All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🛡️ The AWS European Sovereign Cloud has published initial independent assurances including SOC 2 Type 1 and C5 Type 1 attestations plus seven ISO certifications covering 69 services. Announced after general availability in January 2026, these reports validate control design and implementation mapped to the ESC-SRF, with EU-resident operations and strict data residency. Customers can access the reports via AWS Artifact; AWS plans to expand coverage over time.

🔍 ESET positions its threat intelligence and telemetry as essential tools for organizations facing increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, including AI-enabled attacks and convincing deepfakes. ESET Telemetry reports a 12% decline in overall detections in India (Jan–Aug 2025), but ransomware surged 70% from H2 2024 to H1 2025 and phishing remains the most common vector. The vendor bundles endpoint, XDR, identity protection, MDR, and analyst-driven APT reporting to help CIOs and CISOs stay ahead.

🔐 AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with GitHub and Amazon, expanding social login options beyond Google and Apple. The change enables developers to access AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, and Kiro using existing GitHub or Amazon credentials. This reduces password management overhead, lowers forgotten-password incidents, and streamlines both new user registration and returning sign-ins for builders and students.

🤖 Amazon Connect has enhanced its AI-powered predictive insights to support up to 40 million product catalog items (an 8× increase), integrate recommendations into message templates for trigger-based campaigns, and improve model accuracy by up to 14%. These updates, built on the five recommendation algorithms from re:Invent 2025, reduce training and deployment time so businesses can deliver automated, personalized outreach faster. Public preview is available across multiple AWS regions and Amazon Connect Customer Profiles remains pay-as-you-go.

📧 Amazon Connect now supports conversational analytics for email contacts, enabling automatic categorization, PII redaction, and generated contact summaries to streamline supervision and compliance. Administrators enable the capability by adding a Set recording, analytics and processing behavior block to contact flows and can specify which PII types to redact and whether redactions show specific or generic markers. Teams may store original and redacted versions in separate locations, enable contact summaries, and use analytics to create rules that trigger actions such as assigning categories, creating tasks, or updating cases. The capability is available across multiple AWS regions.

🤖 Amazon Connect introduces a preview AI assistant that enables contact center managers to ask operational questions in natural language and receive answers in seconds. The assistant supports queries across 150+ Connect metrics with historical context, eliminating hours of manual data gathering. It can also diagnose issues—such as queues at risk of missing service levels—and recommend targeted recovery actions. Preview access is limited; customers must request access through their AWS account team.

🔧 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports in-place increases of cluster storage volumes above 3 TiB, removing the previous hard limit that forced blue/green deployments for large expansions. Domains already above 3 TiB still require a blue/green deployment the first time they increase, but subsequent increases will not. Decreases or rapid successive increases continue to require blue/green; use the dry-run option to verify whether your change requires one.

🔐 Microsoft is introducing passkey support in Microsoft Entra for Windows, enabling phishing-resistant, passwordless sign-ins via Windows Hello. The opt-in feature enters public preview worldwide from mid‑March through late April 2026, with government clouds (GCC, GCC High, DoD) following mid‑April through mid‑May. Passkeys are device-bound, stored in the Windows Hello container, and never transmitted over the network, preventing credential theft and MFA bypass. IT administrators must enable the Passkeys (FIDO2) authentication method, create a passkey profile including the required Windows Hello AAGUIDs, and assign the profile to appropriate groups to enroll devices.

🔒 AWS announced a major expansion of AWS Security Hub, repositioning it as a unified security operations solution that aggregates signals from across the stack and across clouds. The service now consolidates findings from services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Security Hub CSPM, and Amazon Macie into a single pane for prioritized risk analytics. An Extended plan simplifies procurement and partner integrations, with AWS as seller of record and pay-as-you-go billing. AWS says forthcoming multicloud capabilities will add a common data layer, unified policies, expanded vulnerability scanning, and external network exposure checks.

🤖Agent Designer is now available within Gemini for Government on GenAI.mil, enabling Department of Defense civilian and military personnel to build customized AI agents for unclassified tasks using natural language. This no-/low-code platform lets users automate repetitive, multi-step administrative workflows—such as drafting meeting read‑aheads, extracting action items, or breaking projects into task checklists—without programming skills. Google Public Sector is supporting the rollout with training and office hours run in partnership with the U.S. Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to accelerate adoption and responsible use.

