All news in category "Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch"

AWS Outposts Adds Dell and HPE External Block Volumes

🔒 Customers can now attach boot and data volumes backed by Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 arrays to Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts, with support for authenticated and encrypted volumes. This extends external block volume support alongside NetApp and Pure Storage, enabling use of on‑premises enterprise arrays for OS boot volumes and high‑performance data volumes. AWS provides automation scripts via AWS Samples and access through the Console or CLI; third‑party integration is available on Outposts 2U servers and racks at no additional charge.

AWS Firewall Manager Now Available in Taipei Region

🔒 AWS announces that AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. The service enables cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers to centrally create, deploy, and maintain defense-in-depth security policies across accounts, including AWS WAF protections and managed rule sets. By centralizing policy management, teams can reduce manual configuration, ensure consistent enforcement, and lower operational overhead. Customers should consult the documentation and region table for full feature and pricing details.

AWS Transfer Family Adds Four New IAM Condition Keys

🔒 AWS has added four service-specific IAM condition keys for AWS Transfer Family, enabling administrators to write more granular policies and SCPs. These keys let you constrain server protocols, endpoint types, and storage domains at request time. For example, use transfer:RequestServerEndpointType to block public servers or transfer:RequestServerProtocols to allow only SFTP. The keys are available in all Regions where the service is offered.

AWS Step Functions Gains Integration with Service Quotas

📣 AWS announces general availability of AWS Service Quotas integration with AWS Step Functions, allowing customers to view account-level quota values in the Service Quotas console and monitor utilization with Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Users can request quota increases directly from the console, and eligible changes are applied automatically to reduce manual intervention. The feature is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Step Functions is provided and can be accessed via the console or CLI.

AWS Storage Gateway Adds VPC Endpoint Policy Support

🔒 AWS Storage Gateway now supports VPC endpoint policies, allowing administrators to attach fine‑grained endpoint policies to VPC endpoints that control access to Storage Gateway direct APIs. Administrators can scope access by principal, action, and resource to reduce attack surface and enforce data protection controls. The capability is available in all Regions where Storage Gateway operates; review endpoint policies to align with your security and compliance requirements.

Amazon EVS Now Available in Singapore and London Regions

🚀Today AWS announced that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is available in all availability zones in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions. Amazon EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation directly within your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances powered by AWS Nitro. You can deploy a complete VCF environment in hours using the guided configuration workflow or the AWS CLI with automated deployment, enabling faster migrations, lower latency for end users, and improved compliance and resiliency.

Databricks Launches AI-Driven Cybersecurity Lakehouse

🔒 Databricks has introduced Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, an AI-driven platform that unifies fragmented security telemetry on its Lakehouse architecture to provide real-time, context-rich threat detection. The offering includes Agent Bricks to build governed AI agents, conversational dashboards, and natural-language queries for nontechnical stakeholders. Early adopters such as Arctic Wolf, Palo Alto Networks, and SAP report sharper detection, lower costs, and faster operations, while Databricks expands integrations across a broad partner ecosystem to challenge established SIEM and analytics vendors.

Amazon Connect adds configurable service level metrics

📈 Supervisors and managers can now customize Amazon Connect service level calculations directly from the analytics dashboards. The metric configuration lets teams define time thresholds for when a contact is considered to meet service levels and select which contact outcomes to include. Options include counting callbacks, excluding contacts transferred out while waiting, and omitting short abandons using a configurable threshold. The capability is available in all AWS regions, enabling a view of service level performance that better aligns with business operations.

Microsoft Sentinel: Agentic Platform for Defenders Now

🛡️ Microsoft announced expanded agentic security capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel, including the general availability of the Sentinel data lake and public preview of Sentinel Graph and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to enable AI agents to reason over unified security data. Sentinel ingests structured and semi-structured signals, builds vectorized, graph-based context, and integrates with Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview. Security Copilot now offers a no-code agent builder and developer workflows via VS Code/GitHub Copilot, while enhanced governance controls (Entra Agent ID, PII guardrails, prompt shields) aim to secure agent lifecycles.

Microsoft Expands Sentinel into Agentic Security Platform

🔒 Microsoft announced the general availability of the Sentinel data lake and public previews of Sentinel Graph and the Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The release broadens Sentinel from a traditional SIEM into a unified, agentic security platform designed to ingest and correlate structured and semi-structured signals at scale. It is intended to give AI agents such as Security Copilot and developer tools in VS Code with GitHub Copilot richer contextual access for detection, retroactive hunting, and automated response while integrating with Defender and Purview.

