All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🛒 AWS Marketplace announces the Agreements API, enabling programmatic procurement and agreement management for Marketplace products. With this API you can generate estimates, accept offers, track charges and entitlements, update purchase orders, and manage agreements within your existing tools and workflows. Combined with the Discovery API, it supports an end-to-end procurement journey from product discovery to purchase and allows partners to build custom storefronts. The Agreements API is available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region; get started by configuring AWS Identity and Access Management permissions and calling the API via the AWS SDK.

🧭 Amazon Neptune now offers a 1-click connect to CloudShell, letting administrators, developers, and analysts quickly open interactive sessions against Neptune Database and Neptune Analytics without manual network configuration. The feature supports VPC-only resources and common network setups, reducing setup time and simplifying testing, development, and troubleshooting workflows. 1-click connect is available at no additional charge in all regions where Neptune is offered.

🧠 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports metadata on long-term memory (LTM) records, enabling agents to tag, filter, and retrieve memories using structured attributes alongside semantic search. You can define up to ten indexed keys per memory resource with STRING, NUMBER, and STRING_LIST types and apply operator filters to refine retrieval results. Metadata can be attached at ingestion or inferred automatically by the LLM using extraction instructions defined on the memory resource. This capability is available today in all AWS Regions where AgentCore Memory is supported.

🔐 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports configuring TLS listeners for environments that use a Network Load Balancer. You can attach an SSL/TLS certificate and select a security policy so the load balancer terminates encrypted connections and forwards decrypted traffic to instances. TLS listener settings are configurable via the Elastic Beanstalk console or CLI, and the feature is available in all regions that support Beanstalk and NLBs.

🔒 Google has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies. The company highlights a unified ecosystem combining Mandiant, VirusTotal, Google infrastructure visibility and Gemini-powered agentic intelligence to detect and preempt threats. Google reports high signal accuracy, turnkey integrations with Security Operations, and combined human expertise to reduce false positives and accelerate response.

🧠 Doist built Ramble to capture stream-of-consciousness speech and convert it into structured tasks using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The feature streams raw PCM audio directly to the model for simultaneous language detection, speech recognition, and semantic parsing, enabling proactive tool calls (addTask, editTask, deleteTask) and robust session resumption across devices. A layered, provider-agnostic streaming architecture supports future voice features and easy provider substitution. Outcome: fast, multilingual, real-time task capture that tolerates messy speech and offline interruptions.

🔐 Google Cloud announced IAM enhancements at Next '26 to secure agentic AI with Agent Identity and an Agent Gateway. Agent Identity, built on the open SPIFFE standard, provides cryptographically verifiable, automatically provisioned identities and new OAuth/certificate tooling. The Agent Gateway, Identity‑Aware Proxy, and Context‑Aware Access extend Zero Trust to agent traffic, while policy updates, guardrails, and Model Armor add runtime defenses.

🔒 Microsoft was named an Overall Leader and Market Leader in KuppingerCole Analysts’ 2026 Emerging AI Security Operations Center (SOC) report. The research highlights a shift from static playbooks to intelligence‑driven automation that augments analyst decision‑making and scales operations. Microsoft cites capabilities such as Microsoft Sentinel enhancements, automatic attack disruption, a phishing triage agent, AI‑powered incident prioritization, and integration with Microsoft Security Copilot to accelerate response and reduce analyst burden.

⚡ Google reports a 6x speedup migrating production models from TensorFlow to JAX using a specialized multi-agent AI system. The architecture pairs deterministic static analysis with three coordinated agents—Planner, Orchestrator, and Coder—plus hierarchical Playbooks to manage large, multi-file repositories. The pipeline enforces mathematical equivalence via algorithmic checks and applies blind LLM audits, reducing months of manual migration work to weeks of AI-assisted code generation followed by expert review.

📸 Breuninger worked with Google Cloud to build a selfie-based virtual try-on that lets shoppers see high-end fashion on their own bodies. They moved from catalog enrichment and selectable body types to a user-first 'Be your own model' feature, supported by preprocessing tools and a Flutter-based platform for rapid scaling. A six-week A/B test over Black Week and the holidays showed higher conversion and stronger contribution margins for VTO users, prompting plans for broader rollout and sizing support.

