All news in category "Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch"

AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for SQS Event-Source Mappings

🔔 AWS Lambda now offers Provisioned Mode for SQS event-source mappings (ESMs), letting you provision persistent event pollers to handle sudden traffic spikes. Provisioned ESMs scale up to 3x faster (up to 1,000 concurrent executions/min) and support up to 16x higher concurrency (up to 20,000 concurrent executions), reducing latency for bursty workloads. The feature is generally available in all AWS Commercial Regions and is configurable via the Console, API, CLI, SDK, CloudFormation, and SAM; billing is by Event Poller Units (EPU).

Amazon ECS improves service availability for rolling deploys

🔁 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now replaces unhealthy or terminated tasks with healthy tasks from the same service revision during rolling deployments instead of prioritizing the new revision. This prevents service availability drops when new task versions fail health checks or cannot start. Application Auto Scaling scale-outs are applied across both revisions so the running version can handle increased load. These changes respect maximumPercent and minimumHealthyPercent and are enabled by default in all Regions.

Protective ReRoute: Host-based Network Resilience for Cloud

🛡️ Protective ReRoute (PRR) shifts rapid failure recovery from the network core to endpoints, enabling hosts to detect packet loss or high latency and re-steer traffic onto alternate pre-existing paths. Implemented in Linux (4.20+) and supported in Google Cloud via hypervisor and guest modes, PRR alters packet headers (IPv6 flow-label or overlay outer headers) to request multipath forwarding. In production for five years, it prevents up to 84% of slow-convergence outages and typically restores service in a single-digit multiple of RTT.

Using BigQuery ML to Solve Lookalike Audiences at Zeotap

🔍 Zeotap and Google Cloud describe a SQL-first approach to building scalable lookalike audiences entirely within BigQuery. They convert low-cardinality categorical features into one-hot and multi-hot vectors, use Jaccard similarity reframed via dot-product and Manhattan norms, and index vectors with BigQuery’s VECTOR_SEARCH. By combining pre-filtering on discriminative features and batching queries, the workflow reduces compute, latency, and cost while avoiding a separate vector database.

Advancing Text-to-SQL: Gemini's BIRD Benchmark Breakthrough

🚀 Google Cloud reports a new state-of-the-art Single Trained Model Track score on the BIRD benchmark, achieving 76.13 with a fine-tuned Gemini 2.5-pro. The team credits rigorous data filtering, multitask supervised fine-tuning, and test-time self-consistency selection for the gains. These improvements bolster NL2SQL features in AlloyDB AI and BigQuery, and enhance developer tooling such as Gemini Code Assist for reliable SQL generation.

Google Cloud: Cloud-Native HPC Innovations for SC25

🚀 Google Cloud previewed its HPC and AI innovations for SC25, emphasizing a shift to cloud-native HPC that lets researchers and engineers provision purpose-built clusters in minutes. Key highlights include H4D and A4X VMs with low-latency Cloud RDMA, plus the Dynamic Workload Scheduler with Flex Start to enable flexible, cost-effective access to high-demand compute. The Cluster Toolkit and Google Managed Lustre simplify cluster deployment and high-throughput storage, while the latest TPUs and AI tools accelerate scientific workflows. Attendees are invited to booth #3724 for demos, talks, and community events.

Waze modernizes session handling with Memorystore Cluster

🚀 Waze centralized its real-time session state into a new Session Server backed by Memorystore for Redis Cluster, enabling shared, low-latency access across microservices and removing tight coupling to the monolithic RT service. The team executed a dual-write migration from Memcached to ensure data parity and achieve a zero-downtime cutover. The resulting system sustains over 1 million MGET/s with stable sub-millisecond latency and leverages partial updates to reduce network and write costs.

From Detection to Response: Confidence and Visibility

🔦 Network visibility is the critical lens that turns detection into decisive action. ESG research cited in the article shows 98% of organizations say visibility helps them move from detection to response faster and with greater confidence. Detection raises the alarm; packet-level investigation reveals scope, lateral movement, and exfiltration so analysts can validate alerts and act precisely. The piece positions NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Intelligence as a scalable DPI capability that unifies SecOps and NetOps across hybrid and multicloud environments to eliminate blind spots and enable targeted response.

SOC Efficiency: The Most Valuable Cybersecurity Asset

🔍 Efficiency in security is about focus, not speed. ESG research finds 53% of organizations credit NDR with improving SOC analyst efficiency by reducing false positives and eliminating blind spots. Continuous packet capture and full-fidelity network visibility let analysts of all levels investigate with greater confidence and speed. NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Intelligence is offered as a solution to provide that visibility and maximize scarce human resources.

From Military Service to Cybersecurity: Veteran Pathways

🛡️ Fortinet partnered with BCIT, Cyber Catalyst, and Tech Vets Canada to deliver a one-week Industrial Control Systems cybersecurity microcredential intensive for Canadian veterans, providing hands-on labs and practical workshops. Through exercises in network segmentation, access control, and threat detection, participants translated military skills—leadership, discipline, resilience—into cybersecurity capabilities protecting critical infrastructure. The program paired technical training with mentorship, career transition support, and pathways to internships and certification, reflecting Fortinet’s commitment to building a more diverse, skilled cyber workforce.

