All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🔧 AWS announced general availability of AWS DevOps Agent, an autonomous operations assistant that investigates incidents, triages alerts, and recommends fixes across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments. It integrates with observability tools, runbooks, code repositories, and CI/CD pipelines to reduce MTTR from hours to minutes. The release adds Azure and on-prem investigation, custom agent skills, and enterprise reporting and pricing integration with AWS Support credits.

🔧 AWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling infrastructure-as-code provisioning of Direct Connect resources. You can define your entire Direct Connect topology in CloudFormation templates and automate creation and management of connections, virtual interfaces, Direct Connect gateways, LAGs, and BGP peering. This capability is available in all AWS Regions and supports repeatable, version-controlled deployments with drift detection.

💬 Amazon Connect now offers a click-to-run chat simulation capability that lets teams validate self-service and agent chat workflows with minimal setup. Tests can be configured with channel, customer attributes, intent or reason, expected responses and business conditions such as after-hours or full queues. Results present pass/fail status, the interaction path and detailed logs to speed diagnosis, and multiple tests can run concurrently. Integrated analytics surface common failure patterns so organizations can deploy and iterate with greater confidence.

🔒 AWS announced general availability of AWS Security Agent for on-demand penetration testing in six AWS Regions. The service runs autonomous, persistent AI agents that discover, validate, and report vulnerabilities using sophisticated multi-step attack scenarios tailored to each application, producing CVSS scores, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance. Previewed at re:Invent 2025, it aims to convert periodic manual testing into a continuous, scalable capability and supports multicloud and on-premises environments. New customers can try a 2-month free trial and review pricing and documentation to get started.

🛡️Programmable Flow Protection lets Magic Transit customers author and deploy custom eBPF programs across Cloudflare’s global edge to define what constitutes legitimate UDP traffic. Programs run in a verified userspace BPF VM and can pass, drop, or challenge packets using helper functions for state, cryptographic validation, and challenge emission. In beta for Magic Transit Enterprise customers, the feature enables stateful, protocol-aware DDoS mitigation that distinguishes legitimate clients from scripted or replay attacks.

🔔 AWS announced that AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now publishes CA utilization metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing visibility into certificate issuance counts and the number of CAs per Region. The metrics track certificates issued by each CA and total CAs in a Region, enabling CloudWatch alarms and automation to replace or transition CAs approaching quota limits. This capability helps prevent quota-related service disruptions for services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS Service Connect, and Amazon WorkSpaces.

🔒 Work has shifted into the browser, creating a broad visibility and control gap as employees access SaaS, collaborate with GenAI and interact across unmanaged devices. Legacy perimeter and endpoint tools cannot see last-mile actions such as sensitive uploads to unsanctioned models, malicious extensions, or agentic browser behaviors that reassemble malware in memory. Prisma Browser restores control with context-aware policies, embedded Enterprise DLP, continuous page inspection and governance for both human and agent activity, enabling safe AI use without blocking innovation.

🔒 IDC interviewed security leaders from global enterprises to quantify the business value of adopting a Hybrid Mesh Network Security architecture. The findings emphasize that a single control plane for managing firewalls across on‑premises, cloud, and remote environments reduces tool sprawl and operational complexity. Organizations reported faster policy deployment, improved incident response, and better alignment with initiatives such as AI transformation, enabling security teams to shift from reaction to proactive prevention and to demonstrate measurable ROI.

📍 Amazon Location Service now supports GrabMaps, offering simplified APIs that remove the need for upfront resource creation and accelerate integration for maps, places, and routing across Southeast Asia. GrabMaps delivers region-specific, frequently refreshed geospatial data informed by Grab's regional operations. The capability is available in ap-southeast-1 and ap-southeast-5 and covers eight countries, enabling faster development of logistics, ride-hailing, and consumer location services.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces a new lookup command that lets you enrich log query results by joining log fields with external CSV-based reference tables. Upload a CSV file via CloudWatch → Settings → Logs and reference the table in Logs Insights queries to translate opaque IDs, IPs, or internal resource identifiers into human-readable values at query time. The CSV data does not count toward CloudWatch Logs Insights per-GB scanned query charges, and the capability is available today in all commercial AWS Regions.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless in seven additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka, Hyderabad, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town). This expansion enables policy-based data protection and recovery for Redshift Serverless data warehouses in those Regions. Administrators can add resources to existing backup plans or create new plans and attach Redshift Serverless resources, using the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs to get started.