🔧 AWS Elemental MediaTailor now natively supports ad trickplay personalization and compact DASH manifests through dynamic transcoding. This enables HLS and DASH ads to include trickplay variants and associated image streams that align with origin content specifications, removing the need for custom transcode profiles. Compact DASH manifest support elevates SegmentTemplate to the AdaptationSet level for smaller manifests and more efficient delivery. The features are available in all MediaTailor regions at no additional cost.

🔷 Microsoft is expanding Azure capacity across Europe to meet surging cloud and AI demand. Azure regions and sovereign offerings enable organizations to run sensitive workloads with control over data residency, compliance, and performance. The investments cover new regions and upgrades across Northern, Southern, and Central Europe to support multi-region architectures, digital transformation, and sector-specific AI initiatives.

🔒 AWS has announced general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed endpoint that gives AI coding agents secure, auditable access to AWS services using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS and enforces IAM-based guardrails while emitting CloudWatch metrics and CloudTrail logs so teams keep visibility and control. It supports calling any AWS API through a single tool, sandboxed Python execution for multi-step tasks without filesystem or shell access, and a new agent skills format for on-demand, curated procedures. The service is available at no additional charge; customers pay only for the AWS resources agents consume.

🚀 AWS announced the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite of tools and guidance to help AI coding agents build on AWS with fewer errors, lower token costs, and enterprise-grade security controls. The toolkit includes validated agent skills, a fully managed MCP Server, and easy-to-install agent plugins. At launch AWS is shipping more than 40 skills across infrastructure-as-code, storage, analytics, serverless, containers, and AI, plus three plugin bundles for Core applications, Data Analytics, and Agent development. The Agent Toolkit is available at no additional charge; customers pay only for AWS resources consumed.

🚀 AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service provides a fully managed, branded web portal that lets workforces browse, upload, and download data stored in Amazon S3 through a browser. Administrators get a secure, simple interface for end-user file access without managing servers. This expands regional options for organizations operating in New Zealand.

🔐 Google has expanded Binary Transparency for Android to publish a cryptographic, append-only ledger that records production Google app binaries and Mainline modules. Beginning May 1, 2026, supported production apps will have public ledger entries to attest authenticity. Google is also providing verification tooling so users and researchers can confirm software integrity and detect unauthorized or "one-off" builds.

🔒 AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) now offers expanded STIG-aligned security settings focused on high-impact directory controls. These settings are available today through a self-service interface, both programmatically and via the AWS Management Console, enabling administrators to declare desired configurations and have AWS implement and persist them. When new domain controllers are added or directories are scaled or deployed in additional regions, AWS automatically applies the declared settings to new instances to maintain consistency.

🔒 CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies and ranked furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision. The company emphasizes its AI-native Falcon platform and Threat AI agents — including Malware Analysis and Hunt agents — to deliver tailored, actionable intelligence at decision points. It highlights telemetry from trillions of daily events and multiple integration paths to operationalize intelligence.

🚀 Amazon ElastiCache now offers Valkey 9.0, adding built-in full-text and hybrid search, semantic retrieval, and expanded vector similarity to node-based and serverless caches. The update delivers up to 40% higher throughput for pipelined workloads, microsecond latency for real-time queries, and throughput that can reach millions of requests per second. It also introduces hash field expiration for per-field TTLs and multi-database support for lightweight namespaces.

🔒 AWS Elemental MediaTailor now automatically authenticates server-to-server connections with Google Ad Manager (GAM), Google Campaign Manager (GCM), and Display & Video 360 (DV360), streamlining SSAI integration for customers. The service auto-detects requests to Google's ad servers and establishes the required secure, authenticated connection — no support case or allow-listing needed. GAM ad requests are secured to support access to Authorized Buyers, and GCM/DV360 impression tracking is routed through Google's authenticated endpoints to improve reporting and reduce rejected impressions. The feature is available in all Regions where MediaTailor runs and incurs no additional charge.