Centralize visibility of Kubernetes clusters across AWS Regions and accounts with EKS Dashboard

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing EKS Dashboard, a centralized display that enables cloud architects and cluster administrators to maintain organization-wide visibility across their Kubernetes clusters. With EKS Dashboard, customers can now monitor clusters deployed across different AWS Regions and accounts through a unified view, making it easier to track cluster inventory, assess compliance, and plan operational…

Configure System Integrity Protection (SIP) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances

By Dustin Ward

I’m pleased to announce developers can now programmatically disable Apple System Integrity Protection (SIP) on their Amazon EC2 Mac instances. System Integrity Protection (SIP), also known as rootless, is a security feature introduced by Apple in OS X El Capitan (2015, version 10.11). It’s designed to protect the system from potentially harmful software by restricting…

Introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page and AWS service availability updates

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re introducing the AWS Product Lifecycle page, a centralized resource that provides comprehensive information about service availability changes across AWS. The new AWS Product Lifecycle page consolidates all service availability information in one convenient location. This dedicated resource offers detailed visibility into three key categories of changes: 1) services closing access to new customers,…

Azure AI Foundry: Your AI App and agent factory

By Dustin Ward

Software development is undergoing a transformation. In the old world, building software was a long relay—weeks to plan, months to build, and quarters to launch. In the new world, AI-powered tools turn ideas into prototypes in hours and production solutions in days. To achieve this, developers need an end-to-end platform that seamlessly connects code, collaboration,…

Powering the next AI frontier with Microsoft Fabric and the Azure data portfolio 

By Dustin Ward

The emergence of an entirely new type of organization—reconstructed with AI—was uncovered in Microsoft’s latest annual Work Trend Index report. These frontier firms are building agent assistants, creating hybrid human and agent teams, and even establishing entire teams of agents directed by humans. As more organizations begin their journey to this next frontier, agents will…

Transforming R&D with agentic AI: Introducing Microsoft Discovery

By Dustin Ward

We are announcing a new enterprise agentic platform called Microsoft Discovery to accelerate research and development (R&D) at Microsoft Build 2025. Our goal is to bring the power of AI to scientists and engineers to transform the entire discovery process—from advanced knowledge reasoning and hypothesis formulation to experimental simulation and iterative learning. Microsoft Discovery enables…