All news in category "Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch"

AWS Cloud WAN Routing Policy for Traffic Control, Flexibility

🌐 AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN Routing Policy, delivering fine-grained controls to optimize route management and traffic behavior across global wide-area networks. The feature supports route filtering, summarization, and advanced BGP attribute configuration to limit unnecessary route propagation, prevent asymmetric or sub‑optimal paths, and contain reachability blast radius. It also exposes enhanced routing database visibility for faster troubleshooting in complex multi‑path hybrid environments. Routing Policy is available in all Regions where Cloud WAN is offered and can be enabled via the Management Console, CLI, or SDK at no additional charge.

Nano Banana Pro: Gemini 3 Pro Image for Enterprise Use

🎨 Google is unveiling Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), a high-fidelity image generation and editing model available today in Vertex AI and Google Workspace, with a rollout to Gemini Enterprise coming soon. The model supports multi-language text rendering and on-image translation, connects to Google Search for context-aware outputs, and accepts up to 14 reference images and 4K inputs for production-grade assets. Built-in SynthID watermarking and planned copyright indemnification address commercial use and responsible deployment.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service Enhancements and Compliance

🔔 The BigQuery Data Transfer Service expands its connector ecosystem with new GA integrations (Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SFMC, Facebook Ads, and GA4) and preview connectors like Stripe, PayPal, Snowflake, and Hive. Platform improvements include event-driven transfers, incremental ingestion, GAQL-based custom Google Ads reports, and enhanced Oracle scale. Security and compliance gains—EU Data Boundary GA, FedRAMP High, CJIS, access transparency, regional endpoints, and key usage tracking—support regulated workloads. A new consumption-based pricing model applies to third-party connectors once they reach GA.

BigQuery Agent Analytics: Stream and Analyze Agent Data

📊 Google introduces BigQuery Agent Analytics, an ADK plugin that streams agent interaction events into BigQuery to capture, analyze, and visualize performance, usage, and cost. The plugin provides a predefined schema and uses the BigQuery Storage Write API for low-latency, high-throughput streaming of requests, responses, and tool calls. Developers can filter and preprocess events (for example, redaction) and build dashboards in Looker Studio or Grafana while leveraging vector search and generative AI functions for deeper analysis.

AWS Offers Microsoft SQL Server 2025 License-Included AMIs

🚀 Amazon EC2 now provides License-Included (LI) AMIs for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling fast deployment of the latest SQL Server release on Windows EC2 instances. These managed images are created and maintained by AWS and default to TLS 1.3 for improved security and performance. AMIs include preinstalled management tools such as AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS CloudFormation, plus network and storage drivers. The images are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), simplifying provisioning and lifecycle management for enterprise workloads.

Amazon Braket Adds Per-Device Spending Limits for QPUs

🔒 Amazon Braket now lets customers set per-device spending limits for quantum processing units (QPUs), enabling tighter cost controls and automated validation of task submissions. Tasks that would exceed remaining budgets are rejected at submission, and limits apply only to on-demand QPU tasks—not to simulators, notebook instances, hybrid jobs, or Braket Direct reservation tasks. Available now in all supported AWS Regions at no additional charge, limits can be updated or deleted any time; researchers may also apply for AWS Cloud Credits for Research to offset experiments.

Amazon EC2 macOS Tahoe Now Available on Mac Instances

🖥️ Amazon Web Services now publishes Apple macOS Tahoe (v26) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for EC2 Mac instances, enabling developers to build and test with Xcode 26 and the latest Apple platform SDKs. These AMIs run on Apple silicon EC2 Mac instances and are backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for stable, high-performance storage. Images include the AWS CLI, Command Line Tools for Xcode, Amazon SSM Agent, and Homebrew with the AWS Homebrew Tap. macOS Tahoe AMIs are available in all AWS regions that offer Apple silicon Mac instances and can be launched via the Console, CLI, or API.

Amazon MSK Serverless Now Available in São Paulo Region

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made Amazon MSK Serverless generally available in the South America (São Paulo) region, enabling customers to connect Apache Kafka applications without managing cluster capacity. MSK Serverless automatically provisions and scales compute and storage resources on demand, letting teams run Kafka with reduced operational overhead. This expansion aligns São Paulo with AWS's global GA regions.

Kinesis Data Streams: 50 Enhanced Fan-Out Consumers

🚀 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers for accounts using On-demand Advantage. The higher consumer limit enables many independent, low-latency, high-throughput applications—such as parallel analytics, machine learning pipelines, and compliance workflows—to attach to the same stream without creating extra streams or causing throughput contention. On-demand Advantage is an account-level setting that changes pricing and capabilities, offering data ingest at $0.032/GB and data retrieval and enhanced fan-out retrieval at $0.016/GB, making high fan-out workloads more cost effective. Existing RegisterStreamConsumer API calls continue to register enhanced fan-out consumers up to the 50-consumer limit.

Amazon MQ Adds RabbitMQ 4.2 with AMQP 1.0 Support Now

🚀 Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ 4.2, bringing native AMQP 1.0 support, a Raft-based metadata store (Khepri), local shovels, and message priorities for quorum queues. The release also includes throughput and memory management improvements and a range of bug fixes. Brokers can be created on m7g instance types via the Console, CLI, or SDKs, with automatic patch-version management and configurable resource limits. Note that mirroring of classic queues is no longer supported; quorum queues remain the sole replicated, durable queue type.

