All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🔔 Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture (CDC) is now generally available, enabling real-time streaming of database changes to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for event-driven architectures and data integration workflows. Aurora DSQL CDC captures insert, update, and delete operations as change events and delivers them to Kinesis Data Streams with no infrastructure to manage. Use CDC to synchronize microservices, trigger AWS Lambda, or route changes to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon OpenSearch Service via Amazon Data Firehose. CDC streaming is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is designed to have zero impact on database workload performance.

🚀 Microsoft describes a multi-agent AI system within the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) that continuously evaluates and hardens its cloud services. The system combines code, configuration, identity, network, and runtime evidence to find composite vulnerabilities and assess layered defenses. It generates assurance trees tailored to each service and produces high-quality, actionable findings that speed remediation. Microsoft reports the system compresses deep security reviews from weeks to hours and that over 90% of findings were validated by engineers.

📢 Amazon Connect Customer now supports forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails, enabling unified workforce optimization across Voice, Chat, Tasks, and Email workloads. The service accounts for each channel's unique characteristics—such as concurrent handling, varying work durations, and specific service levels—so forecasts and schedules reflect real operations. Organizations can generate unified forecasts and create schedules that allocate agents efficiently across channels, ensuring consistent service levels.

🔧 Azure reframes resiliency beyond simple availability metrics to emphasize sustained operation, recoverability, and trust under real-world constraints. The platform combines zone-first design, data protection, and cyber recovery with observability and automation to help customers meet sovereignty and regulatory needs. New tooling like Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager and the Resiliency Agent shift guidance to executable, IaC-driven remediation.

🚀 AWS released Neuron 2.31.0, introducing NKI 0.5.0 with MX FP8 scale dtype, tensor indirection for indexed access patterns, and zero-cost NkiTensor view APIs. The release also brings the Neuron UltraServer Operator for Amazon EKS in public beta to automate UltraServer discovery and workload claims for Trainium UltraServer workloads. The Neuron Compiler now uses a redesigned codegen backend enabled by default on Trn2 and Trn3 for improved performance, while Runtime and Explorer add usability and debugging improvements.

🚀 Gemini Enterprise for Education has been named a Commander in the Tambellini StarChart™: 2026 AI Agents for Administrative Efficiency—Agent Platforms, ranking first in innovation and usability. The platform unifies Gemini models, agent-building tools, enterprise search, governance controls, and Google Cloud infrastructure to help institutions automate administrative workflows, support students, and enable research. Customers such as UC Riverside and Purdue report measurable operational and educational benefits from the integrated, governed agentic solution.

🔒 This guide explains regulatory timelines and a strategic playbook for CISOs and senior leaders to manage post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migrations across large organizations. It outlines the practical split between short‑lived protocol upgrades (like TLS) and long‑lived embedded devices, recommends centralized governance via a cryptography center of excellence, and emphasizes board-level framing, vendor engagement, and phased execution to meet compliance deadlines.

🔒 Fortinet outlines why unified SASE must be genuinely integrated rather than assembled from disparate products. The company highlights AI-driven security, autonomous operations, and digital experience convergence as core innovations within its FortiOS-based platform. Fortinet emphasizes hardware acceleration with FortiASIC, sovereign deployment options, and consistent policy enforcement across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. Customer recognitions and analyst placements are cited as validation of the platform’s maturity.

🛡️ Google for Startups has selected 33 cybersecurity startups for the Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity, pairing each company with experts from Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, and Wiz. The cohort addresses six focus areas including autonomous agent protection, post-quantum cryptography, and data-in-use protection. Startups span agent security, cloud posture, DLP, cryptography, and AI-native SOC tooling. The forum offers APIs, tools, training, and technical resources to accelerate AI-native security innovations.

🟢 Cloudflare introduces Meerkat, an experimental distributed consensus service designed to provide strong consistency and global fault tolerance across 330+ data centers. Built atop the QuePaxa algorithm, Meerkat lets every replica accept writes and avoids leader-timeout availability failures common in Raft. Initially internal, Meerkat hosts applications like a transactional key-value store and leasing system by converting client operations into a replicated log, ensuring linearizability and majority-based safety.

