All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🔧Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters, provisioning nodes with the software and configurations needed for production-ready AI/ML training environments. The AMI includes required components such as Docker, Enroot, and Pyxis, plus Slurm accounting, SSH key generation, log rotation, and user home setup. To enable it, omit the LifeCycleConfig block when creating clusters or select "None" under Lifecycle scripts in the console; you can still supply an extension script for additional customization or continue using full custom lifecycle scripts if you need complete control. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker HyperPod is offered.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of the new Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances, powered by custom sixth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth‑generation AWS Nitro cards. R8idn offers up to 600 Gbps networking and up to 22,800 GB of NVMe local storage; R8idb delivers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth and up to 1,440K IOPS, representing up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus the prior R6in generation. Both families target memory‑intensive workloads and are available in select US and Europe regions via On‑Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus M6idn, with M8idn offering up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth and M8idb up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth. They target network- and storage-intensive general-purpose workloads and are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain) via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🟢 AWS now supports UPI Scan and Pay for India customers to sign up for AWS and make one-time invoice payments. The Console displays a QR code that customers scan with popular UPI apps (Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm, Amazon Pay), removing the need to manually enter a UPI ID. Customers can also enable UPI AutoPay for recurring monthly charges up to INR 15,000. The feature improves convenience, reduces input errors, and aligns billing with common local payment habits.

🔒 Traditional DLP tools often miss significant risk that originates inside the web browser. The piece explains how users routinely copy, type, and upload sensitive data into web forms, AI prompts, and unsanctioned accounts—activities that endpoint, network, and cloud DLP commonly cannot inspect with the needed context. Browser-native DLP operates within the browsing session to detect clipboard events, form inputs, and uploads, understand which app and account are involved, and apply inline controls to block or warn on risky actions while preserving approved workflows.

🔒 Nutanix and Palo Alto Networks have integrated Prisma AIRS into the Nutanix Enterprise AI platform to embed automated AI model scanning and continuous red teaming directly into the MLOps pipeline. The integrated solution scans models at check-in, analyzes dependencies for known vulnerabilities and license issues, and validates provenance and file formats to block backdoors or unsafe execution paths before deployment. It also provides API-driven red teaming with a context-aware agent and a large, continuously updated attack library so teams can test resilience and prioritize business-relevant risks without complex setup.

💳 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers a preview of AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built with Coinbase and Stripe, the feature manages wallet authentication, x402 protocol negotiation, stablecoin payment execution, and proof delivery without interrupting an agent's reasoning loop. Developers can attach a Coinbase CDP or Stripe Privy wallet, set session-level spending limits enforced at the infrastructure layer, and observe every transaction through AgentCore's existing logs, metrics, and traces. The Coinbase x402 Bazaar MCP server is accessible via AgentCore Gateway, and the preview is available in four AWS Regions.

🔍 AWS has enabled AWS Resource Explorer in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions. The managed search capability lets authorized users locate resources via the Resource Explorer console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or the unified console search bar, and jump directly to a resource’s service console and Region to take action. Administrators can enable the feature from the Resource Explorer console and consult AWS documentation for setup and usage.

📨 Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West), expanding Mail Manager coverage to 30 AWS regions. The managed gateway centralizes inbound and outbound email routing, filtering, and archiving to simplify infrastructure and reduce reliance on multiple third‑party tools. This AWS-native solution aims to improve visibility and operational control while lowering cost and complexity for regulated and government customers.

🚀Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8a and R8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors. These instances deliver up to 70% higher throughput versus comparable x86 sizes for commonly used instance configurations, with each vCPU mapped to a physical core to provide consistent per-core performance. For high I/O workloads they offer up to 75 Gbps network and 60 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth and are built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth-generation Nitro Cards. RDS for SQL Server also supports the optimize CPU feature to reduce vCPU-based Microsoft SQL Server licensing charges; M8a and R8a are available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be purchased On-Demand or via Database Savings Plans.

