All news in category "Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch"

Palo Alto Networks Named Leader in HMF Magic Quadrant

🔐 Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall, recognized for both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. The announcement highlights the Strata Network Security Platform, which unifies hardware, virtual, container, cloud-native and FWaaS deployments under a single, cloud-based management plane. Powered by Precision AI®, the platform delivers consistent policy, automation and real-time threat prevention across hybrid environments.

Custom Metrics in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Custom Metrics, enabling developers and operators to define and visualize application-specific telemetry alongside standard health metrics such as fault rates, errors, and latency. You can ingest metrics directly with OpenTelemetry Metrics or derive them from spans using the OpenTelemetry Traces SDK and Metrics Filters. The Application Signals console offers correlated views in the Related Metrics tab, interactive visualization, and quick navigation to correlated spans, top contributors, and related logs. Custom Metrics support is available in all regions where Application Signals is offered; see documentation and CloudWatch pricing for details.

Google for Startups: 2025 Brazilian AI First Cohort

🚀 Google has announced the 2025 Brazilian cohort for the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First, selecting 11 companies applying AI across finance, health, marketing, and agriculture. The program begins on September 2 and will provide personalized technical and strategic support, including mentorship and access to Google's AI experts. The cohort spans solutions for automated billing and claims, digital pathology, agroforestry intelligence, creator marketing, legal automation, treasury automation, and AI-driven children's storytelling.

AWS SageMaker Adds P5.4xlarge with NVIDIA H100 GPU

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Training and Processing Jobs now supports the new EC2 P5 instance size with a single NVIDIA H100 GPU, offering the P5.4xlarge configuration for cost‑effective ML and HPC workloads. The instance enables fine-grained scaling so customers can begin with smaller configurations and expand incrementally, improving cost management and infrastructure flexibility. P5.4xlarge is available via SageMaker Flexible Training Plans and in select regions through On‑Demand and Spot.

Check Point Named Leader in 2025 Hybrid Mesh Firewall

🚀 Check Point has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall, recognized for ability to execute and completeness of vision. The firm emphasizes its AI-powered network security to deliver consistent, high-performance threat prevention across on-premises, cloud and SASE environments. The recognition highlights unified management and proactive defenses designed for distributed enterprises facing AI-driven attacks.

AWS App Runner Adds IPv6 for Inbound and Outbound Traffic

🌐 AWS App Runner now supports IPv6 for both inbound and outbound traffic on public and private service endpoints. This removes the need for IPv4/IPv6 address translation and helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements. You enable the capability by selecting the dual-stack option in the networking configuration for new or existing services. IPv6 support is available in all Regions where App Runner is offered.

Microsoft Tops Modern Endpoint Security Market Share

🔒 Microsoft Defender has been ranked number one in modern endpoint security market share for the third consecutive year, according to IDC’s 2024 report. Market share rose from 25.8% in 2023 to 28.6% in 2024, reflecting a 28.2% growth rate. Defender emphasizes cross-platform protection—Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and IoT—leveraging AI-powered detection and built-in exposure management to enable rapid SOC response and attack disruption.

Cloudflare AI Gateway updates: unified billing, routing

🤖 Cloudflare’s AI Gateway refresh centralizes AI traffic management, offering unified billing, secure key storage, dynamic routing, and built-in security through a single endpoint. The update integrates Cloudflare Secrets Store for AES-encrypted BYO keys, provides an automatic normalization layer for requests/responses across providers, and introduces dashboard-driven Dynamic Routes for traffic splits, chaining, and limits. Native Firewall DLP scanning and configurable profiles add data protection controls, while partner access to 350+ models across six providers and a credits-based billing beta simplify procurement and cost management.

Cloudflare's Edge-Optimized LLM Inference Engine at Scale

⚡ Infire is Cloudflare’s new, Rust-based LLM inference engine built to run large models efficiently across a globally distributed, low-latency network. It replaces Python-based vLLM in scenarios where sandboxing and dynamic co-hosting caused high CPU overhead and reduced GPU utilization, using JIT-compiled CUDA kernels, paged KV caching, and fine-grained CUDA graphs to cut startup and runtime cost. Early benchmarks show up to 7% lower latency on H100 NVL hardware, substantially higher GPU utilization, and far lower CPU load while powering models such as Llama 3.1 8B in Workers AI.

Cloudflare Workers AI Adds Leonardo and Deepgram Models

🚀 Cloudflare is expanding Workers AI to include closed-source partner models from Leonardo and Deepgram, bringing optimized image generation and real-time audio capabilities to the edge. The launch includes Leonardo's @cf/leonardo/phoenix-1.0 and @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin and Deepgram's @cf/deepgram/nova-3 and @cf/deepgram/aura-1. These models run on Cloudflare's low-latency GPU infrastructure and integrate with Workers, R2, Images, and Realtime for end-to-end developer workflows.