Evolving Enterprise Defense for the Modern AI Supply Chain

🛡️ Wing Security outlines how enterprises must evolve defenses to protect the modern AI application supply chain. The article explains that rapid AI sprawl, interapplication integrations, and new data exposure vectors create blind spots traditional controls were not built to handle. By extending its SaaS Security Posture Management foundation, Wing Security offers continuous discovery, real-time monitoring, vendor analytics, and adaptive governance to reduce supply chain, data leakage, and compliance risk.

AWS Transfer Family Adds VPC Endpoint Policy Support

🔒 AWS now supports attaching VPC endpoint policies to Transfer Family interface VPC endpoints, enabling administrators to apply granular access controls to Transfer Family APIs. Administrators can restrict specific API actions, designate which principals may call them, and limit target resources. The capability integrates with existing IAM policies and organizational service control policies, and Transfer Family also supports FIPS 140-3 enabled VPC endpoints across all AWS Regions.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Adds IPv6 Support

🌐 Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports IPv6, enabling new file systems to be accessed over IPv4, IPv6, or dual‑stack clients without requiring address translation. The capability is available immediately in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where FSx is offered; existing file systems will receive IPv6 during an upcoming maintenance window. This change helps customers address IPv4 exhaustion and comply with mandates such as the US OMB M‑21‑07. See the FSx user guide for configuration and migration details.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Adds IPv6 Support in AWS Regions

🌐 Amazon Web Services now supports IPv6 access for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems. Customers can connect using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients without requiring translation infrastructure, simplifying IPv6 adoption and compliance with mandates such as OMB M-21-07. IPv6 is available for new file systems across all AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions; existing systems will receive support during an upcoming maintenance window.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP 2nd-Gen Regional Expansion

📣 Amazon has expanded second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to four additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Canada (Central). Second-generation file systems increase performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation deployments by supporting up to 12 HA pairs per file system, delivering up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. Customers can provision Multi‑AZ file systems with a single HA pair or Single‑AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs to better match workload requirements.

AWS ParallelCluster 3.14 Adds P6e-GB200 and P6-B200

🚀 AWS has released ParallelCluster 3.14, adding support for the new P6e-GB200 and P6-B200 instance types and introducing prioritized allocation strategies to improve instance placement. The update also adds NICE DCV support for Amazon Linux 2023 and brings kernel 6.12. Administrators gain chef-client log visibility in the instance system console. The release enhances ParallelCluster’s ability to provision and manage HPC clusters on AWS.

AWS B2B Data Interchange Adds Transformation Status

🔍 AWS has added transformation status reporting to the AWS B2B Data Interchange console, enabling operators to view processing outcomes and validation results for EDI transformations in a single interface. The console presents timelines and statuses for up to 10,000 recent input–output pairs per partnership and highlights errors and validation details to speed troubleshooting. This capability covers ANSI X12 and other EDI flows to and from JSON and XML and is available in all Regions where the service runs; AWS provides a user guide and a self-paced workshop to help teams get started.

Amazon FSx for Lustre Now in US West (Phoenix) Local Zone

⚡ Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS US West (Phoenix) Local Zone, bringing managed high-performance shared storage closer to compute and end users. The service supports demanding workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation. This local-zone availability reduces latency, improves throughput for data-intensive workloads, and can lower cross-zone or cross-region transfer overhead for applications that require fast, parallel I/O.

Amazon ECS Managed Instances: Fully Managed EC2 Compute

⚙️ AWS today introduced Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a fully managed compute option that provisions, configures, and operates Amazon EC2 instances on behalf of customers to reduce infrastructure overhead. You specify task requirements (vCPUs, memory, CPU architecture) or desired instance types and ECS automatically selects and manages optimal instances. The service dynamically scales capacity, optimizes task placement, and applies security patching on a 14-day cadence with support for scheduled EC2 event windows.

AWS IAM Identity Center Now in Bangkok and Querétaro

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center is now deployable in 36 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok) and Mexico Central (Querétaro). The service provides centralized workforce access, single sign-on, and integration with existing identity sources to streamline account and application access across AWS. It powers personalized experiences in AWS applications such as Amazon Q and supports user-aware access auditing for services like Amazon Redshift. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these Regions.