All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🧭 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces a getting-started section with short tutorials that guide users through core workflows—running a first SQL query, analyzing notebook data, building a Visual ETL pipeline, and training an ML model—each using pre-loaded sample data and completable in under 10 minutes. The development environment now auto-matches your OS light/dark mode on first sign-in. A new in-product “What’s New” area surfaces release notes and recent feature announcements to help users discover capabilities as they launch.

🚀 Cloud Storage Rapid introduces high-performance object storage for AI and analytics with Rapid Bucket (zonal, GA) and Rapid Cache (accelerated reads for existing buckets). It combines sub-millisecond latency, multi-TB/s throughput, and new semantics like native appends and vectored reads to reduce I/O bottlenecks that stall GPUs/TPUs. Rapid Cache now supports ingest-on-write to eliminate initial cache-miss penalties and improve checkpoint restores, while multi-region buckets preserve a single namespace and avoid manual data movement.

🔷 Google presents a cluster-level reliability framework for TPU superpods that treats thousands of chips as collective units rather than independent instances. The framework replaces instance-level MTBF thinking with a probabilistic, topology-aware model (binomial distribution) to guarantee contiguous healthy cubes for massive training runs. Using Ironwood, Google shows a 95% confidence block of 130/144 cubes—an 8,320-chip domain—while allowing remaining capacity for heterogeneous workloads. Combined with framework resilience and multi-tier checkpointing, this model is engineered to maximize scheduling goodput for hero jobs.

🔐 At Google Cloud Next, Google outlined a resilient, scalable, and secure foundation to accelerate public sector adoption of the agentic era, highlighting infrastructure, data, and security innovations. Key infrastructure announcements include the AI Hypercomputer with eighth-generation TPUs (TPU 8t for training, TPU 8i for inference) and Virgo Networking, plus Google Distributed Cloud bringing Gemini to where data resides. On data, an AI-native architecture features Knowledge Catalog (FedRAMP High, DoD IL4 & IL5) and a cross-cloud Lakehouse to ground agents in trusted context. Security advances combine Google Threat Intelligence with Wiz, authorize Cloud Armor and Model Armor, and add defensive agents to protect models and sensitive data.

🚀 AlloyDB now offers general availability of PostgreSQL 18 and introduces Extended Support for older major versions, giving customers flexibility to upgrade on their own schedule. Extended Support enrolls eligible clusters automatically for three years and provides critical security patches, proactive bug fixes, SLA coverage, and the ability to provision new clusters on supported legacy releases. AlloyDB also supports in-place major version upgrades, incorporates PG18 performance features, and leverages a separated compute/storage architecture to improve price-performance and scalability.

📌 At Cosmos Conf 2026 Microsoft outlined how AI is transforming application and database design, arguing data platforms must become systems of reasoning that handle prompts, memory, and evolving context. Leaders from OpenAI, Vercel, and Walmart stressed the need for serverless instant scalability, integrated caching, low-latency global distribution, and developer cost visibility. Demos and customer stories highlighted patterns like vector search, change feed, and role-based governance to deliver real-world, low-latency AI experiences.

🌐 Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports registration and management of 34 new top-level domains, including .app, .dev, .health, and .realty. The addition broadens industry- and purpose-focused naming options for businesses, developers, and creative professionals. Users can register domains via the Route 53 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs with integrated DNS management and automatic renewal. Developers can also manage registrations programmatically using the AWS Agent Toolkit.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, enabling customers to access Anthropic’s native Claude experience directly through their AWS accounts. The service is operated by Anthropic and processes customer data outside the AWS security boundary, while integrating with existing IAM, consolidated billing, and CloudTrail for visibility. It includes APIs, console access, early beta features, and capabilities such as Claude Managed Agents, web search, code execution, files API, and prompt tools.

📦 AWS Transform now automates replatforming to containers during migrations, extending its agentic AI to generate Dockerfiles, build images, and publish to Amazon ECR. It supports repositories from GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, or .zip sources and builds deployment artifacts for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. Integrated security scanning and Terraform and Helm outputs simplify operations. Available in all Regions where AWS Transform is offered.