🤖 Dev Signal is a multi-agent system designed to turn raw community signals into reliable technical guidance by automating the path from trend discovery to expert content creation. It relies on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize integrations with Reddit, Google Cloud Docs, and a custom Nano Banana Pro MCP server, all coordinated by a Root Orchestrator that manages three specialist agents. A dual-layer memory model uses Vertex AI for long-term embeddings while the Session Service preserves short-term state, with automated callbacks and tools (save_session_to_memory_callback, PreloadMemoryTool, LoadMemoryTool) to persist and fetch user preferences and stylistic signals.

🛠️ AWS announced seven new AWS-managed transformations for Transform custom, designed to accelerate code modernization across multiple languages and frameworks. General availability includes a comprehensive codebase analysis that produces hierarchical, cross-referenced documentation and a Node.js version upgrade with full dependency modernization. Early access transformations target Java performance tuning, Log4j to SLF4J migration, Angular to React conversion, and Angular and Vue version upgrades. All AWS-managed transformations are validated, customizable, and benefit from continual learning; the service is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

🔍 AWS announces general availability of AWS Transform custom's comprehensive codebase analysis transformation, delivering up-front deep static analysis that documents architecture, technical debt, code metrics, and migration plans to preserve institutional knowledge and reduce documentation overhead. The transformation supports any language — including Python, Java (Maven and Gradle), Node.js, and .NET — and scales to codebases exceeding one million lines. Behavior analysis is available in early access. To run it locally, install the AWS Transform CLI and execute: atx custom def exec -n AWS/comprehensive-codebase-analysis -p. The service is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

🏢 Amazon RDS for Oracle is now available on AWS Outposts, enabling customers to run a managed Oracle database service on-premises with the same operational model used in AWS Regions. The offering supports Oracle Database 19c and 21c under a BYOL model and includes automated backups, automated patching, point-in-time recovery, CloudWatch monitoring, and encryption at rest with AWS KMS. It also supports multi-AZ deployments across Outposts racks for high availability and provides options for disaster recovery to the parent AWS Region or across Outposts.

☁️ Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region, enabling customers to deploy, operate, and scale Db2 databases in the cloud within minutes. RDS provisions automatically configured parameters to optimize performance and supports Multi‑AZ synchronous replication to a standby instance for high availability. Licensing options include hourly pay‑as‑you‑go purchases from the AWS Marketplace or Bring Your Own License (BYOL), available in both Standard and Advanced Editions. Usage may be eligible for the Database Savings Plan.

🆕 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Developer Edition is a free, full-featured, non-production license that mirrors Enterprise capabilities, helping teams reduce licensing costs for development, testing, and demonstrations. Amazon RDS-managed features — automated backups, automated software updates, monitoring, and encryption — are supported for SQL Server 2019 and SQL Server 2022 instances.

🚀 Amazon CloudFront now supports bringing your own IPv6 addresses (BYOIP) for Anycast Static IPs using VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Administrators can create unified IPAM pools for IPv4 (/24) and IPv6 (/48) and assign dual‑stack Anycast Static IP lists, preserving existing allow‑lists and branding when migrating to CloudFront. The feature is available in most commercial AWS Regions with a few regional exceptions.

📈 Amazon S3 Express One Zone now publishes request metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing minute-level visibility into request counts, data transfer volumes, error rates, and latency for latency-sensitive applications. These request metrics complement existing storage metrics and are accessible via the CloudWatch console, S3 console, S3 API, and AWS CLI across all Regions where the storage class is available. Standard CloudWatch pricing applies.

🔁 Amazon CloudWatch centralization now supports selecting logs by data source name and type in addition to log group names. Customers can target AWS service logs (automatically discovered) and application logs (via log group tags) to copy telemetry from multiple accounts and regions into a single destination account. Rules can focus on types like VPC Flow Logs, EKS Audit Logs, and CloudTrail Logs to simplify security and operational monitoring. Create or modify centralization rules in the console, AWS CLI, or SDKs; standard CloudWatch Logs pricing applies for ingestion, storage, and data transfer.