All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🚀 Amazon Bedrock expanded its model catalog with 18 new fully managed open-weight models, the largest single addition to date. The offering includes Gemma 3, Mistral Large 3, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2, OpenAI gpt-oss variants and other vendor models. Through a unified API, developers can evaluate, switch, and adopt these models in production without rewriting applications or changing infrastructure. Models are available in supported AWS Regions.

🔁 AWS announced Lambda durable functions, a built-in capability for authoring reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. Durable functions automatically checkpoint execution, can suspend runs for up to one year, and recover from failures without requiring additional infrastructure. New primitives like steps and waits let developers pause and resume logic without incurring compute charges, while the service handles state and error recovery so teams can focus on business logic.

🔁 Amazon S3 Tables now support automatic replication of Apache Iceberg tables across AWS Regions and accounts, duplicating full table structure, snapshots, and metadata to destination buckets. The feature creates read-only replica tables, backfills them to the source's latest state, and continuously monitors for updates while allowing independent snapshot retention and encryption settings per replica. Replicas are queryable with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or any Iceberg-compatible engine such as Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark, and DuckDB. This capability is available in all Regions where S3 Tables are supported.

🚀Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers GPU-accelerated, auto-optimized vector indexes that let teams build billion-scale vector databases in under an hour. Serverless GPU acceleration can speed index builds up to 10X while reducing indexing cost to roughly a quarter of previous expenses. Auto-optimize jobs evaluate k-NN algorithms, quantization, and engine settings against specified latency and recall targets to produce configuration recommendations without manual tuning. These capabilities support vector collections and OpenSearch 2.17+/3.1+ domains across multiple regions.

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch now provides unified data management and analytics to consolidate operational, security, and compliance data across AWS and third-party sources. The launch enables organization-wide ingestion from AWS sources such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC, and Amazon WAF, plus managed collectors for CrowdStrike, Okta, and Palo Alto Networks. Customers can use pipelines to transform and enrich logs to standard formats like OCSF and define facets for faster insights. Data can be stored in managed Amazon S3 Tables at no additional storage charge and queried natively or with any Apache Iceberg-compatible analytics tool.

🚀 Amazon announced Nova 2 Omni, an all‑in‑one multimodal model in preview that accepts text, images, video, and speech inputs while producing text and image outputs. It offers a 1M token context window, supports 200+ languages for text and 10 for speech, and provides image generation/editing and multi‑speaker speech transcription with native reasoning. Early access is available to Nova Forge and authorized customers.

🔒 AWS today announced the preview of AWS Security Agent, an AI-powered agent that automates security validation across the application development lifecycle. The service lets security teams define organizational requirements once and then evaluates architecture and code against those standards, offering contextual remediation guidance. For deployments, it performs context-aware penetration testing and logs API activity to CloudTrail; the preview is available in US East (N. Virginia). AWS states customer data and queries are not used to train models.

🚀 Amazon Web Services previewed EC2 C8ine instances built on custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Granite Rapids) and the new Nitro v6 card. These instances are optimized for dataplane packet-processing workloads and can deliver up to 2.5× higher packet performance per vCPU versus prior C6in instances, with up to 2× higher internet-gateway bandwidth and up to 3× more ENIs. Targeted use cases include security virtual appliances, firewalls, load balancers, DDoS protection systems, and Telco 5G UPF. Preview access is available upon request through your AWS account team.

🤖AWS has introduced Amazon Nova 2, a next-generation family of foundation models now available in Amazon Bedrock. The release includes Nova 2 Lite, optimized for fast, cost-effective reasoning for everyday workloads, and Nova 2 Pro (Preview), designed for complex, multistep tasks. Both models support step-by-step reasoning, three thinking intensity levels, built-in tools such as code interpreter and web grounding, remote MCP tool support, and a one-million-token context window. Nova 2 Lite supports supervised fine-tuning on Bedrock and SageMaker; full fine-tuning is available on SageMaker. Nova 2 Pro is available in preview for Amazon Nova Forge customers with global cross-region inference.

🔧 AWS announced the preview of AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent designed to investigate incidents and proactively prevent outages across AWS, multicloud, and hybrid environments. The agent autonomously triages alerts, correlates telemetry, code, and deployment data, and guides teams to faster resolution to reduce MTTR. During preview it is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia).

