All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🛰️ Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports multilocation canaries, enabling teams to run a single canary across multiple AWS Regions from one management point. This eliminates the need to create separate regional canaries, reducing operational overhead and configuration drift. Replica canaries run independently while consolidating run data, metrics, and artifacts in the primary Region, and alarms can be configured to trigger only on multi-region issues. Multilocation canaries are available in all commercial AWS Regions that support CloudWatch Synthetics.

🔥 Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on all existing clusters at no extra cost. This feature, previously limited to newly created clusters, automates optimal partition balancing when scaling Express-based clusters up or down. Intelligent Rebalancing improves capacity utilization and performs rebalances up to 180× faster than Standard brokers while maintaining availability for producers and consumers.

🚀 Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster by supporting high-resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. AWS benchmarking shows time to trigger scale-out improved from 363s to 86s and total time to scale and provision tasks improved from 386s to 109s. Configure 20-second CPU or memory metrics via the AWS Console, CLI, CloudFormation, or SDKs; feature is available in all commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions and across Fargate, managed instances, and EC2. High-resolution metrics incur standard CloudWatch charges.

🚀 Today AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 delivers up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance versus G6 and supports AI inference, real-time cinematic graphics, game streaming, and large-scale data analytics. Instances offer up to 8 GPUs with 32 GB each, custom Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, and up to 700 Gbps EFA; available now in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon) as On-Demand, Savings Plans, or Spot.

🔒 When a major cyber incident occurs the CISO becomes the invisible CEO of crisis, making high‑pressure decisions while managing stakeholders and operational recovery. This intense role, combined with limited strategic influence and short tenures, drives burnout and turnover across EMEA. Preparation through exercises, clear measures of risk and a permanent strategic seat at the table are essential to build sustainable resilience.

🔒 Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking connectivity, allowing brokers to connect to private resources in your VPC without exposing them publicly. This simplifies secure access to private identity providers (such as LDAP and OAuth 2.0), other Amazon MQ brokers, or self-hosted RabbitMQ brokers. AWS manages the underlying infrastructure using Amazon VPC Lattice, AWS RAM, and AWS PrivateLink, replacing prior NLB and NAT Gateway workarounds. Private networking is available in Regions where VPC Lattice is supported.

🔐 This post shows how Kiro CLI, an AI-powered command line assistant, speeds AWS security investigations by proposing, explaining, and optionally executing AWS CLI commands while documenting each step. It demonstrates a GuardDuty-driven investigation following the AWS Security Incident Response Guide: triage, EC2 and IAM assessment, CloudTrail analysis, containment, and remediation. The walkthrough highlights benefits like faster triage, automated CloudTrail queries, and guided remediation, while advising human validation and forensic preservation.

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters. You can reserve UltraServers via EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and associate them with a PCS compute node group using an EC2 launch template, while PCS configures Slurm topology automatically. P6e-GB200 offers up to 72 GPUs, 360 petaflops FP8 (no sparsity), and 13.4 TB HBM3e; P6e-GB300 delivers 1.5x GPU memory and FP4 compute versus the GB200. PCS remains a managed Slurm-based service that simplifies building elastic HPC environments with integrated compute, storage, networking, visualization, managed updates, and observability.

🖥️ Starting today, AWS has expanded nested virtualization support to additional Intel-based instance families and US GovCloud regions. The feature is now available on C7i, R7i, M7i and their "-id" and "-flex" variants, plus I7i, C8i-flex, R8i-flex, M8i-flex and X8i, complementing earlier C8i, M8i and R8i support. US GovCloud (US-East) and US GovCloud (US-West) now also support nested virtualization in addition to all commercial regions. Customers can run KVM or Hyper-V inside EC2 instances for emulation, simulation, or WSL workloads.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now lets administrators interrupt an agent with an urgent contact, overriding normal routing so the agent can accept time-sensitive calls even while on another call. The capability can also target specific agents when they are in custom statuses that would otherwise prevent queued contacts, enabling personal extension or high-priority calls to ring through. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered and is documented in the Amazon Connect Customer Administrator Guide.

