All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🚀 AWS announces the public preview of AWS Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework that provides backend capabilities without requiring developers to learn infrastructure tools. It runs a fully functional local environment with Postgres, authentication, and real-time messaging with no AWS account required, and the same code can be deployed to production AWS services with zero changes. Developers can also drop into AWS CDK at any time for direct resource configuration, and AWS Blocks supports SPA and SSR frameworks at preview.

🔗 Amazon Quick now connects to 16 additional tools including Adobe, Figma, WhatsApp, Snowflake, and Smartsheet, enabling teams to act on insights without switching context. The new connectors span productivity, design, analytics, financial intelligence, commerce, and communication, so teams can build cross-tool workflows inside Quick. Integrations are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks and Databricks announce an integrated runtime security solution to protect agentic AI across the enterprise. The partnership embeds Prisma AIRS into the Databricks Unity AI Gateway to provide centralized governance, real-time inspection, and policy-driven enforcement for prompts, tool calls, and model interactions. This approach aims to prevent prompt injections, data exfiltration, and malicious tool usage while enabling faster, secure AI deployments.

🤖 Starting today, AWS Partner Central agents qualify every co-sell opportunity in real time and make actionable recommendations to accelerate AWS engagement and deal progression. Building on agents released March 16, 2026, the agent can act on the partner's behalf via conversation to enrich opportunity details, removing manual review delays. Each opportunity now receives an Opportunity Quality Score and is matched to a co-sell motion—AWS field-engaged, Agent-engaged, or Partner-led—with the score and motion recalculated in real time as recommendations are applied.

📣 Cloudflare has made DMARC Management generally available and free for customers, offering a redesigned dashboard to simplify the path to full DMARC enforcement. The tool unifies visibility into SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI, surfaces sending source IPs, and integrates Cloudflare threat intelligence for investigation. It provides automated record analysis with pass/warning/fail statuses and plain-language recommendations, plus an SPF lookup audit to reveal and resolve the 10-lookup limit. DMARC Management requires Cloudflare DNS and is enabled from Email > DMARC Management in the dashboard.

🤖 AWS Marketplace introduces AI-assisted product listing within the Partner Assistant chat to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Consulting Partners create optimized product listings using existing digital assets. The assistant imports content from websites, PDFs, case studies, and documentation, then generates, validates, and formats listing fields to meet AWS Marketplace requirements and improve search discoverability. Field-level recommendations and a quality score help partners align listings with best practices. Available via AWS Partner Central, the AWS Marketplace Management Portal, and programmatically through the Partner Agent MCP server; not available in AWS GovCloud (US) or China Regions.

🔒 Chainguard has launched Athena, an industry coalition announced on June 16 to protect open-source software from attacks facilitated by frontier AI models. Founding members include BNY, Cisco, Cloudflare, Docker, JPMorganChase, PwC and others. Athena pools vulnerability findings into a shared platform, applies private patches and provides mitigations to members before public disclosure. The initiative aims to coordinate upstream fixes and partner with the Linux Foundation for broader incident response support.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server introduces memory-optimized X2m instances based on EC2 X2iedn. These instances deliver up to 64 vCPUs, 4 TB memory, 256K IOPS and a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio while providing the Amazon RDS Optimize CPU feature to reduce SQL Server licensing by 50% or more for memory-intensive workloads. X2m instances are available via the RDS Console, AWS SDK, or CLI, support On-Demand pricing and qualify for the AWS Database Savings Plan; refer to Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for specifics.

🔔 AWS Partner Central introduces Business Value Realization (BVR), a new experience and funding motion that helps partners drive customer adoption and measurable business outcomes after deploying strategic AWS services. Partners can self-enroll, nominate customer opportunities, and monitor progress through defined adoption stages with guided activities. AI agents generate weekly adoption reports highlighting progress, risks, and recommendations, while funding is automatically disbursed when stages are completed.

