All news in category "Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch"

Building Software Sustainably with AI and Efficiency

🌱 Google presents a Sustainable by Design approach to reduce the environmental footprint of AI and software. The post highlights projects like Green Light and Project Contrails, improvements in hardware efficiency such as Ironwood TPUs, and a fleet-wide Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.09. It introduces the 4Ms—Machine, Model, Mechanisation, Map—to guide infrastructure and development choices. The emphasis is on embedding efficiency across the software lifecycle to cut energy use, costs, and water consumption.

Vertex AI Agent Builder: Build, Scale, Govern Agents

🚀 Vertex AI Agent Builder is Google Cloud's integrated platform to build, scale, and govern production AI agents. The update expands the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Agent Engine with configurable context layers to reduce token usage, an adaptable plugins framework, and new language SDK support including Go. Production features include observability, evaluation tools, simplified deployment via the ADK CLI, and strengthened governance with native agent identities and Model Armor protections.

Buildertrend Migrates to Memorystore for Valkey at Scale

🚀 Buildertrend describes migrating from Memorystore for Redis to Google Cloud’s managed Memorystore for Valkey to gain native cross‑regional replication, improved networking via Private Service Connect, and performance advantages. The team exported cache data to Google Cloud Storage and seeded Valkey instances to minimize downtime, eliminated a proxy layer, and now uses Valkey for caching, session state, job queues, pub/sub idempotency, and authentication tokens.

When Cybersecurity Theory Meets Operational Reality

🧭 Security teams often implement best practices but face operational gaps: undocumented cloud assets, interrupted scan schedules, noisy threat feeds and endpoints left unmonitored. The piece explains how these real‑world failures turn ideal controls into misleading dashboards and alert fatigue. It warns that stitching together point products multiplies complexity and slows response, and recommends a unified approach that correlates EASM and DRP signals so teams can prioritize remediation with context, citing Outpost24 and its CompassDRP solution as an example.

AWS Marketplace Enables Local INR Transactions for India

🇮🇳 Buyers and sellers in India can now transact locally on AWS Marketplace using INR, with invoices issued in Indian Rupees and tax compliance facilitated by AWS India. India-based sellers can register to sell paid offerings, create private offers in USD or INR, and work with India-based Channel Partners. AWS India will automate WHT and GST-TCS collection and remittance to authorities, simplifying buyer compliance.

AWS Launches Memory-Optimized EC2 R8a Instances, GA

🧠 AWS has announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 R8a memory-optimized instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) with up to 4.5 GHz. R8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance and 45% more memory bandwidth versus R7a. Available in 12 sizes (including 2 bare metal) and SAP-certified, R8a targets latency-sensitive, memory-intensive workloads and supports Savings Plans, On-Demand and Spot purchasing.

Keyspaces Multi-Region Replication: Bahrain and Hong Kong

🔁Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) to support Multi-Region Replication in Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). The managed capability automatically replicates tables across Regions with typically less than one second of replication lag, allowing applications to read and write the same table in multiple Regions. Customers gain lower latency, improved regional resiliency, and can replicate between these Regions and any other supported AWS Region while paying only for resources they use.

AWS CloudWatch Application Signals Adds AI Canary Debugging

🔍 CloudWatch Application Signals (Model Context Protocol / MCP Server) now ingests CloudWatch Synthetics canary data to enable AI-powered debugging of synthetic-monitoring failures. From natural-language prompts like “Why is my checkout canary failing?”, supported AI assistants (for example Amazon Q or Claude) drive diagnostics that correlate canary failures with metrics, traces, and dependencies. The system analyzes HAR files, CloudWatch Logs, S3 artifacts, and configuration to triage issues across network, authentication, performance, script, infrastructure, and dependency layers. This capability is available in all commercial AWS regions where CloudWatch Synthetics is offered; customers must have access to a compatible AI agent to use the AI-driven debugging features.

Amazon GameLift Streams Adds AWS Health Lifecycle Alerts

🔔 Amazon GameLift Streams now integrates with AWS Health to deliver automated lifecycle notifications for stream groups. AWS Health will send reminders on day 45 and day 150 about upcoming restrictions at day 180, and a final reminder on day 335 before automatic expiration on day 365. Stream groups older than 180 days cannot add new applications. The feature is available in all Regions at no extra cost, and the ExpiresAt field in the GetStreamGroup API or the Stream group details page in the console shows status.

Addressing the AI Black Box with Prisma AIRS 2.0 Platform

🔒 Prisma AIRS 2.0 presents a unified AI security platform that addresses the “AI black box” by combining AI Model Security and automated AI Red Teaming. It inventories models, inference datasets, applications and agents in real time, inspects model artifacts within CI/CD and model registries, and conducts continuous, context-aware adversarial testing. The platform integrates curated threat intelligence and governance mappings to deliver auditable risk scores and prioritized remediation guidance for enterprise teams.

