All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🚀 AWS Storage Gateway now supports deployment on the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, enabling S3 File, Tape, and Volume gateway virtual appliances to run on Nutanix HCI environments. This expands on-premises deployment choices beyond VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, and KVM, providing seamless access to AWS S3 storage via NFS, SMB, iSCSI and iSCSI-VTL. The capability is available in all AWS Regions and can be managed through the Storage Gateway console.

🧠 Cloudflare built a centralized maintenance scheduler on Workers to automatically enforce safety constraints across 330+ data centers, replacing error-prone manual coordination. The scheduler models infrastructure and product relationships as a typed graph, so Workers fetch only the relationships relevant to a maintenance request and avoid memory bloat. A layered fetch pipeline with request deduplication, an LRU in-memory cache, CDN caching and backoff retries reduced response payloads ~100x and drives ~99% cache hits for real-time checks.

🌿 Wave Browser combines an efficient, modern browsing experience with verified environmental action through a partnership with 4ocean and adherence to AppEsteem standards. Built-in ad blocking, memory-saving utilities, and integrated productivity features reduce background processes and the need for multiple third-party extensions, lowering device and infrastructure energy use. Impact is tracked on the homepage with monthly reports toward a 300,000-pound cleanup goal by 2028.

🔒 AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that let administrators programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. The APIs automate critical workflows — including user lifecycle management, network creation and deletion, retention and federation policy pushes, and security group placement based on directory attributes — and integrate with identity systems, policy frameworks, and automation pipelines. They are available today in all supported AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-West), via AWS SDKs, the AWS CLI, or direct REST calls.

🚀 AWS Neuron SDK 2.27.0 adds support for Trainium3 UltraServer and expands open-source components to simplify deployment and optimization. The release introduces the Neuron Explorer tools suite, an enhanced Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) with an open-source NKI Compiler built on MLIR (private beta), and an NKI Library of optimized kernels. It also provides native PyTorch support via TorchNeuron (private beta) and a Kubernetes-native Neuron DRA (private beta). The SDK is available in all AWS Regions that support Inferentia and Trainium, bringing improved performance and monitoring for ML workloads.

🔐 AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that enable administrators to programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. The APIs support user lifecycle management, network configuration, and security group administration to automate onboarding, offboarding, retention, federation, and policy enforcement. Organizations can integrate Wickr administration with identity systems and automation pipelines and access the APIs in all supported AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-West), via SDKs, the AWS CLI, or direct REST calls.

🐳 Docker has open-sourced and made freely available over 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) under the Apache 2.0 license to provide a secure, minimal foundation for containerized applications. The images are rootless, stripped of unnecessary components, SBOM-verifiable, and shipped with SLSA Build Level 3 provenance and proof of authenticity. Docker will continue to publish fixes for DHI components while reserving a 7-day critical CVE patching SLA for the commercial DHI Enterprise tier. The full DHI catalog and subscription options are available from Docker's product offerings.

⚠️ Cloudflare has opened a company‑wide "Code Orange: Fail Small" initiative after two network incidents in November and December 2025 that disrupted customer traffic. The program prioritizes three workstreams: require controlled rollouts for configuration changes, review and harden failure modes across services, and overhaul break‑glass procedures to remove circular dependencies. Changes will be delivered iteratively, using existing Health Mediated Deployments (HMD) and updates to Quicksilver to stage and validate configuration updates before global propagation.

⚠️ Microsoft is investigating a widespread incident affecting Microsoft Teams, with thousands of users reporting messaging delays, failed sends, and issues with other service functions. The outage began around 2:30 PM ET and is impacting users across the United States and Europe. Microsoft says it is observing recovery in telemetry, is continuing analysis to identify impacted scenarios and determine root cause, and will share updates; this is a developing story.

🔒 Google Cloud senior leaders Nick Godfrey and Anton Chuvakin recap 2025 security developments and lessons learned across cloud and AI. They highlight five focus areas — securing cloud, securing AI, AI-enabled defense, threat intelligence, and building trust — and call out major items such as the announced Wiz acquisition, response to React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182), and the launch of AI Protection. The newsletter stresses fundamentals, governance, and using AI to empower defenders.

