All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

📊 The AWS DataSync console now includes a monitoring dashboard that gives visibility into data transfers across your account, showing status, transfer rates, duration, and totals for each task execution. You can filter executions by status, task, mode, execution ID, or start time and see summarized results including counts of successful and failed runs and cumulative data transferred. The dashboard highlights configured tasks, locations, and agents and provides real-time aggregate transfer rates, with the ability to inspect errors for failed executions. This feature is available at no extra cost in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where DataSync is offered.

🔎 A CAASM inventory that merely lists assets is insufficient; top tools attach criticality and connection data from day one so teams see what truly matters. Accurate resolution, deduplication, and frequent refreshes ensure the inventory reflects reality across devices, identities, cloud resources, SaaS, and misconfigurations. Connecting that inventory to external attack surface management, validation, and threat intelligence enables prioritization and remediation rather than endless reporting.

🛡️ Turnstile Spin is an agent-mediated, end-to-end implementation of Cloudflare's Turnstile that automates widget creation and backend validation. It guides AI coding agents to embed the Turnstile widget, wire Siteverify into server logic, fix misconfigurations, and migrate from other CAPTCHA providers without sending application code to Cloudflare. Spin can be started from the Cloudflare dashboard, Wrangler, or an agent skill and has already seen widespread adoption since its July release.

🖥️ Microsoft announced it will deprecate the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server role starting with the next Windows Server release. WDS, a successor to RIS, enabled network-based OS installs at scale but has seen partial deprecation steps since 2021, including removed features and reduced support for desktop OS deployment. Microsoft recommends migrating to alternatives such as Configuration Manager and notes current supported Server releases remain unaffected until removal.

🛠️ Microsoft confirmed that some users experience desktop loading problems, including black screens, after installing August 2026 preview updates and later updates. The issue primarily affects Azure Virtual Desktop hosts using FSLogix, causing black screens after sign-in and Windows Explorer crashes shown in event logs. Microsoft recommends a temporary workaround of manually launching explorer.exe via Task Manager and has provided a mitigation for enterprises through Known Issue Rollback (KIR) group policies.

🔍 Flock Safety's networked license-plate readers and cameras can aid serious investigations but also log vast sensitive location data searchable across agencies. The company faces documented misuse and must move quickly to embed effective controls like short retention defaults, case-bound access, multifactor authentication and anomaly detection. Graduated retention, verified case tokens, tighter sharing defaults and independent audit are recommended to balance public safety and privacy.

🔔 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. This update lets you protect and recover Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS workflow used for x86 servers. DRS automatically detects arm64 sources and recovers them onto Graviton instances with no extra configuration. The capability is available in all Regions where AWS DRS is offered and incurs no additional cost.

📞 AWS End User Messaging now supports voice calls on WhatsApp, letting businesses place and receive calls using their existing verified business identity. Conversations can transition from chat to voice within the same thread so context is not lost. Calls work both ways: customers can call businesses from a chat and businesses can call customers who granted permission. Manage the feature via the AWS End User Messaging console or API; it’s available in all Regions where Social is offered.

🛠️ AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now expose AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server so developers can perform messaging tasks using natural-language prompts. The skills provide validated, step-by-step guidance for actions like verifying sending identities, creating branded RCS agents, and sending production emails. They integrate with popular AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro, and are installed via the aws-core plugin or MCP configuration. Installation and per-skill details are covered in the respective agent setup guides.

🔍 AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides the ListBillingViewSegments API to return an account's billing context over a specified time period. The API reveals how accounts are positioned in the billing hierarchy—management, member, or billing group primary accounts—and which account managed the billing relationship and rate settings. It returns billing context only, not cost or usage data, and can be called directly or via an AI agent.

🔔 The updated Amazon EventBridge Custom event bus is a serverless event broker that enables scalable, decoupled event-driven applications. It supports cross-account sharing via AWS Resource Access Manager, strict ordering, CloudEvents JSON formats, built-in retention up to one year, and advanced transformations. A new Subscriber resource can filter and deliver events to over 250 AWS services, and a revised pricing model charges for data transfer rather than per-event.

🚀 Google Cloud was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, ranking highest for Ability to Execute. The accompanying Gartner Critical Capabilities report placed Google Cloud first across all evaluated use cases, including AI training and inference. Google highlights recent GKE and Cloud Run innovations—like predictive latency boosts, rapid startup times, serverless GPU scale-to-zero, and Agent Substrate/Sandbox—to support enterprise and AI workloads at scale. The post invites users to try the open-source Agent projects and explore Cloud Run and GKE enhancements.

🛡️ AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. These functions introduce primitives like step and wait to checkpoint progress, recover from failures, and pause executions without incurring on-demand compute charges. Support covers new Python (3.13, 3.14), Node.js (22, 24), and Java (17+) runtimes, and activation is possible via the AWS Lambda API, Console, SDKs, and IaC tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM, and AWS CDK.

🛠️ Microsoft announces updates to Foundry, offering expanded model options, native voice agents, long-running resilience, and continuous optimization tools to help teams build and operate production agents faster. The platform now supports recent frontier models like GPT-6 family and Claude Opus 5.5, voice agents in public preview with expressive multi-lingual capabilities, and developer tooling such as the Foundry Toolkit for VS Code. Enterprise governance features integrate with Microsoft Entra and include network egress controls, audit capabilities, and upcoming AI Gateway integration for centralized policy management.

📄 Scribd, Inc. used Gemini Enterprise to classify over 400 million user-uploaded documents (12+ billion pages) across Scribd and SlideShare. Native PDF input allowed more than 99% of the corpus to be processed without OCR or rendering, and batch prediction at a 50% discount made large-scale LLM classification economically viable. Google Cloud partnered on planning and scaling throughput, enabling the backfill to complete in months and converting the process into a continuous pipeline.

🚀 Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release on RDS. This beta refines query performance and autovacuum management, fixes TOAST table reporting in pg_stat_autovacuum_scores, and rebalances parallel autovacuum cost limits. Preview instances persist up to 60 days, snapshots are limited to the Preview Environment, and standard dump/load tooling is supported.

🔔 Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor releases 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908. RDS Extended Support offers up to three extra years of fixes for critical CVEs and bugs beyond standard support end dates. Customers can upgrade using Blue/Green Deployments, in-place upgrades, or restore from snapshots, and migrate with AWS Database Migration Service.

🔐 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange to provide post-quantum cryptography options for data in transit. RDS for PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher allow modification of the ssl_groups parameter so administrators can pick cryptographic groups from the RDS allow list. Customers can deploy or update managed PostgreSQL instances through the Amazon RDS Console or the AWS CLI to enable these options.

🔧 Google Cloud released the open-source GKE agentic migration plugin to simplify migrations from AWS EKS to Google Kubernetes Engine. The tool combines LLM-driven translations with deterministic server-side validation and GitOps PR workflows to avoid direct changes to live clusters. It persists long-running migration state for multi-persona handoffs and produces runbooks for stateful transport, enabling human-in-the-loop approvals and safer, auditable migrations.

🔒 This post summarizes September 2026 security updates across Microsoft Security, highlighting new controls for local AI agents, expanded Zero Trust for agentic traffic, and SOC improvements. It covers AI-powered detonation summaries for emails, Purview and Entra integration for data protection, Purview auto-labeling and eDiscovery enhancements, data lifecycle management for SharePoint, and new GCC High capabilities for Intune and PKI.