Cloudflare Workers VPC Services Enter Open Beta Today

🌐 Cloudflare announced the open beta of Workers VPC Services, enabling Workers to securely reach APIs, containers, VMs, serverless functions and databases inside regional private networks via Cloudflare Tunnels. Developers register services by hostname or IP and bind them to Workers, with access verified at deploy time to restrict Workers to only the declared service. The model reduces cloud lock‑in, mitigates SSRF risk, and is available free during the beta.

Securing the Open Android Ecosystem with Samsung Knox

🔒 Samsung Knox is a built-in security platform for Samsung Galaxy devices that combines hardware- and software-level protections to safeguard enterprise data and provide IT teams with centralized control. It layers defenses — including AI-powered malware detection, curated app controls, Message Guard for zero-click image scanning, and DEFEX exploit detection — while integrating with EMMs and offering granular update management via Knox E-FOTA. The platform emphasizes visibility, policy enforcement, and predictable lifecycle management to reduce risk and operational disruption.

Preventing SOC Burnout with Real-Time Analysis and Automation

🛡️ SOC teams can reduce analyst burnout by replacing noisy alerts and manual chores with real-time behavioral context, automation, and integrated threat intelligence. Platforms such as ANY.RUN deliver interactive sandboxing that exposes full attack chains, automates human-like interactions (for example, solving CAPTCHAs and revealing hidden redirects), and pushes verified IOCs directly into SOC workflows. Organizations report up to 3× faster triage, fewer false positives, and a calmer, more resilient security operations center.

Building Collaborative AI with ADK: A Developer’s Guide

🧭 This guide summarizes Multi-Agent System (MAS) fundamentals and explains how Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) helps developers assemble cooperating agents to solve complex tasks. It outlines three agent roles — LLM Agents for reasoning, Workflow Agents for orchestration, and Custom Agents for bespoke logic — and describes hierarchical organization and orchestration patterns (sequential, parallel, loop). The post also reviews communication options (shared state, LLM delegation, explicit invocation) and points developers to samples and codelabs for rapid prototyping.

AWS Launch Wizard: SQL Server Developer Edition Deployments

🛠️ AWS Launch Wizard now provides a guided workflow to size, configure, and deploy Windows Server EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition installed from your own media. The capability simplifies provisioning cost-effective, full-featured SQL Server instances on Amazon EC2 and is aimed at developers building non-production and test database environments. It supports customers migrating non-production databases from SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions to reduce licensing costs while preserving feature parity, and is available in all supported commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Amazon CloudFront Anycast Adds IPv6 Static IP Support

🌐 Amazon Web Services announced that CloudFront now assigns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for Anycast Static IP configurations. Previously limited to IPv4, the change enables dual‑stack deployments so customers can meet IPv6 compliance and reach IPv6‑only end users. IPv6 addresses are available from all edge locations except the AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) regions operated by partner carriers. Customers should review the CloudFront Developer Guide and pricing for details.

AWS Glue Schema Registry Adds Native C# Client Support

🔧 AWS Glue Schema Registry now provides C# support in its client library, extending beyond the existing Java SDK to offer first-class integration for .NET streaming applications. C# services using Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, or Apache Flink can register, validate, and enforce schemas to keep producers and consumers aligned. The serverless registry enforces centralized schema validation at no additional charge. C# support is available in all regions where Glue Schema Registry is offered and the SDK is distributed via NuGet.

Microsoft Expands Sovereign Cloud Capabilities, EU Focus

🛡️ Microsoft announced expanded sovereign cloud offerings aimed at helping governments and enterprises meet regulatory and resilience requirements across Europe and beyond. The update includes end-to-end AI data processing within an EU Data Boundary, expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot in-country processing to 15 countries and additional rollouts through 2026, plus a refreshed Sovereign Landing Zone for simplified deployment of sovereign controls. Azure Local gains increased scale, external SAN support, and NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs for high-performance on-prem AI, along with planned disconnected operations. A new Digital Sovereignty specialization gives partners a way to validate and badge their sovereign-cloud expertise.

CrowdStrike Expands Agentic Security Workforce With Agents

🤖 CrowdStrike announced new specialized agents and an orchestration layer designed to accelerate SOC operations and automation. The launch includes a Data Onboarding Agent, a Foundry App Creation Agent, and an updated Exposure Prioritization Agent to simplify pipeline creation, app development, and continuous authenticated scanning. Integrated with Charlotte Agentic SOAR and Charlotte AI, these agents enable coordinated, machine-speed workflows while keeping analysts in control.

Falcon for XIoT Enhances OT Visibility and Speed at Scale

🔍 Falcon for XIoT introduces zero-touch asset discovery, native segmentation visibility, and a unified OT/XIoT view to reduce blind spots across industrial networks. The solution leverages DHCP data and the existing Falcon sensor to build continuous, agentless inventories and to monitor inter-device traffic without manual scan configuration. These enhancements aim to accelerate detection, simplify operations, and provide richer context for faster security decisions across IT, OT, and XIoT environments.