All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🔒 Check Point has integrated with NVIDIA DSX Air’s cloud-based testing environment to let organizations pre-validate security-aware AI data center designs before deploying hardware. The capability enables large-scale simulation and end-to-end validation of AI Factory deployments across compute, networking, orchestration and security. By validating integrations, configurations and automation in advance, teams can reduce resource intensity and accelerate secure rollouts.

⚙️Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports dynamic idle resource sharing, letting teams borrow unallocated compute capacity beyond their guaranteed quotas. Administrators can set both percentage-based and absolute borrow limits for resource types such as accelerators, vCPU, and memory to ensure fair distribution. HyperPod automatically recalculates borrowable resources as instances and quota policies change, and eligible ready, schedulable instances—including partitioned GPU configurations—contribute to the borrowable pool. This capability is available for EKS-based HyperPod clusters across multiple AWS Regions.

🔗 Amazon Neptune now supports reading S3 data directly from openCypher via the new neptune.read() procedure. This lets users federate S3-resident datasets into queries without preloading them into the graph. The feature handles standard and Neptune-specific formats (geometry, datetime), uses the caller's IAM credentials for access, and is available in all regions where Neptune runs.

🚀 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise now supports expanded multi-node clusters up to 15 nodes, enabling 1–4 combined writer/reader nodes, 0–13 dedicated reader-only nodes, plus a dedicated compactor node for long-term storage. Multi-node deployments distribute nodes across Availability Zones for improved fault tolerance and availability. You can add and remove nodes on Enterprise clusters, upgrade from Core to Enterprise, and configure custom topologies via the console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.

🔒 Microsoft announced new Purview innovations for Fabric to help organizations discover sensitive data risks, prevent oversharing, and improve governance and data quality across their data estate. Updates include general availability of DLP policies for Fabric Warehouses and KQL/SQL DBs, Insider Risk Management for lakehouses, and preview capabilities for Copilots and Agents. The Unified Catalog also gains publication workflows and data quality checks for ungoverned assets to better prepare trusted data for AI.

🤖 AWS announces general availability of AWS Partner Central agents, AI-powered agentic capabilities built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to accelerate partner co-selling. Agents provide pipeline insights, tailored sales plays, and next-step recommendations, and can populate CRM fields from transcripts, notes, and emails. They also identify funding eligibility, pre-fill funding requests, and are available in all commercial AWS Regions.

🚀 Microsoft outlines how moving from legacy on-prem Oracle to Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the new Azure HorizonDB can reduce costs, boost performance, and improve agility. The post highlights an Apollo Hospitals migration that cut operational costs by 60%, improved uptime to 99.95%, and delivered a 3x performance gain. It also describes an AI-assisted Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tool integrated into VS Code that automates schema and application conversion, testing, and validation to reduce risk and accelerate adoption.

📤 Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data directly to Amazon S3 in standard JSON format. Exports run in the background with no impact on database performance and support cross-region and cross-account targets, multiple encryption options, and flexible S3 bucket configuration. The capability is available in all SimpleDB regions and is accessed via three new APIs — StartDomainExport, GetExport, and ListExports — with built-in rate limits; there is no additional charge for the tool, though standard data transfer fees apply.

📧Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Exchange Online outage that is preventing customers from accessing mailboxes and calendars. The company acknowledged the incident at 06:42 AM UTC and reported problems across Outlook on the web, Outlook desktop, Exchange ActiveSync, and other Exchange Online connection protocols. Microsoft said telemetry shows recovery for some users while engineers apply configuration changes and continue to monitor service health.

🔍 The new Gemini-powered assistant in BigQuery Studio makes the agent context-aware by integrating active query tabs with the chat interface, eliminating copy-paste and context-switching. It generates advanced SQL, including AI operators and federated queries, to support more complex analyses from simple prompts. Built-in job analysis examines job history to diagnose long-running queries, failures, and cost drivers while respecting access permissions.

🚀 At NVIDIA GTC 2026, Google Cloud announced an expanded co‑engineering partnership with NVIDIA centered on the new Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer, designed to address the infrastructure demands of agentic and large-scale MoE workloads. The updates include momentum for G4 VMs powered by NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Server Edition, a preview of fractional G4 VMs using NVIDIA vGPU, and planned support for NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack systems. Software integrations such as NVIDIA Dynamo with GKE Inference Gateway, Vertex AI Model Garden additions, and a public sector AI startup accelerator target lower latency, higher throughput, and more flexible consumption for inference and training.

