All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🛡️ CrowdStrike’s Falcon Shield adds centralized, cross-platform visibility and governance for AI agents while natively integrating first-party SaaS telemetry into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. The update automatically inventories and classifies agents, maps privileges to human and service identities, and detects risky configurations and agent-to-agent misuse. Teams can alert or suspend agents and associated accounts through Falcon Fusion SOAR, applying human identity controls to AI-driven automation.

🚀 Cloudflare has significantly upgraded Python Workers to support any package compatible with Pyodide, delivering a more complete Python-native developer experience. Rather than shipping a limited set of built-ins, developers can install pure-Python and many dynamic-library packages using the integrated uv tooling and pywrangler. Cloudflare also uses dedicated memory snapshots and its isolate-based architecture to achieve markedly faster cold starts than competing serverless options while keeping easy, global deployment and free-tier options.

🔒 Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Email Security, recognizing advances in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. The announcement highlights agentic AI innovations and automated workflows—including an agentic email grading system and the Microsoft Security Copilot Phishing Triage Agent—that reduce manual triage and speed investigations. Microsoft also cites new protections like email bombing detection and expanded coverage across collaboration surfaces such as Microsoft Teams, while committing to greater transparency through in-product benchmarking and reporting.

🔒 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports accessing SES API endpoints via Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. Customers can use VPC endpoints to send email and manage SES resource configuration without routing API traffic through an internet gateway, reducing exposure of VPC activity to the public internet. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where SES is offered, simplifying private network architectures.

📢 Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in 10 additional commercial AWS Regions, bringing total coverage to 27 Regions and aligning Mail Manager availability with where SES Outbound is offered. Mail Manager centralizes email routing, governance, and compliance controls for domain-based sending, helping organizations replace legacy relays and streamline integrations with mailbox providers and email security vendors. It also supports onward delivery to WorkMail, built-in archiving with search and export, and console-based third-party security add-ons to simplify operations.

📣 Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports WhatsApp, enabling proactive, automated messaging for appointment reminders, payment notifications, order updates, and product recommendations. Administrators can configure WhatsApp campaigns in the existing Amazon Connect interface—define target audiences, personalize message templates, schedule delivery, and apply compliance guardrails alongside SMS, voice, and email. Messages can leverage real-time customer data and include delivery and engagement tracking as well as frequency controls to maintain compliance. This capability is available in all AWS Regions that support Outbound Campaigns.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides automatic semantic enrichment for managed domains, extending an earlier capability from OpenSearch Serverless to managed clusters and enabling semantic search with minimal configuration. The feature performs semantic processing automatically so customers do not need to manage ML models. It supports English-only and multilingual variants across 15 languages (including Arabic, French, Hindi, Japanese, and Korean) and is billed based on ingestion usage as OpenSearch Compute Unit (OCU) - Semantic Search. The capability requires OpenSearch 2.19 or later and is currently available for non‑VPC domains in selected AWS Regions; see the OpenSearch Service documentation for setup and configuration details.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Notebook instances now support self-service migration via the PlatformIdentifier parameter in the UpdateNotebookInstance API. You can update unsupported platform identifiers (notebook-al1-v1, notebook-al2-v1, notebook-al2-v2) to supported versions (notebook-al2-v3, notebook-al2023-v1) while preserving data and configurations. The capability is available through AWS CLI (v2.31.27+) and SDKs in all Regions where Notebook instances are supported. This simplifies keeping instances current and reduces manual migration effort.

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), enabling developers to deploy applications that benefit from the latest V8 engine updates, npm 11, and platform-level security and performance improvements. You can create environments via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API. The platform is available in all commercial AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

📣 Amazon Bedrock now offers TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.2 via Global cross-Region inference, expanding availability by 23 new Regions in addition to the seven where it was already supported. You can also access the model in all EU Regions using Geographic cross-Region inference to meet data-residency requirements. Pegasus 1.2 is a video-first model for long-form video-to-text generation and temporal understanding, enabling lower latency and simplified architecture for video-intelligence applications.