🔔 SecAlerts provides a streamlined, cloud-native vulnerability notification service that maps new advisories directly to the software you run, avoiding intrusive scans or local installs. Using near-real-time sources rather than relying solely on the NVD, it reduces alert noise through configurable Stacks, Channels, and Alerts, so teams only receive actionable notifications. The platform includes a searchable Feed, visualised severity metrics, per-client properties for MSSPs, an API for integrations, and audit-ready reporting to accelerate remediation.

🧭 Amazon CloudWatch now offers AgentCore Evaluations, an automated capability for assessing AI agent quality using real-world interactions. The feature includes 13 pre-built evaluators that measure dimensions such as helpfulness, tool selection, and response accuracy, and it also supports custom model-based scoring. Teams can access unified quality metrics, agent telemetry, and end-to-end traces in CloudWatch dashboards to correlate evaluations with prompts, logs, and traces for faster diagnosis and improvement.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Catalog now exports asset metadata as an Apache Iceberg table via Amazon S3 Tables, enabling teams to query catalog inventory with standard SQL without building custom ETL. The export includes technical fields (resource_id, resource_type), business metadata (asset_name, business_description), ownership details, and timestamps, partitioned by snapshot_date for time travel queries. The dataset appears in SageMaker Unified Studio and is queryable from Amazon Athena, Studio notebooks, AI agents, and BI tools. Available in all supported Regions at no additional SageMaker charge; you pay for S3 Tables storage and Athena queries.

🤖 Amazon API Gateway now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) via a proxy, enabling organizations to expose existing REST APIs to AI agents and MCP clients without modifying their applications. Integrated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's Gateway, the feature performs protocol translation, indexes APIs for semantic tool discovery, and eliminates the need to host additional intermediary infrastructure. It also enforces dual authentication to verify agent identities for inbound requests while managing secure outbound connections to REST endpoints. The capability is available in nine AWS Regions and follows Amazon Bedrock AgentCore pricing.

🗃️ Amazon S3 Tables now support the Intelligent-Tiering storage class to automatically optimize table storage costs based on access patterns, without impacting performance or adding operational overhead. Data not accessed for 30 days moves to the Infrequent Access tier (≈40% lower cost), and after 90 days moves to Archive Instant Access (≈68% lower cost), enabling up to 80% storage savings. Automated table maintenance (compaction, snapshot expiration, unreferenced file removal) does not trigger tiering, and you can select Intelligent-Tiering per table or set it as the default for new tables in a table bucket across all regions where S3 Tables are available.

🚀 AWS announced the new Amazon EC2 X8aedz memory-optimized instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin), offering up to 5 GHz peak CPU frequency and up to 2× compute performance versus X2iezn. Targeted at electronic design automation (EDA) workloads and relational databases that benefit from high single-thread performance and large memory footprints, X8aedz provides a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, local NVMe storage up to 8 TB, and sizes from 2 to 96 vCPUs including two bare-metal options. Instances are available in US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and can be purchased via On‑Demand, Spot, or Savings Plans.

🧠 Amazon SageMaker AI now offers a serverless MLflow capability that automatically scales to support experiment tracking and model development without infrastructure setup. The service scales up for demanding workloads and scales down during idle periods, reducing operational overhead. Administrators can enable cross-account access via Resource Access Manager (RAM). The feature integrates with SageMaker AI JumpStart, Model Registry, and Pipelines and is offered at no additional charge in select AWS Regions.

🔁 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming, enabling real-time, continuous conversations where agents listen and respond simultaneously and handle interruptions or context shifts mid-turn. This removes stop-start friction in voice and text agents and preserves context across exchanges. Built into AgentCore Runtime, the capability reduces months of engineering work required to implement streaming infrastructure, letting developers focus on agent experiences rather than plumbing. Available in nine AWS Regions with consumption-based pricing.

🔍 NETSCOUT’s Omnis Cyber Intelligence was named “Overall Network Security Solution of the Year” in the ninth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. The platform delivers always-on, packet-based visibility using scalable deep packet inspection to continuously capture, analyze, and retain high-fidelity network metadata. Its on-sensor storage minimizes data movement and helps address compliance and sovereignty requirements while providing the historical context analysts need to investigate threats across cloud and on-premises environments.

🔍 Recent ESG research finds that many organizations still turn to the network first for threat detection: 53% cite network visibility as their primary defense and 93% of SecOps and NetOps now share visibility tools. Packets offer an unaltered record of communications, making modern NDR essential across hybrid and multicloud environments. Detection is only the first step; full packet capture and deep network intelligence enable thorough investigation. NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Intelligence unifies visibility and delivers packet-level context to reduce blind spots and accelerate response.