All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🛡️ CodeMender is a managed code security agent now available in preview, offering automated scanning and remediation using Google DeepMind–tuned models via the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform or as part of AI Threat Defense. It prioritizes fixes by exploitability, runs proof-of-concept exploits in customer-managed sandboxes, and generates validated patches that integrate into developer workflows. The agent supports multiple languages, integrates with CI/CD and IDEs, and enforces enterprise-grade governance and data controls.

📈 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and up to 200,000 recording and alerting rules per workspace, with customers able to create many workspaces per account. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that automatically scales ingestion and storage for high-cardinality workloads across containerized, serverless, and hybrid environments. It integrates with AWS security services to provide secure access to monitoring data and lets customers request higher workspace limits via AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas.

🔐 In Google Cloud, IAM enforces the Principle of Least Privilege by combining predefined and custom roles with Allow and Deny policies across resource hierarchies. When resource-level bindings are not possible, IAM conditions let you scope broad roles to specific APIs, services, MCP servers, tools, or time windows. Use conditions alongside Deny policies to surgically remove excessive permissions and strengthen defense-in-depth.

📝 AWS Marketplace now lets India-based sellers upload and manage their seller signatures directly through AWS Partner Central, replacing the prior manual email submission process. This centralized flow consolidates GSTIN registration and signature management for sellers transacting in India. Uploaded signatures are securely stored and used for buyer tax invoices, with automated real-time validation and an at-a-glance tax summary showing verification status. Sellers receive email notifications on verification outcomes and can resubmit if rejected using provided rejection reasons.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 across Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 integrates AI into the database engine, enabling T-SQL to call external REST endpoints and work with AWS services like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda. Standard Edition capacity and features have been expanded, and a new free Developer edition is available for testing.

🔍 The Amazon GuardDuty investigation agent, now in public preview, delivers on-demand, AI-assisted assessments of GuardDuty findings across AWS accounts and Regions. It returns structured outputs including risk level, confidence scores, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, resource context, and prioritized remediation actions. Accessible via AWS Console, CLI, APIs, SDKs, and the AWS MCP server, it supports natural-language triggers and integrates into existing security pipelines to reduce investigation time from hours to minutes.

🔒 Cloudflare Internal DNS is now generally available, providing authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks on the same control plane used for public DNS, Zero Trust, and networking. It consolidates public and private DNS management, simplifies split-horizon setups, and extends Zero Trust enforcement to DNS. Enterprise customers get this capability included with Cloudflare Gateway, with Terraform support and integration across Cloudflare connectivity methods.

🛠️ AWS Partner Central agents now support guidance across all AWS Partner funding programs, providing fast, documentation-backed answers on eligibility and application processes. The agents automate the funding lifecycle, validate eligibility against partner and opportunity data, review uploaded documents for compliance, and draft requests with auto-filled fields. Available in all commercial AWS Regions, partners can access recommendations by opening an opportunity in AWS Partner Central or consulting the agents guide.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio) Regions, extending access to fully managed bioinformatics pipelines for research, drug discovery, and agricultural science with regional compliance. The HIPAA-eligible service supports domain-specific languages like Nextflow, WDL, and CWL, and includes Git integrations and Amazon ECR container support to simplify migration and maintain data provenance.

📢 AWS now includes standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock in AWS Data Exports (Cost and Usage Report), enabling FinOps and cloud teams to consistently attribute Bedrock spend. The update exposes attributes like model provider, model name, pricing unit, inference type, and feature, plus a unified product family name, available by default at no extra cost. CUR 2.0 surfaces these fields in the product map and pricing unit column for easy export to S3 and analysis with Athena or data warehouses.

🔍 BigQuery announced GA for Autonomous Embedding Generation and AI.SEARCH(), plus a public preview of Hybrid Search to simplify retrieval and analytics over unstructured data. It automates embedding creation (including images), offers large single-query performance gains, and combines semantic and lexical techniques for more precise results. These features integrate into a broader end-to-end document analytics workflow in BigQuery.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm, Zurich). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. R8i delivers higher performance at large sizes including a new 96xlarge and SAP certification; R8i-flex offers common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that underutilize compute.

🔍 Today AWS announced enhanced CloudTrail filtering for VPC endpoint network activity events, allowing selectors that filter logs by the IAM user identity making API calls. This update lets customers log only relevant events — for example, access denied actions from identities outside a trusted list — reducing logging noise and cost. The feature supports console, CLI, and SDK access and is available in all Regions that support CloudTrail network activity events.

🔒 Amazon Web Services completed an onboarding audit reissued on May 31, 2026, covering ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, 22301:2019 and CSA STAR CCM v4.0. EY Certify Point conducted the audit with no findings to add two additional AWS services into the certification scope. These certifications reflect AWS’s ongoing commitment to robust security controls and customer data protection across services. Customers can view full lists and access certificates via the AWS Management Console through AWS Artifact.

🔊 Amazon Connect now offers more natural, human-sounding agentic voice experiences with expanded support across 50+ languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai. The update introduces over 100 new voice options and conversational improvements for smoother, more responsive AI interactions. Enhanced features include seamless response pacing, improved turn-taking to avoid interruptions, and speech controls to adjust speed, volume, and emotion to match brand tone.

🛠️ Panasonic Automotive’s vSkipGen virtualization platform is validated on Google Cloud’s Axion-based C4A-metal, enabling cloud-native development and validation of Cockpit Domain Controller (CDC) software. The solution pairs vSkipGen’s Unified HMI remote GPU offload with support for Android Automotive OS and Android SDV to provide high-fidelity graphics, VirtIO device virtualization, and integration with automotive simulators. C4A-metal delivers high-performance Arm-based bare metal instances optimized for digital twins, accelerated testing, and scalable CI/CD pipelines.

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). Powered by AWS Graviton4, these storage-optimized instances provide up to 60% better compute performance versus Graviton2 storage instances and use third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for improved storage throughput and latency. I8ge offers up to 120 TB local NVMe storage, up to 180 Gbps network bandwidth, and multiple sizes including metal options to support demanding, low-latency workloads.

🚀 Cloud Run now supports one-command multi-region deployments with automatic failover when paired with a global or internal application load balancer. Readiness probes give instance-level health checks and Service health aggregates those checks per region, exposed via serverless NEGs to enable rapid failover. These features target both public internet and private VPC applications and are intended to reduce downtime and simplify HA architectures.

📊 Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now show real-time and historical metrics for agent queues, enabling supervisors to monitor performance for agents routed directly through those queues. These metrics help identify issues such as spikes in queued contacts after scheduled callbacks so supervisors can reassign work and reduce wait times. Agent queue metrics are available across all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

📂 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options for multi-session fleets. Users streaming on shared fleet instances can connect their cloud accounts to access, save, and sync files directly within sessions, alongside the existing S3-backed home folder. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Applications is offered and incurs no extra charge beyond standard streaming usage pricing.