🔍 Looker is expanding self-service analytics with three Public Preview capabilities: self-service Explores, tabbed dashboards, and internal dashboard theming. Users can upload CSVs and spreadsheets, join local files with governed models, and visually create measures and dimensions while administrators control upload permissions and certify content. Tabbed dashboards organize complex narratives with cross-tab filters and shareable tab URLs, and internal themes let teams apply consistent styling across dashboards.

📅 Google Cloud’s 2025 roundup highlights a year of fast-moving AI and infrastructure innovation, from major model releases to accelerator and networking expansions. The blog chronicles product launches like Gemini 3, Veo 3, Ironwood TPUs, and Vertex AI enhancements alongside security work, research, and high-profile customer stories. It traces month-by-month developments, acquisitions and partnerships, and guidance for enterprises adopting agentic AI and cloud-scale systems.

🔁 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch now introduces three new capabilities: general availability in AWS GovCloud (US‑East and US‑West), automatic plan execution reports saved to an Amazon S3 bucket, and support for Amazon DocumentDB global cluster execution blocks. Execution reports include a detailed timeline, resources in scope, alarm states, and RTO calculations to simplify compliance and audit evidence. The DocumentDB execution blocks enable automated multi‑Region failover and switchover operations within Region switch plans. Build and run plans from the ARC console, API, or CLI to begin using these features.

🚀 AWS announced SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing support for Amazon SageMaker Studio, reducing custom container startup times by 30–50% through lazy loading. Users can create SOCI indexes with Finch CLI, nerdctl, or Docker plus the SOCI CLI, push indexed images to Amazon ECR, and reference the image index URI when creating SageMaker Image resources. SOCI indexing is available in all Regions where SageMaker Studio is offered.

🔒 AWS Private CA now supports OCSP in China (Beijing, Ningxia) and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. The managed OCSP responder enables real-time, per-certificate revocation checks that typically use only a few hundred bytes per query instead of downloading large Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), reducing bandwidth and latency. Enable OCSP through the console, AWS CLI, or API; the responder is highly available and fully managed, removing the need to operate OCSP servers, and pricing details are available in the service documentation.

🤖 The Criminal IP threat intelligence and attack-surface monitoring platform is now integrated into Cortex XSOAR, injecting AI-driven exposure context, behavioral signals, and automated scanning into SOAR playbooks. Analysts can launch Quick Lookups, Lite Scans, and Full Scans from within XSOAR and receive structured reports and continuous Micro ASM findings without leaving the console. The integration links internal telemetry with open-internet intelligence to improve incident classification, accelerate response, and reduce analyst fatigue.

🔔 Amazon RDS now provides enhanced observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3, delivering per-task insights on export progress, failures, and performance. The update adds four new event types, including current export progress and table-level notifications for long-running tables, and reports exported and pending table counts and data sizes. You can subscribe to events via AWS SNS and view export status in the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK. This capability is available for RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in Commercial Regions.

🔍 Cloudflare’s H1 2025 transparency update explains how the company is evolving its approach to unauthorized streaming and related copyright claims, combining technical controls, automation, and partnerships with rightsholders. The post highlights a service-specific abuse model that treats hosted content differently from sites using Cloudflare’s CDN and security layers, and describes expanded use of APIs and automated detection. Cloudflare also reiterates its refusal to implement public DNS blocking while describing limited geoblocking in jurisdictions where orders meet human rights and proportionality tests.

🔒 The post summarizes a recent Agent Factory episode where Google product leaders discuss running agentic workloads on GKE. It highlights the Agent Development Kit (ADK), containerized deployments to Artifact Registry, and why Kubernetes provides governance and fine-grained control for large-scale agents. Google demonstrated an Agent Sandbox using gVisor and strict network policies, and introduced Pod Snapshots to cut sandbox startup from minutes to seconds, enabling lower-latency, secure agent workflows.

🔁 AWS Glue zero-ETL now supports ongoing replication from self-managed Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases into Amazon Redshift in seven additional AWS Regions. The no-code integration automatically creates and manages an ongoing replication pipeline, removing much of the setup and configuration complexity. This capability reduces operational burden and can save weeks of engineering effort for teams migrating or consolidating data into Redshift. Newly added regions include Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, London, São Paulo, and US (Virginia).