ALB Target Optimizer: Per-Target Concurrency Control

🔧 Application Load Balancer now includes Target Optimizer, which enforces a maximum number of concurrent requests per target to align load with processing capacity. You enable it by creating a target group with a target control port and running an AWS-provided agent on each target. The feature can be configured per target group and is available in AWS Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions. Note that enabled target groups consume additional LCUs and may increase costs.

AWS Glue Adds Zero-ETL Support for More SAP Entities

🔄 AWS Glue now provides full snapshot and incremental zero-ETL ingestion for additional SAP entities. The update adds snapshot ingestion for entities without deletion tracking and timestamp-based incremental loads for non-ODP systems, extending existing ODP support. Organizations can ingest SAP data directly into Amazon Redshift or the lakehouse architecture used by Amazon SageMaker, reducing engineering effort and operational complexity. This feature is available in all Regions where AWS Glue zero-ETL is offered.

Google Cloud to Launch New Cloud Region in Türkiye

🚀 Google Cloud announced plans to open a new cloud region in Türkiye in partnership with Turkcell, forming part of a 10-year, $2 billion investment in the country. The region will deliver low-latency, high-performance services and advanced AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity capabilities while providing data residency and strong protection controls. Local enterprises, public sector organizations, and partners will gain enhanced scalability, compliance, and the ability to deploy AI-driven solutions closer to end users.

Amazon CloudFront Adds CBOR Web Tokens and CAT Support

🔐 Amazon CloudFront now supports CWT (CBOR Web Tokens) and CAT (Common Access Tokens), providing a compact, binary alternative to JWTs using CBOR and protected with COSE. Developers can validate, generate, and refresh tokens directly in CloudFront Functions with sub-millisecond execution and seamless integration with the CloudFront Functions KeyValueStore for secure key management. CAT extends CWT with fine-grained access controls such as URL patterns, IP restrictions, and HTTP method limits, enabling edge-enforced authorization without additional charge.

Amazon SageMaker Studio Integrates EMR on EKS with SSO

🔒 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports EMR on EKS as a compute option for interactive Apache Spark sessions, bringing containerized, large-scale distributed compute with automatic scaling and cost optimizations directly into the Studio environment. The feature adds trusted identity propagation through AWS Identity Center, enabling single sign-on and end-to-end data access traceability for interactive analytics. Data practitioners can use corporate credentials to access Glue Data Catalog resources from SageMaker JupyterLab while administrators retain fine-grained access controls and audit trails. This capability is available in all existing SageMaker Unified Studio regions.

Amazon CloudFront Adds TLS 1.3 Support for Origins

🔒 Amazon CloudFront now supports TLS 1.3 for connections to origins, automatically enabled across custom origins, Amazon S3, and Application Load Balancers with no configuration changes required. The upgrade provides stronger encryption and reduced handshake latency, delivering up to 30% faster connection establishment when an origin supports TLS 1.3. CloudFront will negotiate TLS 1.3 where supported while maintaining backward compatibility with older TLS versions. This support is available at no additional charge in all CloudFront edge locations and benefits sensitive workloads such as financial services, healthcare, and e-commerce.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Partners with eero for Remote Sites

🔒 AWS Site-to-Site VPN is partnering with eero to simplify secure connectivity from remote sites to AWS. Using eero Wi‑Fi access points and gateway appliances, customers can automatically establish VPN tunnels to AWS in a few clicks. The integration is intended to accelerate scaling across hundreds of locations and reduce the need for onsite networking expertise. Available in the US geography.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Adds BGP Logging for Tunnels Now

🔍 AWS Site-to-Site VPN now publishes Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) logs from VPN tunnels to Amazon CloudWatch, providing deeper visibility into routing and session behavior. Previously, customers only had access to IKE/IPSec tunnel activity logs; the new BGP logs show session status, transitions, routing updates, and detailed error states. With both tunnel and BGP logs in CloudWatch, teams can correlate events, speed troubleshooting, and identify configuration mismatches between AWS endpoints and customer gateways across commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

Amazon Braket Adds AQT IBEX Q1 Trapped-Ion QPU in Europe

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers access to IBEX Q1, a 12-qubit trapped-ion QPU from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) featuring full all-to-all connectivity that eliminates the need for intermediate SWAP gates. The device is available on-demand and via Hybrid Jobs, and customers can reserve dedicated capacity through Braket Direct with hourly pricing and no upfront commitments. IBEX Q1 runs in the Europe (Stockholm) Region with launch access Tuesdays and Wednesdays 09:00–16:00 UTC. Accredited researchers may apply for AWS Cloud Credits for Research to support experiments.

Aurora DSQL Adds Statement-Level DPU Cost Estimates

🔍 Amazon Aurora DSQL now surfaces statement-level cost estimates directly in query plans, providing developers immediate visibility into resource use per SQL statement. The EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE output is extended to append per-category (compute, read, write, and multi-Region write) and total estimated Distributed Processing Unit (DPU) usage. This enhancement offers fine-grained, real-time cost insight that complements CloudWatch metrics, enabling faster identification of cost drivers and more effective query tuning. The feature is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is supported.