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PCI DSS 4.0: When payment compliance becomes day-to-day retail reality

Retailers now face daily trading risk as PCI DSS 4.0 turns payment compliance into a continuous operational requirement, not an annual audit.

By Richard McPhee • 4 min read • Last month

DevOps

Enterprise teams trust AI more in build than release

Enterprise software teams are far more willing to use AI before production, with trust dropping from 82% at build to 58% at release.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month

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Software-as-a-Service

Cloudhouse launches outage stress test amid AI risks

Businesses face greater outage exposure as cloud, automation and AI add hidden dependencies, especially when summer holidays thin IT teams.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last week

Platform-as-a-Service

AWS adds Claude Sonnet 5 as it trims older services

New cloud features and lifecycle cuts could reshape AWS customers' AI and operations plans as older services head towards maintenance or sunset.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Last week

DevOps

AWS launches Express mode for faster CloudFormation

Deployment feedback for developers could arrive up to four times faster, though resources may still be stabilising in the background.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • This month

DevOps

Amazon Web Services adds ACME support to Certificate Manager

Shorter certificate lifecycles could force more renewals onto automation, as AWS now lets customers issue and renew TLS certificates through ACME.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • This month

Digital Transformation

Amazon WorkSpaces gains AI agent access for desktop apps

Legacy desktop software can now be automated without new APIs, as Amazon Web Services opens WorkSpaces applications to AI agents under existing controls.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • This month

DevOps

Google Cloud adds long-lookback PromQL alert policies

History-based alerts in Cloud Monitoring can now compare workloads with patterns stretching back two years, reducing false alarms from fixed thresholds.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • This month

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services launches no-code AI customer designer

Business teams can now build AI-led service journeys without engineering support, as AWS previews a no-code designer for Amazon Connect Customer.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

DevOps

SuperPlane raises USD $2.6 million for AI ops platform

The Serbian startup will use the cash to expand an open-source control plane that lets engineers supervise AI-driven production workflows safely.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Last month

Surveillance

Ubotica raises USD $11 million for maritime AI platform

The funding will speed deployment of a service aimed at helping governments spot threats to cables, pipelines and shipping routes from orbit.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month

DevOps

Envoy AI Gateway reaches 1.0 for production AI use

Enterprises can now route AI traffic with open-source governance and observability as Envoy AI Gateway reaches version 1.0.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month

Network Security

OpenAI expands Daybreak with patching tools & partners

The move aims to help defenders turn faster vulnerability discovery into working fixes, as OpenAI broadens access to its cyber tools and partners.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Last month

Disaster Recovery

EDB adds quorum commit to distributed Postgres 6.4

The update aims to stop conflicting writes across sites in critical sectors such as banking and payments, reducing reconciliation risk.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month

Data Protection

Tetrate & Ory secure AI agents with runtime controls

Enterprises testing AI agents in production will get parameter-level policy checks and step-up approval for risky actions through a new Ory-Tetrate setup.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last month