🔍 AWS Compute Optimizer now factors in additional CloudWatch signals—VolumeIOPSExceededCheck and VolumeThroughputExceededCheck—when producing Amazon EBS volume rightsizing recommendations. These metrics indicate when workloads consistently attempted to exceed provisioned IOPS or throughput in a minute. The feature aims to help balance cost and performance for bursty workloads and is available in all Compute Optimizer regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China.

🔒 Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the economic impact of consolidating security with its AI-first, end-to-end platform. Based on interviews and a survey of customers, Forrester modeled a composite 10,000-employee B2B organization and projected $30M in benefits against $13.4M in costs over three years, yielding a 124% ROI and $16.6M NPV. The study highlights faster decisions, reduced friction, and improved defender productivity as key operational gains.

🔐 Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress, allowing outbound Kubernetes API server traffic to traverse your Amazon VPC. This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests. By routing through your VPC you can manage routing, security groups, and egress paths to meet data perimeter and compliance needs. Enable the feature by setting controlPlaneEgressMode to CUSTOMER_ROUTED and enforce it org-wide with the eks:controlPlaneEgressMode IAM condition key.

🔒 Amazon Web Services has published its Spring 2026 SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports in machine-readable OSCAL (JSON) format alongside the traditional PDFs. The package covers 188 services for the period April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026 and is available via AWS Artifact. AWS is the first major cloud provider to offer SOC reports in NIST's OSCAL, enabling automation to reduce manual compliance processing.

🚀 Developers using Ray Serve for LLM inference on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) now get significantly better performance thanks to a joint effort with Anyscale. Three architectural changes — HAProxy integration for internal routing, a direct token streaming path, and a v2 Ray executor backend for vLLM — reduce overhead and latency. Benchmarks on A4 VMs with NVIDIA HGX B200 hardware show up to 5x higher throughput and 8x lower latency, while preserving Ray's developer-friendly features.

⚠️ Scammers are exploiting World Cup hype with fake streaming sites, fraudulent betting platforms, and counterfeit merchandise stores that harvest payments and personal data. Many sites demand extensive personal information or up-front payments, sometimes even in cryptocurrency, and use professional-looking pages to trick victims. Fans and bettors risk losing money and having credentials reused across accounts stolen; strong security measures and unique passwords are advised.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker AI now provides built-in observability for production generative AI inference, delivering real-time visibility into token performance, GPU health, inference component placement, and autoscaling behavior. The new SageMaker AI Insights dashboard in Amazon CloudWatch surfaces metrics like Time to First Token, inter-token latency, queue depth, and tokens per second alongside infrastructure health, with OpenTelemetry native metrics published automatically. Customers using Grafana can connect via a regional PromQL endpoint and import a pre-configured dashboard template for unified monitoring and faster diagnosis.

📣 Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports sending SMS from the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, enabling customers to deliver text messages to subscribers across more than 200 countries and territories. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that delivers messages to endpoints such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, mobile devices, and email. With this update, customers can subscribe phone numbers to SNS topics and broadcast SMS via AWS End User Messaging. Additional details include supported countries and guidance on mobile text messaging with SNS.

🔒 Check Point and AWS are collaborating to secure enterprise AI agents by integrating Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Check Point AI Security. This partnership extends AgentCore’s identity, gateway, registry, and policy capabilities with runtime behavioral protections that monitor agent actions across models, tools, data, and applications. The integration enables policy-driven governance, visibility into agent deployments, and prevention of misuse such as prompt injection or unintended data exposure.

🎉 Project Galileo provides free cybersecurity services to over 3,400 websites belonging to journalists, human rights defenders, and nonprofits across 120 countries. Cloudflare published its first comprehensive report on cyberattacks targeting civil society, released 16 participant case studies, and announced new partners. The findings show civil society faces more frequent and intense attacks, including prolonged DDoS, higher exploitation attempts, and elevated phishing rates. Cloudflare calls for broader, affordable protections and will produce this report annually.