All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🔔 AWS Marketplace now delivers customer demo and private-offer requests to sellers instantly using an automated qualification workflow. When a customer submits a request they can include use-case details; AWS Marketplace evaluates those details and creates an opportunity that appears in AWS Partner Central with contact and use-case information. Previously, AWS manually qualified requests, causing multi-day delays. Sellers who haven’t enabled the request buttons can activate them via the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide to start receiving leads immediately.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now lets contact center managers define specific capacity limits for different Task and Email types, replacing channel-only concurrency settings. Managers can classify contacts by complexity, priority, or function and assign distinct concurrency and interruption rules, e.g., allowing three low-effort Tasks concurrently but only one high-attention Task. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered, with details in the Administrator Guide.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of an AWS-managed .NET modernization transformation accessible via a single one-line CLI command. The transformation can run interactively or be scripted into pipelines and complements existing AWS Transform for .NET experiences such as the web app, Visual Studio IDE, Kiro Power, and MCP agents. AWS Transform custom supports ready-to-use and customizable transformations to upgrade languages, migrate frameworks, optimize performance, and analyze codebases at scale.

🚀 The AlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM orchestrator is now generally available alongside AlloyDB Omni v18.3.0, bringing production-ready security, resiliency, and low-downtime operations for PostgreSQL workloads on VMs and bare metal. The release supports four deployment modes, including standalone RPM and RPM orchestrator for HA, and targets regulated, edge, and AI-ready environments. The orchestrator simplifies cluster lifecycle, offers read pools, automated backups to GCS/S3, SELinux support, advanced observability, and Low Downtime Maintenance for enterprise-scale operations.

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports AWS Graviton5-powered C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances on Lambda Managed Instances, delivering up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton4. Lambda Managed Instances lets you run Lambda functions on EC2 while retaining Lambda’s operational simplicity, with infrastructure tasks fully managed. You can specify Graviton5 instance types when creating a capacity provider or leave the instance type as default so Lambda can select Graviton5 based on function configuration. Support is available in all Regions where both Lambda Managed Instances and the listed EC2 instances are offered.

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances (LMI), increasing the previous 15-minute limit sixfold. This change enables longer-running workloads such as data processing, media transcoding, financial calculations, AI inference, and batch jobs without re-architecting applications. Configuration is available via the AWS Lambda Console, CLI, API, IaC tooling, or the Agent Toolkit. Synchronous invocations remain limited to 15 minutes; the feature is available in all Regions that support LMI.

🛡️ This post argues that zone resiliency should be decided per component rather than applied as a single setting across a workload. It explains Azure availability zones, contrasts service-managed zone redundancy with user-managed zonal designs, and outlines common component categories and when two or three zones are appropriate. The guidance emphasizes validating service-specific behavior, modeling cost and capacity tradeoffs, and documenting failover, capacity, and operational responsibilities.

🎯 Google announces it was named a Leader in Gartner’s inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Assistants, highlighting Gemini Enterprise’s strengths across vision and execution. The post details Gemini Enterprise’s unified platform, open connectivity, simple economics, built-in governance, and full-stack scale. It also highlights recent product advances — industry solutions, developer tools like Antigravity, and FinOps controls — and customer endorsements from Accenture, Cleary Gottlieb, Deutsche Bank, and Williams & Connolly. The article positions the recognition as validation of Google’s aim to provide governed, connected AI agents for enterprise work.

🔒 This post explains why Database Migration Service (DMS) does not migrate SQL Server instance-level logins and how to migrate them safely. It outlines the security, compliance, and identity-modernization reasons behind that design decision and shows a practical three-step approach using Microsoft's sp_help_revlogin script. The guide covers generating hashed-password CREATE LOGIN statements, applying them to Cloud SQL, and resolving orphaned users, while recommending migration to Customer-Managed Active Directory where possible.

🛠️ AWS announced two new APIs — CheckIngestedDocumentAcl and GetIngestedDocumentAcl — for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base that let customers debug and audit document-level access. The first API verifies whether a specific user can access a given ingested document, while the second returns the full ACL attached to a document for detailed inspection. The Bedrock console also adds a Document Access Control section to check access by document ID and user email or retrieve a document's ACL.