Arista and Palo Alto Expand Zero-Trust for Data Centers

🔒 Arista Networks and Palo Alto Networks extended their partnership to deliver a framework for zero-trust inside the data center. The integration pairs Arista’s Multi-Domain Segmentation Services (MSS) fabric and full network visibility with Palo Alto’s next-generation firewall (NGFW) to enable an inspect-once, enforce-many model. CloudVision MSS supports dynamic quarantine and can offload trusted high-bandwidth 'elephant flows' after inspection, while the NGFW triggers hardware line-rate isolation when threats are detected. Unified policy orchestration and Arista Validated Designs (AVD) with AVA automation add network-as-code and CI/CD-friendly deployment so NetOps and SecOps can scale independently.

AWS Marketplace Agreement Events Now via EventBridge

🔔 AWS Marketplace now publishes purchase agreement lifecycle events through Amazon EventBridge, replacing prior Amazon SNS notifications for Software as a Service and Professional Services product types. Sellers (Independent Software Vendors and Channel Partners) and buyers receive notifications for creation, termination, amendment, replacement, renewal, cancellation, and expiration. ISVs also get license-specific events to manage customer entitlements. EventBridge routing supports targets such as AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Step Functions, and can remain compatible with existing SNS-based workflows.

AWS IoT adds VPC Endpoints and IPv6 Connectivity Support

🔒 AWS has expanded AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender to support VPC endpoints via AWS PrivateLink and IPv6 for both VPC and public endpoints. Developers can route data plane operations, management APIs, and credential requests entirely within VPCs, keeping traffic off the public internet. Configuration is available through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and CloudFormation, and the features are GA in all Regions that offer these services.

Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for Aurora Global Database

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now support Aurora Global Database, enabling you to create a staging (green) environment that mirrors production (blue) across primary and all secondary regions. Perform a blue/green switchover to switch primary and secondary regions to the green environment with minimal downtime and no application configuration changes. Aurora automatically renames clusters, instances, and endpoints to preserve production connectivity. This capability covers Aurora MySQL‑ and PostgreSQL‑compatible editions in commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and is available via the Console, SDK, and CLI.

Amazon SageMaker Catalog Adds S3 Read/Write Access

📂 Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, enabling data scientists and analysts to discover, process, and share unstructured data alongside structured datasets. Data publishers can grant read-only or read/write permissions when approving subscriptions or sharing S3 data, allowing processed outputs to be written back to the original bucket or folder. This feature is available in all Regions that support SageMaker Unified Studio and can be accessed via the studio UI, the Amazon DataZone API, SDK, or AWS CLI.

Google reverses Android developer verification plan

🔁 Google has softened its planned Developer Verification requirements after widespread backlash, saying it will create a dedicated account type for limited app distribution and an advanced sideloading flow for experienced users. The original rule would have blocked installation of apps from unverified developers on certified devices beginning in 2026. Google says these changes respond to concerns from students, hobbyists, and power users who need accessible or higher-risk pathways to install apps.

Google Sues to Dismantle 'Lighthouse' Smishing Kit

🛡️ Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the Southern District of New York to dismantle Lighthouse, a phishing-as-a-service kit used to power large-scale SMS phishing (smishing) campaigns. The company says the kit — likely run from China and marketed on Telegram — offered more than 600 templates mimicking over 400 organizations and targeted more than one million people across 121 countries. Google is pursuing legal remedies and supporting new legislation while deploying technical protections such as AI-powered scam flagging and expanded account recovery options.

Amazon SQS Adds IPv6 and FIPS 140-3 in GovCloud Regions

🔒 Amazon SQS now supports API requests over IPv6 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, with the new endpoints validated under FIPS 140-3. Customers can choose IPv6 or IPv4 when sending requests over dual‑stack public or VPC endpoints. This update brings parity across Regions: Amazon SQS now supports IPv6 in AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions. Refer to the developer guide for configuration details.

Amazon EventBridge: Enhanced Visual Rule Builder Console

🔧 Amazon EventBridge introduces an enhanced visual rule builder that integrates a comprehensive event catalog with the EventBridge Schema Registry to simplify building event-driven applications. The schema-aware, console-based drag-and-drop canvas lets developers browse and subscribe to events with sample payloads and schemas, and visually construct filter patterns to reduce syntax errors. The feature is available today in all regions where the Schema Registry is launched and is accessible via the EventBridge console at standard usage charges.

Amazon RDS Adds Support for PostgreSQL Major Version 18

🚀 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL major version 18.1, bringing community improvements to managed RDS instances. Key performance updates include skip scan for multicolumn B-tree indexes, parallel GIN builds, and better OR/IN handling, while UUIDv7 adds ordered UUIDs for high-throughput systems. Observability and extension support are expanded, and upgrades can use Blue/Green, in-place, or snapshot restore options.