🔁 Back Market migrated its data and core tech stack from AWS-based Snowflake and Databricks to Google Cloud, consolidating all historical and operational data in BigQuery. The team executed a two-week proof of concept and a live double-run migration that kept production on Databricks while writing to cloned BigQuery tables until outputs matched. They replaced AWS DMS with Datastream, implemented hourly batching to control small-file costs, and completed critical switchover in six months. The move halved data processing times, cut CDC costs by 90%, reduced technical debt, and improved observability, governance, and developer productivity.

🔐 This post from Adrien Delaroche at Google Cloud outlines three architectures for AI agents that interact with blockchains: the agent-controlled custodial model, a self-hosted variant, and the non-custodial transaction-crafter model. It explains security, performance, and malice risks when agents hold private keys and recommends returning unsigned transactions so users sign locally. The author demonstrates a sample implementation using Google ADK, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Cloud Run, and an Ethereum faucet, and urges MCP servers to support both signing and unsigned flows to balance automation with user safety.

🔍 Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now offers Beta segmentation powered by Spark SQL, enabling analysts to build sophisticated customer segments from both custom and standard profile objects. You can join objects, apply statistical functions such as percentiles, and standardize date fields for complex temporal analysis, or use the Segment AI assistant to translate natural language into Spark SQL. AI-generated queries include plain-language explanations and automatic membership estimates so you can review and validate results before deployment. These capabilities work alongside existing segmentation features and integrate with segment membership calls, Flow blocks, and Outbound Campaigns, and are available in all AWS regions where Customer Profiles is offered.

🔍 Modern security teams can no longer rely solely on static, passive internet-scan datasets to understand their external attack surface. Continuous, automated, active reconnaissance verifies what is actually exposed daily, catching ephemeral assets, misconfigurations, and shadow IT that periodic scans miss. Sprocket Security presents an ASM-driven approach that emphasizes validation, ownership attribution, and prioritized, actionable findings to reduce noise and speed remediation. This defensive, non-intrusive enumeration is environment-aware and designed to map changing cloud footprints in near real time.

🔒 The U.S. Department of Transportation has moved its workforce to Google Workspace with Gemini, becoming the first cabinet-level agency to transition away from legacy providers under the GSA OneGov Strategy. More than 12,000 users are already on Workspace, with roughly 40,000 additional employees slated to migrate in 2026. The deployment integrated NotebookLM, Chrome Enterprise Premium, and Workspace Enterprise Plus with Assured Controls Plus, and the foundational system was delivered in just 22 days. DOT emphasizes FedRAMP High authorization, 100% U.S.-based support, and AI-enabled workflows to strengthen security, collaboration, and operational efficiency.

🚨 Cloudflare is experiencing an outage that is causing many websites to return an 500 Internal Server Error. The fault appears to be server-side and affects requests routed through Cloudflare, so users see an error page instead of normal content. Engineers at the provider are investigating the root cause and working to restore normal operations. This remains a developing situation and impacted sites may be unavailable until services are recovered.

🔍 Amazon Q now analyzes email sending in Amazon SES, enabling customers to ask natural-language questions about SES resource configuration, usage patterns, and deliverability issues. Q evaluates usage data and resource settings to surface optimization opportunities and troubleshooting steps, reducing the need for deep email-sending expertise. Support is available in all Regions where SES and Q are offered.

🐍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.14 on Amazon Linux 2023, allowing developers to build and deploy applications that take advantage of the latest interpreter features, improved error messages, and updated security and API behavior. The platform update also enhances the interactive interpreter experience and aligns runtime behavior with modern Python improvements. Environments can be provisioned via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API, and are available in all commercial AWS Regions including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔔 AWS now enables centralized collection of CloudTrail events in Amazon CloudWatch, allowing organizations to consolidate telemetry alongside VPC Flow Logs and EKS Control Plane Logs. The integration leverages service-linked channels (SLCs) to receive events without requiring trails and adds safety checks plus termination protection. Customers will incur CloudTrail event delivery charges and CloudWatch Logs ingestion fees based on custom logs pricing; consult the CloudWatch documentation for supported regions and enablement steps.

📢 AWS has announced that AWS Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector are now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS Managed Microsoft AD is built on actual Microsoft Active Directory and helps reduce the operational burden of running AD infrastructure in AWS while enabling domain join for EC2, containers, and Kubernetes. AD Connector acts as a proxy to let AWS services use existing on-premises AD identities and group policies without provisioning AD in the cloud.