All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🧩 Google Cloud's Starter Tier for Google AI Studio provisions a managed, limited stack (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Firebase Auth) so individual Google Accounts can publish prototypes without a billing account. The environment is fully managed by Google, with region, APIs, and security policies preselected. It supports two active apps, a simplified console, and automatic agent-driven provisioning and code generation. Quotas, locked APIs, ephemeral storage, and upgrade paths to paid projects are explained.

🔒 At Zscaler’s Zenith Live 2026 in Vienna, the vendor argued that AI agents are rapidly becoming digital workers while regulators tighten data residency and supply‑chain threats move closer to core operations. Zscaler proposes extending its Zero Trust Exchange and SASE platform to govern AI agents, unmanaged devices, multi‑cloud workloads, and B2B partners, positioning zero trust as the control plane for secure AI adoption in regulated, highly connected markets like Southeast Asia. The company emphasised an AI Broker, endpoint AI security, and an AI Access Graph to map and protect AI assets and data flows.

🔐 Fortinet has observed malicious actors harvesting FortiGate credentials in an activity labeled "FortiBleed." Their initial analysis indicates attackers are reusing credentials from prior incidents and leveraging brute-force techniques against devices lacking strong passwords and multi-factor authentication. This is not a new Fortinet vulnerability and is unrelated to recent advisories. Fortinet is investigating, notifying impacted customers, and recommending immediate defensive actions and hardening.

🔒 Apple is changing the domain used for newly generated Hide My Email aliases from "@icloud.com" to "@private.icloud.com", a tweak that has drawn criticism from privacy-minded users. The shift makes generated addresses identifiable as aliases, potentially allowing sites to block anonymous sign-ups. Existing aliases will continue to function, while new ones will be issued on the new domain later this summer. Users warned this could reduce the feature's effectiveness for anonymity.

⚙️ Today Cloudflare announced Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents, enabling agents to run wrangler deploy --temporary to deploy Workers instantly without human sign-up. Temporary deployments remain live for 60 minutes and can be claimed by a user to become permanent; unclaimed accounts expire automatically. The feature integrates with Wrangler, which now informs agents about the --temporary flag, letting agent-driven development iterate quickly through deploy, verify, and redeploy cycles.

🛡️ AWS has introduced Continuum, a new platform that manages code vulnerabilities across discovery, prioritization, validation and remediation. Launched at AWS Summit New York on June 17, Continuum ingests both structured and unstructured data from an organization’s environment and begins in a human-supervised "learn mode." The platform includes the AWS Security Agent and features for pen testing, code scanning and threat modelling, with outputs in STRIDE format.

🚀 Palo Alto Networks is launching a local cloud location for Prisma® AIRS™ in Japan to secure emerging AI deployments. The expansion provides domestic data residency, low-latency processing, and phased rollout of comprehensive AI security features for models, agents, and artifacts. It aims to help Japanese organizations adopt Generative AI and agentic workflows with improved operational efficiency and cyber resilience.

📢 AWS today announced general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing infrastructure closer to end users. The Hanoi Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 including One Zone-IA, and Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and multiple volume types. Customers can enable the zone (ap-southeast-1-han-1a) via AWS Global View or the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API.

🛰️ Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports multilocation canaries, enabling teams to run a single canary across multiple AWS Regions from one management point. This eliminates the need to create separate regional canaries, reducing operational overhead and configuration drift. Replica canaries run independently while consolidating run data, metrics, and artifacts in the primary Region, and alarms can be configured to trigger only on multi-region issues. Multilocation canaries are available in all commercial AWS Regions that support CloudWatch Synthetics.

🔥 Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on all existing clusters at no extra cost. This feature, previously limited to newly created clusters, automates optimal partition balancing when scaling Express-based clusters up or down. Intelligent Rebalancing improves capacity utilization and performs rebalances up to 180× faster than Standard brokers while maintaining availability for producers and consumers.

