All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🚀 Cloud SQL now supports autoscaling for read pools in MySQL and PostgreSQL, enabling dynamic adjustment of read-replica capacity based on CPU utilization or average database connections. Read pools present a single stable read endpoint for 1–20 nodes, simplifying application configuration during traffic spikes. Autoscaling is generally available with the Enterprise Plus edition and helps reduce operational overhead, optimize costs by scaling in during low demand, and maintain high availability.

🚀 Google Cloud has made Valkey 9.0 generally available on Memorystore, delivering substantial throughput and latency improvements for high-performance caches and message queues. The release builds on IO-threading work and introduces pipeline memory prefetching, zero-copy responses, and SIMD-optimized commands to improve real-world performance at scale. New developer features include per-field hash expirations, GEOSEARCH BYPOLYGON, and DELIFEQ for safer distributed locks without Lua. Customers reported meaningful gains during preview, and existing instances can be upgraded in-place with no downtime.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) up to 4.5 GHz, C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance, and 33% more memory bandwidth versus C7a. Offered in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options and built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target latency-sensitive, compute-intensive workloads and are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🛡️ Amazon Inspector adds agentless Windows EC2 vulnerability scanning, extending detection to Windows OS issues as well as common applications and packages like WordPress, Apache HTTP Server, Python packages, and Ruby gems. Customers receive findings automatically with no configuration changes. Inspector also replaces per‑CVE Windows findings with consolidated Windows Knowledge Base (KB) findings that group CVEs by patch and surface the highest CVSS, EPSS, and exploit availability. These capabilities are available in all AWS Regions.

🔒 AWS Config has added 75 new managed rules to help govern security, durability, and operational best practices across AWS environments. You can discover, enable, and manage these rules directly from AWS Config, and apply them at account or organization scale. The release includes coverage for services such as Amplify, SageMaker, Route 53, and more, and supports grouping via Conformance Packs for streamlined multi-account deployment.

🔒 Cloudflare expands Regional Services with Custom Regions, enabling customers to define precise geographic boundaries for TLS termination and Layer 7 processing. The update also adds Cloudflare-managed regions for Turkey, the UAE, IRAP (Australia) and ISMAP (Japan). Custom Regions use expressions like country_code to build membership sets, enabling localized AI inference, targeted campaigns, government deployments, and corporate-aligned governance while retaining global L3/L4 DDoS protection.

🚀 Amazon Redshift now accelerates new queries by up to 7x, improving response times for low-latency SQL workloads such as BI dashboards, ETL pipelines, near‑real‑time analytics, and autonomous AI agents. The service uses a composition-based compilation optimization that lets queries start immediately while highly optimized, query-specific code is compiled in the background. This enhancement is enabled by default across provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups in commercial AWS Regions, requires no customer action, and is provided at no additional cost.

🚀 At SQLCon 2026 in Atlanta, Microsoft detailed enhancements that position its database portfolio as a foundation for agentic AI and unified analytics across edge, PaaS, and SaaS. Key announcements include Azure SQL innovations such as GitHub Copilot in SSMS, a one‑year Savings Plan for databases, and Hyperscale advances (vector index performance, SQL MCP Server, and larger vCore options). The new Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric (early access) and enterprise security features for SQL in Fabric aim to simplify migration, governance, and AI‑driven app development.

🧩 Microsoft outlined a strategy at FabCon and SQLCon 2026 to converge its database portfolio and Microsoft Fabric into a single, unified data platform. Key highlights include the new Database Hub (early access) for unified estate management across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server via Arc, and Fabric Databases. The company also showcased enhancements to OneLake, Runtime 2.0, Fabric IQ, agent experiences, migration assistants, and a database savings plan that can reduce costs up to 35% for eligible scenarios.

🔒 Reco has introduced Reco AI Agent Security, a capability designed to give enterprises visibility and control over autonomous AI agents operating across SaaS environments. The tool detects agent activity beyond traditional OAuth discovery by analyzing API call patterns, service-account correlations, and automation workflow signatures in platforms like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Zapier and n8n. It consolidates agent discovery, risk analysis, and governance into Reco's existing SaaS security platform.

