All news in category "Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch"

Amazon EC2 U7i High Memory Instances Arrive in Ohio

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 High Memory U7i instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) available in the US East (Ohio) region as of Nov 17, 2025. These instances deliver 24 TB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They support up to 100 Gbps EBS, up to 200 Gbps networking with ENA Express, and target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. The offering is intended to help customers scale transaction processing throughput in fast-growing data environments.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Adds 10 Speech Languages

🎙️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics beyond English: Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese. BDA can transcribe audio in the detected language, generate GenAI-powered insights, and produce summaries either in the detected language or in English. It also creates multi-lingual transcripts when recordings contain more than one supported language, simplifying analysis of customer calls, meetings, education sessions, clinical discussions, and public safety audio. Support is available in eight AWS Regions.

AWS HealthImaging Adds Native JPEG 2000 Lossless Support

🩺 AWS HealthImaging now supports JPEG 2000 Lossless as a native transfer syntax for storing and retrieving lossless DICOM images, making it easier to integrate HealthImaging with applications that require JPEG 2000 encoded data. Customers can choose between JPEG 2000 Lossless (UID 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.90) and High-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) for lossless storage. Enabling JPEG 2000 Lossless reduces retrieval latency by eliminating the need to transcode images at access time. This capability is available in all regions where HealthImaging is generally available.

Amazon RDS for MySQL: New minor versions 8.0.44 & 8.4.7

🔔 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7, matching the latest community releases. Amazon recommends upgrading to these minors to remediate known security vulnerabilities and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, faster updates. Consult the Amazon RDS user guide for upgrade procedures and regional availability.

Amazon ECR Adds PrivateLink Support for FIPS Endpoints

🔒 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon ECR now supports PrivateLink endpoints validated under FIPS 140-3. This allows customers with security and compliance requirements to use FIPS-validated cryptographic modules while keeping traffic private within their Amazon VPCs. The enhancement helps organizations meet regulatory obligations without exposing container registry traffic to the public internet. Availability includes several commercial and AWS GovCloud regions.

Amazon Aurora MySQL v3.11 Adds MySQL 8.0.43 Support

🆕 Amazon is releasing Aurora MySQL - Compatible Edition 3 updated to v3.11 with support for MySQL 8.0.43. The update delivers multiple security enhancements and bug fixes, addresses additional group replication errors, and introduces the mysql client commands option to enable or disable most client commands. You can upgrade manually by modifying a DB cluster or enable the Auto minor version upgrade option; the release is available in all AWS regions where Aurora MySQL is offered.

Amazon MQ Adds LDAP Authentication to RabbitMQ Brokers

🔐 Amazon MQ now supports LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ brokers in all AWS regions, allowing brokers to authenticate and authorize users against LDAP identity providers. Administrators can manage users and assign permissions to topics and queues using credentials stored in their LDAP server. LDAP support can be enabled when creating or updating brokers via the AWS Console, CloudFormation, CLI, or CDK, and remains compatible with standard RabbitMQ LDAP implementations.

AWS Parallel Computing Service Achieves HIPAA Eligibility

🔒 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is now HIPAA eligible, enabling organizations with a Business Associate Addendum (BAA) to run protected health data workloads. AWS PCS is a managed High Performance Computing service that uses the Slurm workload manager for cluster orchestration and targets compute-intensive tasks such as genomic sequencing, medical imaging analysis, and clinical research simulations. AWS says it maintains a standards-based risk management program to support HIPAA administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and that eligibility applies in all AWS Regions where PCS is offered.

Amazon VPC IPAM Automates IP Assignments from Infoblox

🔁 AWS announced that Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) can now automatically acquire non‑overlapping IP allocations from Infoblox Universal IPAM, reducing the need for manual ticketing between cloud and on‑prem teams. The integration imports allocated ranges into a top‑level AWS IPAM pool and allows organization into regional pools to prevent address conflicts. The feature is available in all Regions where VPC IPAM is supported, excluding AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US); refer to the IPAM documentation and pricing tab for details.

Android Memory Bugs Drop as Google Expands Rust Use

🛡️ Google reports that adopting Rust across Android has reduced memory-safety vulnerabilities to under 20% for the first time and claims a 1000x lower vulnerability density versus legacy C and C++ code. The company says Rust changes have a 4x lower rollback rate, require about 20% fewer revisions, and cut code review time by roughly 25%, improving overall delivery speed. Google plans to extend Rust to kernel, firmware and critical first-party apps while maintaining layered defenses.

Google to Flag Android Apps for Excessive Battery Use

🔋 Google will begin flagging Android apps on Google Play that show high background activity and cause excessive battery drain. The change centers on a new Android Vitals metric called excessive partial wake locks, and apps that cross the bad-behavior threshold may be labeled as battery drainers and lose prominence in discovery surfaces. Developers will receive alerts in their Android Vitals dashboard and have until March 1, 2026 to remediate issues.