🔍 At Google Cloud, collaboration with customers guided a technical sprint in January 2026 with a major telecommunications partner to refine Model Armor, the runtime security service for generative AI. By embedding with the customer's developers and security teams, the Google Cloud Developer Advocacy group observed real-world workflows and identified friction points such as search-first documentation needs, tuning confidence levels to avoid false positives, clearer enforcement guidance, and IAM-related 403 errors during integrations. The team translated these findings into tested code samples, a confidence level matrix, explicit integration guides for Apigee, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and GKE, and deeper technical documentation to improve operational utility and reduce deployment friction.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announces that S3 Vectors now reduces data-processed query charges by up to 80% for vector indexes containing more than 10 million vectors. This price improvement automatically applies with no changes required to customer applications and targets similarity search workloads used in AI, RAG, and semantic search scenarios. The reduction is effective today across all Regions where S3 Vectors is available, while AWS still recommends distributing vectors across multiple indexes for better query performance.

🔔 Partners co-selling with AWS can now automate private offer pricing within co-sell workflows. By predefining pricing rules, discount limits, and eligible products, partners enable AWS sellers to convert opportunities to private offers quickly, shortening what used to be weeks of negotiation into minutes. Customers receive tailored offers based on their specifications, and partners gain visibility and direct follow-up access to assist with acceptance and context.

🔔 AWS Marketplace reduced its listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%, making it more economical for consulting partners, systems integrators, managed service providers and ISVs to transact services. The change applies automatically to new private offers across all AWS Regions, pricing models, and currencies, while existing offers remain on their original terms. Partners can list through AWS Partner Central and customers can discover services via AI-powered features and multi-product solutions.

🟢 AWS introduces the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization that validates Services Partners with expertise in transforming contact centers and embedding AI across customer interactions. The competency covers two categories: Contact Center Transformation and AI-Powered Customer Experience, recognizing partners who migrate legacy contact centers and operationalize AI at scale on Amazon Connect. This competency replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027.

🛒 AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, enabling AWS Partners to create and deploy branded catalogs of solutions and services on their own websites or applications in hours. Channel Partners and ISVs can import listings with no code, use AWS Marketplace billing for transactions, and automate deal workflows with private offer templates and CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot. The storefront supports curated catalogs on partners' domains and is available in all AWS Marketplace regions.

🤝 Today AWS announced general availability of onboarding agents for AWS Partner Central. The agent serves as an always-available advisor that guides new partners through profile setup, verifications, tax and payment setup, compliance, and preparing listings on Marketplace. Partners can interact with the agent in the AWS Partner Central console or programmatically via Model Context Protocol (MCP). The agent auto-populates partner profiles using company website data and provides a personalized roadmap to accelerate readiness to sell with AWS.

🚀 AWS announced a public preview that extends AWS Transform for migrations to replicate block storage workloads directly to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. The capability lets application owners and cloud migration teams move block and NFS datastores from on‑premises or other clouds into FSx for ONTAP alongside compute and network migrations. This removes intermediate storage platforms and separate migration tools, simplifying workflows and reducing cost and risk. FSx for ONTAP provides a fully managed ONTAP-based destination to preserve enterprise storage features while leveraging AWS scale and resiliency.

🆕 Amazon S3 now supports annotations, enabling attachment of custom JSON, XML, or YAML metadata to objects at up to 1GB per object to provide business context for AI agents and analytics tools. Annotations persist with objects through replication and copy operations, can be modified or deleted at any time, and share the same durability and consistency as the object. You can surface annotations in S3 Metadata for query via Apache Iceberg tables, or search them with natural language using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and supporting tools.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. These instances deliver up to 2x performance versus P5en for AI training and inference and include 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory. They offer a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth, 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, and up to 3.2 Tbps of EFAv4 networking, powered by the AWS Nitro System.

⚠️ This article launches Unit 42's series Inside the Modern SOC, drawing on customer environments, SOC assessments and investigations to highlight a defining challenge: the speed gap. Attack timelines have compressed dramatically — in some cases from initial access to data exfiltration in about 72 minutes — driven by identity-driven tactics and AI-accelerated adversaries. The piece emphasizes that manual, sequential workflows and fragmented tooling leave defenders behind and argues for automated correlation, predefined response actions and behavior-focused detection to close the gap.