LTS) release for 2025. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. #mariadb #rdbms www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

The recent article by Zhou Sun, "HTAP is Dead," sparked a debate in the data community about the future of hybrid transaction/analytical processing. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. #databases #htap www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

AWS recently launched the CDK Toolkit Library, making it easier for developers to work with the AWS CDK directly through code. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/06... #AWS #CDK #CloudDevelopmentKit #DevTools

Amazon has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible, serverless, and distributed database. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. #aws #rdbms #postgres www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has recently launched the beta of the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD), a new public platform operating alongside, but independently from, the widely used CVE system. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

The OpenSearch Software Foundation has announced the general availability of OpenSearch 3.0, the first major release in three years and the first since the project joined the Linux Foundation. www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

Last month, Synadia threatened to pull NATS from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), moving from the Apache 2.0 license to a non-open source license. A recap of how the controversy unfolded is out on @isc.bsky.social www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

Redis 8 has recently hit general availability, switching to the AGPLv3 license. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

Rapid Storage, a new Cloud Storage zonal bucket designed to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

During the recent Developer Week 2025, @cloudflare.social announced the beta of global read replication for its serverless SQL database D1, providing a globally distributed option without sacrificing consistency. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

During the recent Developer Week 2025, #Cloudflare announced the public beta of Cloudflare Secrets Store, a secure way to store API tokens, keys, and credentials. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

#Redis has recently announced the addition of Vector Set, a data type designed for vector similarity and a new option for AI applications. My recap is now available on @infoq.com. www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

#AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

@planetscale.com has recently announced that vector support is now generally available. Created as a fork of #MySQL, this new feature allows vector data to be stored alongside an application's relational MySQL data www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

During the recent #Cloudflare Security Week 2025, the cloud provider announced various improvements to its cybersecurity services and multiple reports analyzing trends and challenges in security threats. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

Current geopolitical tensions have raised attention to existing cloud providers in Europe, with many European companies increasingly concerned about reliance on US-controlled services. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...