📧 Amazon Connect now lets agents forward email contacts to external email addresses and distribution lists directly from the Agent workspace and Contact Center Panel. When forwarded, agents retain ownership and the complete communication trail of the original contact, keeping a single point of contact for customers. This streamlines collaboration with back-office teams, subject matter experts, partners, and stakeholders. Email forwarding is available in multiple AWS regions.

🔒 Fortinet was named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cyber-Physical Systems Protection Platforms, highlighting recognition of the Fortinet OT Security Platform. The vendor positions its solution as a unified approach that delivers OT-aware controls—automated discovery, protocol visibility, segmentation, and ruggedized firewalls—while avoiding disruption to uptime and safety. Fortinet emphasizes integrated networking and security to reduce complexity and accelerate detection and response across converged IT/OT environments.

🔒 Fortinet has been named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Protection Platforms. The recognition underscores the capabilities of the Fortinet OT Security Platform to secure converged IT/OT environments through deep OT visibility, protocol-aware segmentation, and integrated networking and security. Fortinet emphasizes unified management, ruggedized firewalls, secure SD-WAN, ZTNA, NAC, and AI-driven operations to reduce risk while preserving uptime and safety in industrial settings.

⚠️ Microsoft removed the Samsung Galaxy Connect app from the Microsoft Store after a joint investigation concluded the app (used for screen mirroring, file sharing and data transfer) was triggering "C:\ is not accessible – Access denied" errors on certain Windows 11 Samsung Galaxy Book 4 and desktop models. Affected users reported blocked applications, failure to access files, and privilege elevation problems that impeded diagnostics. Samsung republished a stable previous version to stop further occurrences, but recovery options for impacted devices remain limited. Microsoft and Samsung have not published a workaround yet; users should contact Samsung for device-specific support.

🔒 Google is testing a change in Android 17 Beta 2 within its Advanced Protection Mode that blocks apps not designated as accessibility tools from using the system Accessibility Services API. Apps without the isAccessibilityTool="true" flag will have existing permissions revoked when AAPM is active, and users cannot grant new access until the mode is turned off. Verified assistive tools such as screen readers and Braille programs remain exempt.

🔁 Cloudflare and CDW present a pragmatic, phased approach to migrate from legacy VPNs to a SASE-based Zero Trust architecture, prioritizing coexistence over disruptive cutovers. Their methodology uses a risk-aware, tiered application classification and Cloudflare Access wrapping to add SSO, MFA, and outbound-only tunnels without rewriting legacy code. The approach couples a pre-migration audit with staged pilots and dual-client rollouts to preserve service continuity and provide rollback paths.

🔐Betterleaks is a new open-source secrets scanner developed by Zach Rice and supported by Aikido Security as the successor to Gitleaks. It inspects directories, files, and Git repositories using rule-defined validation with CEL and a token-efficiency approach based on BPE tokenization. Implemented in pure Go to avoid CGO/Hyperscan dependencies, Betterleaks adds automatic decoding of doubly/triply encoded secrets, expanded provider rules, and parallelized Git scanning for faster analysis. The project is MIT-licensed and maintained by a small, cross-industry team.

🔁 AWS now supports IAM Identity Center multi-Region replication, enabling workforce access and supported AWS managed applications to operate from additional Regions for improved resiliency and lower latency. Administrators create a multi-Region customer-managed KMS key, replicate it to target Regions, and add those Regions in the Identity Center console. External IdP configurations (for example, Okta or Microsoft Entra ID) must be updated with new ACS and access portal URLs so both service-provider and IdP-initiated flows work. Instance-level management remains centralized in the primary Region while additional Regions provide read-only replicated configuration and local application access.

🔒 AWS Security Agent now integrates with AWS Service Quotas, giving teams a centralized view of applied limits and utilization for security workloads. Users can request quota increases through the Service Quotas console, and eligible requests are automatically approved to reduce manual intervention. The update explicitly covers pentesting limits, including action hours and concurrent pentest jobs, helping security and development teams scale testing without unexpected constraints.