🔁 Amazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling for COPY queries from Amazon S3, enabling parallel ingestion of Parquet and ORC files without queuing delays. This lets organizations run time-sensitive ETL, real-time analytics, and high-frequency reporting without sacrificing query performance, as Redshift provisions additional compute automatically. The capability applies to both Serverless and provisioned clusters, with zero operational overhead and general availability across AWS commercial and GovCloud regions.

🔒 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports a VPC egress option that enables a domain to establish private, outbound network connections to resources in your VPC—such as ML models, other AWS services, and custom applications—without exposing traffic to the public internet. When enabled, OpenSearch Service adds network interfaces to the subnets you select and routes outbound traffic into your VPC. You can enable or disable VPC egress via the console, AWS CLI, or the CreateDomain and UpdateDomainConfig APIs. This option is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔧 AWS announced that AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports modifying tunnel bandwidth on existing VPN connections, enabling customers to switch between standard (up to 1.25 Gbps) and large (up to 5 Gbps) tunnel sizes without recreating connections. The upgrade preserves tunnel IP addresses, CIDR blocks, pre-shared keys, and all configuration settings, removing the need to update on-premises VPN devices or firewall rules. This capability is available across a broad set of AWS Regions to simplify bandwidth scaling for hybrid and multi-site deployments.

🚀 Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region as of May 6, 2026. They offer up to 2x performance versus P5en for AI training and inference and include eight Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in memory bandwidth. P6-B200 runs on 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), supports up to 3.2 terabits per second of EFAv4 networking, and is delivered in the p6-b200.48xlarge size.

🔌 Amazon announced that Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bring-your-own file system mounts for Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS access points. Developers can attach these file systems into every agent session at a specified path so agents use standard file operations without custom mount code, privileged containers, or pre-run download orchestration. The feature preserves sub-millisecond latency for active data and NFS close-to-open consistency. It is available across the 15 AWS Regions that support AgentCore Runtime and requires an access point ARN plus a configured VPC.

🔒 AWS published a practical compliance guide, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 on AWS, to help organizations design and operate an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) using AWS services. The guide maps ISO 42001 clauses 4–10 and the Annex A controls to AWS services and architectural patterns, and it explains scoping, shared responsibility, and audit readiness. It highlights automation, evidence collection, monitoring, and responsible AI features to reduce effort in preparing for certification.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. The p6-b300.48xlarge ships with 8x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 2.1 TB high-bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps ENA throughput and 4 TB system memory. Compared with P6-B200, P6-B300 delivers 2x networking bandwidth and 1.5x GPU memory and TFLOPS (FP4, without sparsity), making it suited for training and serving large trillion-parameter foundation models and LLMs with improved token throughput and faster distributed training.

⚡ Amazon ElastiCache now supports aggregation queries that let developers filter, group, transform, and summarize data directly in cache with a single query. By running aggregations in-memory, applications can deliver microsecond latencies across terabytes of data while returning results that reflect completed writes. The feature reduces architectural complexity by removing the need for a separate analytics engine and enables use cases such as faceted navigation, rollups, leaderboards, and real-time dashboards. Aggregations are available at no additional cost on node-based clusters running Valkey 9.0 in commercial, GovCloud, and China Regions.

🔎 Amazon ElastiCache now provides real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search directly in the cache, eliminating the need for a separate search service. Applications can query terabytes of frequently changing data with microsecond latency and up to millions of operations per second, and can combine search types in a single query to power complex filters. The capability is available in all commercial Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions for node-based clusters running Valkey 9.0 at no additional cost; create or upgrade clusters via Console, SDK, or CLI.

🔍 Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search that combines vector similarity and full-text search in a single query, removing the need for a separate search service. New writes are searchable immediately, enabling microsecond latencies and up to 99% recall across billions of embeddings from providers such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The feature is available at no additional cost for node-based clusters running Valkey 9.0+ in all commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions, and Valkey is recommended as a permissive, vendor-neutral alternative to Redis.