🔍 Cloudflare’s redesigned Security Overview dashboard helps security teams turn overwhelming telemetry into prioritized, actionable remediation. The interface introduces Security Action Items — ranked by Critical, Moderate, and Low — alongside a Detection Tools module that indicates whether protections are actively enforcing or left in "Log Only" mode. Suspicious Activity cards deep-link into Security Analytics to preserve filters and speed triage.

🔍 Cloudflare's Log Explorer centralizes 14 new datasets to give analysts correlated, edge-to-core telemetry for investigating multi-vector attacks. By combining HTTP requests, Firewall, Zero Trust access, IDS, DNS and gateway logs, teams can rapidly reconstruct reconnaissance, exploitation, and exfiltration chains. The platform reduces detection time and supports schema-driven ingestion for future data sources. It also improves ingestion latency and enables concurrent queries for faster, correlated forensics.

🔍 Cloudflare will integrate Mastercard’s RiskRecon into its Security Insights dashboard, enabling continuous discovery, monitoring, and remediation of Internet-facing blind spots with a preview for pay-as-you-go and Enterprise customers in Q3 2026. RiskRecon maps an organization's public internet footprint to reveal shadow IT, forgotten subdomains, and unprotected hosts that internal scans may miss. Cloudflare will surface criticality ratings for discovered hosts and guide remediation — for example by enabling the Cloudflare proxy, WAF, DDoS protection, and stronger TLS settings — so teams can prioritize and rapidly neutralize exposed risks.

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, they deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than C7i models. C8i-flex addresses common compute workloads (large–16xlarge), while C8i targets memory-intensive needs with 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge.

🌐 AWS has made Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver generally available, delivering an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver that provides secure, reliable DNS resolution for authorized clients worldwide. The service is available across 30 AWS Regions and supports both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS query traffic. It offers DNS query filtering to block malicious, NSFW, and advanced DNS threats like DNS tunneling and DGAs, includes centralized query logging, and now adds protection against Dictionary DGA threats. New customers can explore a 30-day free trial.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks has launched Prisma AIRS in the Singapore cloud region to provide locally hosted, AI-native cybersecurity for organizations adopting generative AI and agentic workflows. The regional landing delivers capabilities across AI Model Security, AI Red Teaming, AI Runtime Security, and AI Agent SSPM, addressing risks such as prompt injection, model tampering and sensitive data leaks. Local hosting supports data residency, regulatory alignment and improved performance for enterprises in Singapore.

📈 Amazon Web Services has increased Amazon CloudWatch Logs query capacity: accounts can now run up to 100 concurrent Logs Insights queries (up from 30) and execute up to 10 StartQuery and GetQueryResults API calls per second per account per region using Logs Insights QL. Customers should see reduced throttling, faster result retrieval, and improved dashboard responsiveness. The update is available across a broad set of AWS regions, enabling larger teams and automated systems to run more parallel queries.

⚙️ Amazon is introducing User Preferences in Amazon Quick Suite, enabling end users to control how Quick looks and behaves. Users can set the Chat panel to open expanded or collapsed and Quick will remember their last state. They can choose a default chat agent and a default knowledge scope for My Assistant, provide a preferred name and area of focus, and view or manage memories to make responses more relevant.

🔔 Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions, offering the full set of features and tiers to implement secure sign-in and access control. The launch enables authentication for human users, AI agents, and microservices with regional endpoints to reduce latency and improve resilience. Customers can review AWS documentation for region listings, developer guidance, product details, and pricing.

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere now supports the FIPS 204 Module-Lattice Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA), a NIST-standardized, quantum-resistant digital signature algorithm. Customers can register ML-DSA-signed CA certificates as IAM Roles Anywhere trust anchors or reference AWS Private Certificate Authority instances, and issue end-entity X.509 certificates bound to ML-DSA keys. The capability is available in all Regions where IAM Roles Anywhere operates, including AWS GovCloud (US), the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), and China Regions.