🚀 Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster by supporting high-resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. AWS benchmarking shows time to trigger scale-out improved from 363s to 86s and total time to scale and provision tasks improved from 386s to 109s. Configure 20-second CPU or memory metrics via the AWS Console, CLI, CloudFormation, or SDKs; feature is available in all commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions and across Fargate, managed instances, and EC2. High-resolution metrics incur standard CloudWatch charges.

🚀 Today AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 delivers up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance versus G6 and supports AI inference, real-time cinematic graphics, game streaming, and large-scale data analytics. Instances offer up to 8 GPUs with 32 GB each, custom Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, and up to 700 Gbps EFA; available now in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon) as On-Demand, Savings Plans, or Spot.

🔒 When a major cyber incident occurs the CISO becomes the invisible CEO of crisis, making high‑pressure decisions while managing stakeholders and operational recovery. This intense role, combined with limited strategic influence and short tenures, drives burnout and turnover across EMEA. Preparation through exercises, clear measures of risk and a permanent strategic seat at the table are essential to build sustainable resilience.

🔒 Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking connectivity, allowing brokers to connect to private resources in your VPC without exposing them publicly. This simplifies secure access to private identity providers (such as LDAP and OAuth 2.0), other Amazon MQ brokers, or self-hosted RabbitMQ brokers. AWS manages the underlying infrastructure using Amazon VPC Lattice, AWS RAM, and AWS PrivateLink, replacing prior NLB and NAT Gateway workarounds. Private networking is available in Regions where VPC Lattice is supported.

🔐 This post shows how Kiro CLI, an AI-powered command line assistant, speeds AWS security investigations by proposing, explaining, and optionally executing AWS CLI commands while documenting each step. It demonstrates a GuardDuty-driven investigation following the AWS Security Incident Response Guide: triage, EC2 and IAM assessment, CloudTrail analysis, containment, and remediation. The walkthrough highlights benefits like faster triage, automated CloudTrail queries, and guided remediation, while advising human validation and forensic preservation.

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters. You can reserve UltraServers via EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and associate them with a PCS compute node group using an EC2 launch template, while PCS configures Slurm topology automatically. P6e-GB200 offers up to 72 GPUs, 360 petaflops FP8 (no sparsity), and 13.4 TB HBM3e; P6e-GB300 delivers 1.5x GPU memory and FP4 compute versus the GB200. PCS remains a managed Slurm-based service that simplifies building elastic HPC environments with integrated compute, storage, networking, visualization, managed updates, and observability.

🖥️ Starting today, AWS has expanded nested virtualization support to additional Intel-based instance families and US GovCloud regions. The feature is now available on C7i, R7i, M7i and their "-id" and "-flex" variants, plus I7i, C8i-flex, R8i-flex, M8i-flex and X8i, complementing earlier C8i, M8i and R8i support. US GovCloud (US-East) and US GovCloud (US-West) now also support nested virtualization in addition to all commercial regions. Customers can run KVM or Hyper-V inside EC2 instances for emulation, simulation, or WSL workloads.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now lets administrators interrupt an agent with an urgent contact, overriding normal routing so the agent can accept time-sensitive calls even while on another call. The capability can also target specific agents when they are in custom statuses that would otherwise prevent queued contacts, enabling personal extension or high-priority calls to ring through. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered and is documented in the Amazon Connect Customer Administrator Guide.

🔍 AWS Compute Optimizer now factors in additional CloudWatch signals—VolumeIOPSExceededCheck and VolumeThroughputExceededCheck—when producing Amazon EBS volume rightsizing recommendations. These metrics indicate when workloads consistently attempted to exceed provisioned IOPS or throughput in a minute. The feature aims to help balance cost and performance for bursty workloads and is available in all Compute Optimizer regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China.

🔒 Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the economic impact of consolidating security with its AI-first, end-to-end platform. Based on interviews and a survey of customers, Forrester modeled a composite 10,000-employee B2B organization and projected $30M in benefits against $13.4M in costs over three years, yielding a 124% ROI and $16.6M NPV. The study highlights faster decisions, reduced friction, and improved defender productivity as key operational gains.