Securing Cloud-Native Workloads From Code to Runtime

🔒 Lacework FortiCNAPP unifies CSPM, CWP, CIEM, and CDR to secure cloud-native workloads from development through runtime. It integrates with CI/CD pipelines to scan IaC, container images, and libraries, and leverages FortiDevSec for static and dynamic testing so vulnerabilities are caught before deployment. At runtime, behavior-based workload protection, cloud audit log analysis, and Fortinet Composite Alerts produce high-fidelity detections, while FortiWeb and automation via FortiSOAR enable edge blocking and orchestrated remediation.

Skopeo for Google Cloud: Simplifying Container Workflows

📦 This post describes how Skopeo, a daemonless CLI for container images, can streamline image management with Artifact Registry and Google Cloud CI/CD. It outlines setup steps and five practical workflows—inspect manifests, registry-to-registry copying, listing tags, promoting images, and automated verification. The article also covers security integrations with tools like Cosign and Binary Authorization, and recommends Skopeo for faster, daemonless automation in Cloud Build and related environments.

Total Economic Impact of ChromeOS: ROI, Savings, Security

📊 Google commissioned a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study to quantify the value of ChromeOS for enterprise deployments. The analysis modeled a composite organization (multinational, $5B revenue, 40,000 employees) and found a 208% ROI over three years, an NPV of $6.8M, and a payback period under six months. Key benefits included 90,000 saved productivity hours, $1.3M in device and licensing savings, $1.2M from strengthened security, and $1.1M in reduced IT support costs.

AWS Console Adds Account Color Settings for Quick ID

🎨 Today AWS announced general availability of account color settings in the AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. Account administrators can assign a persistent color (for example, red for production or yellow for testing) that appears in the Console navigation bar for all authorized users, enabling quick visual identification of accounts. The default color is grey; viewing the color requires AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess or the custom permission uxc:getaccountcolor.

CrowdStrike Named Leader in IDC MarketScape 2025 IR Services

🔹 CrowdStrike was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response Services 2025 assessment, recognized for its AI-native Falcon platform and a global 24/7 incident response model. The company combines over 100,000 hours of annual IR casework with frontline breach expertise to speed detection, investigation and containment. Its follow-the-sun delivery and AI-augmented tooling reduce time-to-recovery, while proactive offerings like CrowdStrike Pulse Services help customers build long-term resilience.

Amazon Braket local device emulator for verbatim circuits

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers a local device emulator to test verbatim circuits with device-specific constraints and realistic noise models before running on quantum hardware. The emulator validates qubit connectivity, native gate sets, and topology while applying depolarizing channels to one- and two-qubit gates using device calibration data and local density-matrix simulation. It supports both real-time and historical calibration snapshots and can be instantiated from AWS quantum devices or custom device properties via the Amazon Braket SDK, integrating into existing workflows so developers can catch compatibility and performance issues early without incurring hardware costs.

AWS Client VPN Adds Connectivity for IPv6 Resources

🔒 AWS Client VPN now supports secure remote access to IPv6-enabled VPC resources, allowing administrators to connect remote users and devices directly to IPv6 workloads. Administrators can deploy IPv6-only or dual-stack Client VPN endpoints to preserve end-to-end IPv6 connectivity and simplify network design for organizations adopting IPv6. This capability expands prior IPv4-only support and helps meet IPv6 adoption and compliance goals. The feature is generally available in all Client VPN regions except Middle East (Bahrain) and is provided at no additional cost, with IPv6 and dual-stack endpoints billed at the existing per-hour endpoint rate.

Google Named a Leader in IDC Incident Response 2025

🔒 Google has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025, recognizing Mandiant—now integrated into Google Cloud Security—for its decades of incident response expertise. The report praises Mandiant’s "team of teams" model, rapid crisis communications capability, and integration with Google's SecOps platform. Proprietary tools like FACT and Monocle and combined threat intelligence with VirusTotal enhance enterprise-scale investigations.

Amazon GameLift Streams Adds Default Application Controls

🚀 Amazon GameLift Streams now gives developers finer control over default applications for stream groups. You can create stream groups without assigning a default, change which linked application serves as the default, or unlink a default without deleting the group. The service console and APIs — including UpdateStreamGroup, AssociateApplications, and DisassociateApplications — have been updated to manage default application configurations.

Amazon RDS for Oracle adds ECC384 CA and ECDSA ciphers

🔒 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports an ECC384 Certificate Authority and two new ECDSA cipher suites for SSL and OEM Agent options on Oracle Database 19c and 21c. The added cipher suites — TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 — offer security comparable to RSA with shorter keys and lower CPU usage. To enable them, select rds-ca-ecc384-g1 as the CA for your DB instances and follow the documented steps to add SSL or modify OEM Agent settings.