Amazon ECS improves service availability for rolling deploys

🔁 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now replaces unhealthy or terminated tasks with healthy tasks from the same service revision during rolling deployments instead of prioritizing the new revision. This prevents service availability drops when new task versions fail health checks or cannot start. Application Auto Scaling scale-outs are applied across both revisions so the running version can handle increased load. These changes respect maximumPercent and minimumHealthyPercent and are enabled by default in all Regions.

AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for SQS Event-Source Mappings

🔔 AWS Lambda now offers Provisioned Mode for SQS event-source mappings (ESMs), letting you provision persistent event pollers to handle sudden traffic spikes. Provisioned ESMs scale up to 3x faster (up to 1,000 concurrent executions/min) and support up to 16x higher concurrency (up to 20,000 concurrent executions), reducing latency for bursty workloads. The feature is generally available in all AWS Commercial Regions and is configurable via the Console, API, CLI, SDK, CloudFormation, and SAM; billing is by Event Poller Units (EPU).

Google Cloud: Cloud-Native HPC Innovations for SC25

🚀 Google Cloud previewed its HPC and AI innovations for SC25, emphasizing a shift to cloud-native HPC that lets researchers and engineers provision purpose-built clusters in minutes. Key highlights include H4D and A4X VMs with low-latency Cloud RDMA, plus the Dynamic Workload Scheduler with Flex Start to enable flexible, cost-effective access to high-demand compute. The Cluster Toolkit and Google Managed Lustre simplify cluster deployment and high-throughput storage, while the latest TPUs and AI tools accelerate scientific workflows. Attendees are invited to booth #3724 for demos, talks, and community events.

Protective ReRoute: Host-based Network Resilience for Cloud

🛡️ Protective ReRoute (PRR) shifts rapid failure recovery from the network core to endpoints, enabling hosts to detect packet loss or high latency and re-steer traffic onto alternate pre-existing paths. Implemented in Linux (4.20+) and supported in Google Cloud via hypervisor and guest modes, PRR alters packet headers (IPv6 flow-label or overlay outer headers) to request multipath forwarding. In production for five years, it prevents up to 84% of slow-convergence outages and typically restores service in a single-digit multiple of RTT.

Using BigQuery ML to Solve Lookalike Audiences at Zeotap

🔍 Zeotap and Google Cloud describe a SQL-first approach to building scalable lookalike audiences entirely within BigQuery. They convert low-cardinality categorical features into one-hot and multi-hot vectors, use Jaccard similarity reframed via dot-product and Manhattan norms, and index vectors with BigQuery’s VECTOR_SEARCH. By combining pre-filtering on discriminative features and batching queries, the workflow reduces compute, latency, and cost while avoiding a separate vector database.

Advancing Text-to-SQL: Gemini's BIRD Benchmark Breakthrough

🚀 Google Cloud reports a new state-of-the-art Single Trained Model Track score on the BIRD benchmark, achieving 76.13 with a fine-tuned Gemini 2.5-pro. The team credits rigorous data filtering, multitask supervised fine-tuning, and test-time self-consistency selection for the gains. These improvements bolster NL2SQL features in AlloyDB AI and BigQuery, and enhance developer tooling such as Gemini Code Assist for reliable SQL generation.

Waze modernizes session handling with Memorystore Cluster

🚀 Waze centralized its real-time session state into a new Session Server backed by Memorystore for Redis Cluster, enabling shared, low-latency access across microservices and removing tight coupling to the monolithic RT service. The team executed a dual-write migration from Memcached to ensure data parity and achieve a zero-downtime cutover. The resulting system sustains over 1 million MGET/s with stable sub-millisecond latency and leverages partial updates to reduce network and write costs.

From Detection to Response: Confidence and Visibility

🔦 Network visibility is the critical lens that turns detection into decisive action. ESG research cited in the article shows 98% of organizations say visibility helps them move from detection to response faster and with greater confidence. Detection raises the alarm; packet-level investigation reveals scope, lateral movement, and exfiltration so analysts can validate alerts and act precisely. The piece positions NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Intelligence as a scalable DPI capability that unifies SecOps and NetOps across hybrid and multicloud environments to eliminate blind spots and enable targeted response.

SOC Efficiency: The Most Valuable Cybersecurity Asset

🔍 Efficiency in security is about focus, not speed. ESG research finds 53% of organizations credit NDR with improving SOC analyst efficiency by reducing false positives and eliminating blind spots. Continuous packet capture and full-fidelity network visibility let analysts of all levels investigate with greater confidence and speed. NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Intelligence is offered as a solution to provide that visibility and maximize scarce human resources.