🔒 AWS Client VPN now provides a Linux desktop client compatible with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, expanding support beyond 22.04 and 24.04. The AWS-supplied client is free and available in all regions where the service is generally available. As a managed VPN service, AWS Client VPN securely connects remote employees to AWS and on-premises networks. Desktop support also includes MacOS (Sonoma 14.0, Sequoia 15.0, Tahoe 26.0) and Windows 11, with ARM64 builds available.

📣 Amazon Connect now supports Default Guides for After Contact Work (ACW), automatically launching a Step-by-Step Guide when an agent enters ACW. This eliminates manual navigation to wrap-up tools and helps standardize post-contact workflows. The feature reduces handle time, lowers errors, and improves agent consistency and productivity. Step-by-Step Guides are available in multiple AWS regions.

🚀 The Gemini CLI CI/CD extension lets developers deploy functional apps directly from a terminal, closing the gap between local prototyping and production pipelines. It performs a pre-deployment secret scan, analyzes project files, and can containerize using buildpacks before deploying to Cloud Run or Cloud Storage. For production workflows it can design CI/CD pipelines, provision resources, and generate Cloud Build YAML and triggers.

🌐 Amazon Web Services now lets customers add or remove AWS Regions for Route 53 Global Resolver, enabling flexible control over where anycast DNS queries are resolved. This update lets organizations expand Global Resolver coverage or adjust regional deployments to meet compliance and latency objectives without recreating configurations. The feature supports anycast resolution for public domains and private Route 53 hosted zones, includes DNS query filtering and centralized logging, and is available at no additional cost in supported Regions.

📢 AWS Service Catalog is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary). The service enables administrators to define and manage approved Infrastructure as Code products using AWS CloudFormation or third‑party tools like Terraform, and to share portfolios across accounts via AWS Organizations. Organizations can apply launch and template constraints, manage product versions, and control access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to provide governed self‑service provisioning at scale for engineers, DBAs, and other end users.

🚀 Google Cloud has reworked GKE node provisioning to deliver up to 4× faster node startup for qualifying nodes, reducing cold-start latency out of the box. This architectural upgrade combines intelligent compute buffers, fast-starting virtual machines, and a redesigned control plane so clusters scale more quickly without any customer configuration. The improvement is live for GKE Autopilot on select NVIDIA and general-purpose instance types, lowering the need to over-provision and speeding AI inference.

🔒 Amazon Quick now supports cross-account access to Amazon Athena data sources, enabling queries against Athena datasets that reside in different AWS accounts from your Quick deployment. Administrators create an Athena data source by specifying a RunAsRole in the Quick account and a ConsumerAccountRoleArn in the target account; Quick chains roles to assume the RunAsRole and then the consumer role to execute queries, with Athena query costs billed to the account where the data lives. The feature supports multiple roles per consumer account for fine-grained team segregation and is available in all supported Amazon Quick Sight regions.

🔍 Traditional SIEM logic — fixed rules that match event A followed by event B — is increasingly insufficient against modern, sophisticated threats that use legitimate tools and supply-chain vectors. Kaspersky describes a shift to continuously updated correlation content informed by its MDR service and threat research. In 2025 the team delivered dozens of updates and hundreds of new or refined rules, and now maintains over 850 rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Integration with Kaspersky EDR and expanded telemetry helps detect multi-stage attack chains and reduce false positives.

📡 Fortinet today announced the FortiExtender WAN 50G (FEW-50G), a purpose-built 5G gateway that extends WAN connectivity to the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, targeting high-throughput distributed edge and AI workloads. It delivers dual 5GE interfaces and eight internal omnidirectional antennas to provide low-latency, high-bandwidth wireless links that rival fiber in flexibility and deployment speed. Integrated with FortiOS, FortiAIOps, and cloud management, the FEW-50G supports OOB access, VRRP failover, ACLs during outages, and zero-touch provisioning for large-scale deployments.

🔔 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9, aligning with the latest community releases. AWS recommends upgrading to address known security vulnerabilities and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. You can use automatic minor version upgrades or Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments to apply updates during scheduled maintenance for safer rollouts.

🔧 IAM Policy Autopilot now analyzes Java applications and cross-references Terraform definitions to produce more precise IAM policies. The open-source tool, introduced at re:Invent 2025, already supported Python, TypeScript, and Go, and is available at no additional cost for local use. By resolving resource ARNs from Terraform, generated policies can avoid broad wildcard permissions and better enforce least-privilege. This update speeds policy creation and reduces time spent troubleshooting access issues.