🔍 Mesh CSMA operationalizes Gartner's Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture to unify disparate security tools into a single, contextual risk model that reveals multi‑hop attack paths to crown jewels. The agentless platform automatically discovers critical assets, builds an identity‑centric Mesh Context Graph™, correlates misconfigurations, entitlements, and vulnerabilities, and ranks complete attack chains by live threat intelligence. It prescribes and orchestrates precise cross‑domain remediations mapped to existing tooling and continuously validates detection coverage so teams can close exploitable paths before they are used.

🔍 Cisco Talos introduces DispatchLogger, an open-source DLL that transparently instruments late-bound COM (IDispatch) interactions to enhance malware analysis visibility. The tool hooks COM instantiation APIs and returns proxy objects that forward calls while logging method names, parameters, return values, and object relationships. It supports recursive wrapping, enumerator proxies, and moniker handling to reveal high-level automation events often missed by low-level API tracing. Deployment requires injecting the DLL into target processes and preserves COM lifetime and threading semantics.

🤖 This article introduces Dev Signal, a prototype multi-agent system built with Google ADK, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Cloud Run to automate discovery, grounding, and content creation. It outlines prerequisites, project structure, and an MCP-based toolset that integrates a Reddit discovery proxy, the managed Developer Knowledge MCP for documentation grounding, and a local Nano Banana Pro image generator. The piece explains secure secret handling, subprocess-based local tooling, and the ADK modular design to accelerate development.

🔒 CrowdStrike is introducing new GovCloud capabilities designed to help federal, state, and local agencies modernize cyber defenses while maintaining FedRAMP compliance. Falcon Flex offers a commitment-based purchasing model to simplify procurement and consolidate tooling. New Charlotte AI features bring natural-language interactions and an automated Response Agent to speed investigations. GovCloud additions include Falcon for XIoT, External Attack Surface Management, and behavioral malware analysis to improve IT/OT visibility, detection, and response.

🔒 CrowdStrike Falcon Platform for Government now includes Falcon for XIoT, delivering FedRAMP High–authorized visibility and protection for connected and operational technology assets. The solution provides native, zero‑touch XIoT asset discovery with deep protocol support and ICS vendor validation to preserve operational continuity across critical infrastructure. It also leverages AI-powered risk prioritization to surface and rank high‑risk conditions across converged IT/OT environments.

🔎 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom metadata search filters, enabling teams to narrow catalog results using organization-specific attributes like business region, data classification, or study name. Filters accept string fields with a contains operator and numeric fields (Integer, Long) with equals, greater than, and less than operators. Users can also filter by asset name, description, and date range, combine multiple filters, and retain selections across browser sessions; the feature is available in all AWS Regions where Unified Studio is supported.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch 3.5, introducing agentic AI enhancements, improved search relevance tooling, and expanded observability capabilities. The update adds persistent agentic conversation memory to capture multi-turn context and tool reasoning, plus context management that automatically truncates and summarizes inputs to reduce LLM token costs. A redesigned no-code agent interface with MCP integration and expanded search relevance workbench—including LLM-powered evaluation and scheduled experiments—helps teams tune and validate agent-driven search experiences without code.

🗣️ Amazon Connect now supports agentic speech-to-speech voice experiences in the Europe (London) AWS Region and introduces three new voices: Pedro (es-US), Amy (en-GB) and Brian (en-GB). These agentic AI agents can understand, reason and take action across voice and messaging channels, adapting responses to match customer tone and sentiment while preserving natural conversational pacing. The expansion increases regional availability and voice variety to help organizations deliver more personalized, automated customer interactions.

🎥 AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports NDI® as a live video source, enabling broadcasters and production teams to ingest NDI streams and convert them to transport stream outputs such as SRT for downstream distribution. This capability lets teams bridge NDI-based production environments with standards-based cloud distribution workflows without custom transcoding or protocol conversion infrastructure. NDI support is available in most regions where MediaConnect is deployed; consult AWS documentation and pricing for details.

🔒 AWS Security Agent now lets users generate and download customizable penetration testing reports in PDF format. Reports include an executive summary, test scope and methodology, task details, and comprehensive findings with vulnerability data and risk assessments. Users can filter outputs by risk and confidence levels, finding and task status, and risk types to tailor reports for executives, engineers, or auditors. The capability is intended to accelerate on-demand pentesting from weeks to hours and simplify cross-team review and sharing.