📺 Airtel partnered with Google Cloud to deliver flawless live streaming for IPL 2026 across 74 matches, processing several hundred petabytes of egress and peak traffic in the multi-Tbps range. By leveraging Media CDN and deep edge localization within India, Airtel served 99.9% of tournament traffic locally with a cache hit ratio above 98% and p99 latency under 300 ms. Proactive operational practices, including Pre-tournament readiness reviews and Monitoring as a Service, enabled real-time support and ensured consistent playback during peak concurrency.

🛠️ Google Cloud Spanner now allows transactions to include any number of DML statements provided each individual statement produces fewer than 80,000 mutation mods. This change moves the previous 80,000 cumulative transaction-level cap to a per-statement limit, enabling larger, more natural transactions without code changes. Existing client libraries remain compatible, though longer transactions may increase lock contention and aborts, so developers should monitor CommitStats and optimize large operations.

🔔 Today, Amazon Quick introduces capabilities to improve organization, governance, and answer trust across desktop and mobile. Scheduled tasks and monitoring agents now run continuously in the cloud, delivering results even when devices are offline. A refined activity feed offers top-level filters, improved catch-up views, a thrice-daily briefing, and seven-day search. Administrators gain MDM support, per-user permissions, and Microsoft Purview DLP integration, while collaboration, native desktop apps, inline citations, and expanded agent hours simplify enterprise use.

📱The Amazon Quick activity feed is now available on the Amazon Quick mobile app for iOS and Android, providing a single prioritized view of items that need attention across enterprise communications and tools. Items requiring action surface to the top, and you can take actions directly within the app instead of switching between tools. Quick learns your priorities over time and retains context between desktop and mobile, allowing seamless continuation of chats and tasks. The mobile app is included with existing Amazon Quick access at no additional cost.

🖥️ The Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows, enabling full access to Quick on local computers. The app syncs conversations, context, and agents across desktop and mobile, and integrates with calendar, email, and business apps. Agents can run continuously in the background to progress long-running tasks, and the release includes enterprise-grade stability, governance, and AWS SLA commitments.

🔗 AWS has introduced a Confluence Data Center data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling direct ingestion of self-hosted Confluence blogs and pages. The connector automates crawling, metadata extraction, and incremental sync after you provide instance credentials. Filters let you scope crawls to specific spaces or content types to keep knowledge bases focused and cost-efficient. This simplifies building internal AI assistants grounded in Confluence-hosted documentation.

🛠️ The Workers runtime's module registry in workerd has been rewritten to improve speed, standards compliance, and alignment with Node.js module semantics. Enabling the new_module_registry flag activates features like import.meta.url, import.meta.main, and import.meta.resolve(), Node-style require(esm) behavior, and correct handling of json import attributes. The registry now uses URL-based specifiers, supports separate module files (including Wasm) and shared compilation caches, and enables bundlers like Rollup/Vite to rely more on the runtime for resolution.

🧹 Kaspersky for macOS now includes an App Cleaner that removes applications along with their related files, caches, and helper services. The tool locates leftovers from apps previously deleted and moves removals to the Trash first so they can be restored if needed. App Cleaner identifies files using bundle IDs and common macOS locations and displays what will be deleted and how much space it frees up. The feature is part of Kaspersky Premium and complements other protections like Hard Disk Health Monitor.

🔒 Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Volume Clones now supports copying volumes across AWS accounts with re‑encryption using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys in the target account. This lets organizations segregate production and development accounts while sharing data safely. The feature supports all volume types, including unencrypted and customer‑managed KMS‑encrypted volumes, and is available via the Console, CLI, and SDKs in supported Regions.

🔍 AWS Systems Manager now diagnoses six additional root causes preventing Amazon EC2 instances and hybrid-activated nodes from becoming managed. The expanded checks include IAM permissions, SSM Agent version, instance status checks, operating system configuration, Default Host Management Configuration, and hybrid activation, in addition to prior network connectivity diagnostics. The console reports specific issues with step-by-step guidance and can run Automation runbooks to remediate some problems directly.