All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🧭 Amazon CloudWatch launched an AI-powered incident report generator that guides teams through a Five Whys root-cause analysis using a chat-based workflow powered by Amazon Q. The feature combines human inputs and automated analysis of incident data to recommend specific remediation and prevention measures. It is available at no additional cost in multiple AWS regions. To use it, create a CloudWatch investigation, click "Incident report," then select "Guide Me" in the Five Whys section.

🌐Amazon announced the preview of Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver, an internet-reachable DNS resolver that offers secure, anycast-based resolution for authorized clients worldwide. It supports split DNS for public domains and Route 53 private hosted zones and integrates DNS Firewall rules to block threat categories, malicious content, and advanced DNS attacks while logging queries centrally. Global Resolver provides high availability via selection of two or more regions for anycast resolution with automatic failover, and AWS will rename the existing Route 53 Resolver to Route 53 VPC Resolver to clarify the difference.

🚀 AWS announced a major expansion of its AI Competency, validating 60 partners across three new Agentic AI categories: Agentic AI Tools, Agentic AI Applications, and Agentic AI Consulting Services. The launch includes an AI agent in AWS Partner Central to provide immediate feedback and speed specialization approvals. Validated partners demonstrate production-grade capabilities using services such as Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents, and Amazon SageMaker AI, and must meet AWS standards for security, reliability, and responsible AI.

🚀 Amazon EKS Capabilities is now generally available, offering a fully managed, extensible set of Kubernetes-native platform features that offload operations to AWS. The capabilities run in AWS-owned infrastructure separate from customer clusters and AWS handles autoscaling, patching, and upgrades. Launch features include Argo CD for continuous deployment, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for resource management, and Kube Resource Orchestrator (KRO) for dynamic orchestration.

🤖 Amazon SageMaker Catalog now provides automated data classification that suggests business glossary terms during dataset publishing to reduce manual tagging and improve metadata consistency. The capability leverages Amazon Bedrock language models to analyze table metadata and schema and recommend relevant business and sensitive-data terms from organizational glossaries. Data producers receive AI-generated suggestions they can accept or modify before publishing, helping standardize vocabulary and improve data discoverability. The feature is available in multiple AWS regions and can be managed via SageMaker Unified Studio, the AWS CLI, or SDKs.

🔔 AWS has integrated AWS Partner Central directly into the AWS Management Console, giving Partners streamlined access to Partner Central and the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. The release includes expanded APIs to automate co-sell workflows and Marketplace operations, plus enhanced security and user management built on AWS Identity and Access Management with granular permissions and SSO. The console experience is available in all Regions and migration guidance is provided in the existing portal.

⚙️ AWS Lambda Managed Instances lets you run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 instances while preserving Lambda's serverless operational model. AWS fully manages instance lifecycle tasks — including OS and runtime patching, routing, load balancing, and autoscaling — and exposes the broad EC2 instance catalog (including Graviton4 and high‑bandwidth networking). You attach functions to a configurable capacity provider via Console, APIs or IaC, and the service integrates with CloudWatch, X‑Ray and AWS Config; current Java, Node.js, Python and .NET runtimes are supported. The feature is now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Ireland).

🔔 AWS Marketplace now offers express private offers, enabling customers to receive personalized pricing and contract terms for participating third-party products in minutes. The AI-powered workflow asks a few questions about purchase requirements and contract duration, then evaluates responses against a seller's preconfigured pricing rules to generate an offer. If needs exceed those parameters, customers can be routed to sales for more tailored deals. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where the Marketplace site is supported.

🔧 The AWS MCP Server is now in preview and offers a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface that consolidates the prior AWS API MCP and AWS Knowledge servers into a single endpoint. It enables AI agents and AI-native IDEs to access AWS documentation, generate and execute calls to over 15,000 APIs, and follow pre-built Agent SOPs to perform multi-step tasks. Authentication and authorization use AWS IAM, and audit logging is provided via CloudTrail; the service is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia), with customers paying only for resources and data transfer.

🔧 AWS has expanded its Resilience Competency to include Technology Partners, enabling customers to identify validated software for high availability and recovery. The program evaluates solutions across Design, Recovery, and Operate categories through expert technical validation to meet strict performance and operational requirements. Qualified partners and solutions are discoverable via the AWS Resilience Competency and purchasable through AWS Marketplace, aligning with AWS's shared responsibility model. This aims to help organizations build always-on applications with lower cost and higher availability than on-premises alternatives.