📰 DuckDuckGo's browser now blocks most video ads on YouTube, including pre-roll and in-play ads, using community-maintained uBlock Origin filter lists and its own compatibility rules. The feature is enabled by default on iOS, Mac, and Windows and can be turned on manually in Android settings. It is separate from Duck Player, and both can be used together to combine privacy protections and ad blocking while retaining standard YouTube features. Users are asked to test the new capability and submit anonymous feedback as it may be imperfect and occasionally require updates due to YouTube changes.

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These 7th-generation U7i instances use custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and provide 12TiB of DDR5 memory to support large in-memory workloads. The instances deliver 896 vCPUs, up to 100Gbps EBS and network bandwidth, and support ENA Express, targeting mission-critical databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🔒 Amazon GameLift Streams introduces Stream Session Admin Shell, a secure terminal connection for live stream sessions that enables real-time troubleshooting. You can inspect logs, query processes, check GPU utilization, and examine application state without managing SSH keys, open ports, or infrastructure credentials. The feature uses the CreateStreamSessionAdminShell API and the SSM Session Manager plugin, supports Linux, Proton, and Windows Server 2022 runtimes, and automatically closes when the session ends. It is available at no additional cost in all supported AWS Regions.

🔔 Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). The service offers purpose-built vector storage for AI agents, inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. S3 Vectors provides the elasticity, durability, and availability of Amazon S3 with dedicated APIs to store, access, and query vectors without provisioning infrastructure. Check AWS Regions and endpoints for the full availability list.

🛡️ This post explains how Amazon Bedrock’s data retention modes work and the tools you can use to enforce zero retention across accounts and projects. It covers account-level modes (none, default, inherit, provider_data_share), how model requirements interact with your configured ceiling, and APIs that mandate retention. The article also describes project-level isolation via bedrock-mantle, organization-wide enforcement using SCPs, and practical steps to lock accounts to none.

🔔 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances now charges lower management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types. Effective July 1, 2026, G-series fees are reduced by 35% and P-series and AWS Trainium fees by 60%, applied automatically with no customer action required. ECS Managed Instances continues to provision, configure, and operate optimal EC2 instances while offering GPU-specific metrics in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and automatic GPU health monitoring.

🚀 Amazon EMR Serverless now supports larger worker configurations of up to 32 vCPUs and 244 GB of memory, enabling more compute- and memory-intensive workloads. Previously, the largest worker offered was 16 vCPUs with up to 120 GB of memory. Larger workers improve runtime performance and cost profiles by reducing inefficient shuffle transfers, lowering out-of-memory risks for skewed jobs, and allowing more data to be cached in memory. These workers are available in all AWS Regions where EMR Serverless is offered.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors exclusive to AWS and include the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards, offering up to 43% higher performance than prior C6in instances. C8ine is optimized for security and network virtual appliances and delivers substantially improved packet performance and network throughput. They are offered On-Demand and via Savings Plans and join availability in other AWS regions.

📊 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenLineage-compatible data lineage in IAM-based domains, capturing events from Apache Spark on Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, SageMaker Visual ETL, and notebooks. The interactive lineage graph shows data flow with configurable depth, timestamp modes for column-level detail, and a dataset-only view. You can programmatically publish, query, manage, and delete lineage events via OpenLineage APIs and the DeleteLineageEvent API.

🧭 This guide explains how to build, register, and commercialize AI agents as Agents-as-a-Service (AaaS) for deployment in the Gemini Enterprise app and Google Cloud Marketplace. It details required artifacts like the A2A Agent Card, authentication options including OAuth and Dynamic Client Registration (DCR), and the integration points for procurement, billing, and entitlement management. The article also outlines the seller journey, testing, and the end-to-end procurement and registration lifecycle across Billing Administrator, Discovery Engine Administrator, and end-user roles.