🔌 AWS Interconnect - last mile is a fully managed connectivity service launched in a gated preview with Lumen, letting customers connect branch offices, data centers, and remote sites to AWS in a few clicks. Users enter a location, select bandwidth (1–100 Gbps), and pick an AWS Region while AWS automates BGP peering, VLAN configuration, and ASN assignment, supporting dynamic scaling and zero‑downtime maintenance. The service is architected for high availability, backed by SLAs, and enables MACsec encryption by default; it is available in the US through Lumen.

🛡️ AWS and CrowdStrike have launched an automated integration experience for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM in AWS Marketplace that streamlines cloud-native security monitoring. The guided wizard automates connector configuration and provisions least-privilege IAM roles, Amazon SQS queues, EventBridge rules, and SNS topics. Security teams can quickly enable agentic AI-assisted investigation, advanced correlation, and automated response across their AWS Organization, and subscribe via new pay-as-you-go pricing.

🔗 AWS has opened a preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud, a new service to create private, resilient, high-speed links between Amazon VPCs and other cloud providers. The preview launches with Google Cloud as the initial partner and a planned expansion to Microsoft Azure in 2026. It integrates with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Cloud WAN, and Amazon VPC, and is available in five AWS Regions via the AWS Management Console. CSPs can adopt the capability through a published open API package on GitHub.

🔍 AWS has announced general availability of multimodal retrieval in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, enabling unified search across text, images, audio, and video. The managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow provides developers full control over ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding (including Amazon Nova multimodal), and vector storage. Users can submit text or image queries and receive relevant text, image, audio, and video segments back, which can be combined with the LLM of their choice to generate richer, lower-latency responses. Region availability varies by feature set and is documented by AWS.

🔒 AWS announced IAM Policy Autopilot, an open-source MCP server and CLI that analyzes Python, TypeScript, and Go code locally to generate baseline, identity-based IAM policies for application roles. It integrates with AI coding assistants such as Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor to speed policy creation. The tool stays current with AWS services and is available at no additional cost for local use. Generated policies are intended as starting points that require review and least-privilege refinement.

📢 AWS Marketplace now offers variable payments, a general-availability billing option that lets professional services sellers invoice customers as work is delivered while enforcing a predetermined contract cap. Sellers can create private offers and submit payment requests tied to outcomes, milestones, or time-and-materials. Customers receive email notifications and can approve each request manually or enable auto-approval for streamlined processing. The feature increases engagement flexibility and buyer transparency and reduces the need for full upfront payments or rigid installment schedules.

🤖 AWS has launched the AWS AI League 2026 Championship, expanding its flagship AI tournament with new challenge tracks and a doubled prize pool of $50,000 to drive builder innovation. The program pairs a brief orientation with two competition tracks: a Model Customization track using Amazon SageMaker AI to fine-tune foundation models for domain-specific tasks, and an Agentic AI track using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build planning and execution agents. Enterprises can apply to host internal tournaments and receive AWS credits to run team competitions, while individual developers can compete at AWS Summits to test skills and build with AWS AI services.

⚠️ Researchers warn a cross-tenant blind spot in Microsoft Teams can allow attackers to sidestep Microsoft Defender for Office 365 when users accept guest access in another tenant. Protections follow the hosting tenant, not the user's home organization, enabling attackers to create protection-free malicious tenants using low-tier licenses. Organizations should restrict B2B invitations, enable cross-tenant access controls, and train users to reject unsolicited guest invites.

🔒 Microsoft will update its Content Security Policy to block unauthorized script injection during browser-based Entra ID sign-ins at login.microsoftonline.com. The policy will permit script downloads only from Microsoft-trusted CDN domains and allow inline execution solely from trusted Microsoft sources. Rolled out globally in mid-to-late October 2026 under the Secure Future Initiative, the change excludes Microsoft Entra External ID. Organizations should test sign-in flows and avoid browser extensions or tools that inject code to prevent authentication friction.

🔍 GreyNoise Labs has launched GreyNoise IP Check, a free scanner that lets users determine whether an IP address has been observed performing malicious scanning activity, including botnets and residential proxy traffic. The web tool returns one of three statuses — Clean, Malicious/Suspicious, or Common Business Service — and, when applicable, provides a 90-day activity timeline to help pinpoint potential infection points. A rate-limit-free JSON API is available for integration, and GreyNoise recommends conducting malware scans, updating device firmware, securing router credentials, and disabling unneeded remote access when an IP appears suspicious.