All news with #cloud security tag

📡 AWS now publishes two CloudWatch metrics — VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState — for Outposts racks in AWS GovCloud (US‑East and US‑West) where Outposts are available. These metrics show Local Gateway (LGW) and Service Link VIF connectivity and BGP session state (VifConnectionStatus: 1=operational, 0=not ready; VifBgpSessionState: 1–6 from IDLE to ESTABLISHED). View them in the CloudWatch console to set alarms, troubleshoot connectivity, and reduce dependence on external networking tools or cross‑team coordination.

🔒 The Fulu Foundation has offered a US $10,000 bounty to anyone who can modify Ring doorbell cameras so they operate locally and stop sending footage to Amazon's servers. The prize requires a demonstrable method to redirect recordings to an owner's own computer or server rather than to cloud services. The initiative follows public privacy backlash over Ring's Super Bowl ad and broader worries about data ownership and consent.

🔖 AWS Compute Optimizer now automatically tags EBS snapshots it creates when snapshotting and deleting unattached Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes. The tag — aws:compute-optimizer:automation-event-id — stores the unique automation event identifier, linking each snapshot to the optimization action that produced it. This makes it easier to identify, track, and manage snapshots created through manual or automated optimization workflows. The feature is available in all Regions where Compute Optimizer Automation is provided.

🔐 Microsoft introduces a fully localized sovereign stack enabling mission-critical operations in connected, intermittently connected, and fully disconnected environments. Azure Local provides on-premises Azure governance and policy controls even with no external connectivity, while Microsoft 365 Local runs core productivity servers inside customer boundaries. Foundry Local brings large multimodal model inferencing to secured, offline hardware so organizations can run AI locally and retain full data and operational control.

🛡️ CrowdStrike reports that adversaries shifted in 2025 from expanding toolsets to prioritizing evasion, using AI to refine phishing, malware scripts, and reconnaissance while favoring malware-free techniques that blend with legitimate user activity. AI-enabled attacks rose 89% year over year and malware-free methods accounted for 82% of detections. Supply chain compromises, rapid zero-day weaponization, and cloud-focused intrusions amplified stealth, with big-game ransomware groups moving to remote encryption and credential abuse to minimize detection.

🔍 Amazon S3 server access logs now include the AWS source region for each request, indicating the Region where a request originated. This information appears automatically at the end of every log entry (for example, a request to a us-east-1 bucket from us-west-2 will show "us-west-2") and requires no configuration or additional cost. The update helps teams identify cross-region traffic to optimize performance and cost and will roll out to all Regions in the coming weeks.

☁️ Amazon has expanded S3 Tables to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing integrated Apache Iceberg support and automated table maintenance to regulated cloud regions. S3 Tables continuously optimize storage layout and query performance while leveraging Intelligent-Tiering to manage costs based on access patterns without performance impact. The capability enables querying by popular AWS and third-party engines and reduces operational overhead for data lake teams.

⚠️ On February 20, 2026, Cloudflare introduced a change to how it manages BYOIP addresses that triggered a cleanup sub-task to erroneously withdraw customer prefixes via BGP, causing connectivity failures for affected customers. About 1,100 prefixes (≈25% of BYOIP prefixes on the peer) were withdrawn, including a subset of one.one.one.one. Engineers reverted the change, restored configurations, and resolved the incident in roughly six hours; Cloudflare confirmed the issue was not due to malicious activity.

🔒 Google Cloud argues Europe does not need to choose between digital sovereignty and economic growth. The company promotes a partnership-led model that combines advanced AI capabilities (including Gemma and Gemini-class technology) with flexible infrastructure and multicloud choice. Emphasis is placed on interoperability, local control, and security certifications such as SecNumCloud, along with options like Google Cloud Air-Gapped and Dedicated deployments. The aim is to enable growth while preserving control and resilience.

🔌 Google Cloud now offers managed MCP servers for databases and developer tooling, enabling MCP-compliant AI agents (including Gemini) to access data and infrastructure without deploying additional infrastructure. The expansion adds AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable and Firestore, plus a Developer Knowledge MCP server for IDE documentation access. These servers use IAM-based authentication and Cloud Audit Logs for observability and governance, letting teams scale agentic workloads securely.

🔔 Amazon Connect Cases now integrates with AWS Service Quotas, enabling administrators to view applied limits, monitor utilization, and request quota increases directly from the Service Quotas console. Eligible quota requests can be automatically approved, reducing manual approval bottlenecks. Available in multiple AWS Regions, this update helps teams scale case workloads and avoid unexpected service constraints.

🔗 Ab Initio and Google Cloud announce integrations of data connectors, metadata connectors, and agent capabilities to help enterprises build agentic AI across hybrid environments. The integration federates distributed data into a unified layer and extends Dataplex with bi-directional metadata exchange, lineage, and active metadata. Together with BigQuery and Gemini, this enables explainable, auditable agents that operate on trustworthy, multi-cloud data.

🔗 Google Cloud and Ab Initio announced an integrated suite of data and metadata connectors, agents, and governance capabilities to give Gemini and other AI models reliable access to enterprise data across hybrid environments. The partnership federates over 500 sources and supplies field-level lineage from 100+ extractors to populate Dataplex and BigQuery with AI-ready context. This unified metadata hub aims to support explainable, auditable agentic AI while preserving distributed data ownership and compliance.

📣 The Voice of the Customer track highlights customer-led sessions focused on real-world operational challenges in security and networking. Speakers from industries such as retail, media, healthcare, and industrial operations share practical decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes using approaches like unified SASE, secure SD-WAN, cloud security, and automation. Emphasis is on results—policy consistency, improved visibility, faster incident response, and operational scalability—rather than idealized architectures.

🌐 Google today announced America-India Connect, a multi-year initiative anchored by a five-year $15 billion AI infrastructure investment in India to expand connectivity across four continents. The program will build a new subsea gateway in Visakhapatnam, add three subsea paths linking India to Singapore, South Africa, and Australia, and deploy four strategic fiber-optic routes between the United States, India, and Southern Hemisphere locations. These investments aim to boost network resilience, capacity, and affordable access to digital services while supporting skilling and government training platforms.

🔧Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the latest Graviton4-based EC2 instance families — compute-optimized c8g, general-purpose m8g, and memory-optimized r8g and r8gd. AWS reports up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3, offering improved price-performance for compute, general, and memory-intensive workloads. Support covers all OpenSearch versions and open-source Elasticsearch 7.9 and 7.10, with expanded regional availability.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the latest x86-based, storage-optimized i7i instances powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. i7i delivers up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price-performance compared with prior-generation i4i instances, plus 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs for faster, more consistent storage. Storage improvements include up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower I/O latency, and up to 60% lower latency variability. Support is available across many commercial, regional, and GovCloud AWS Regions; check region-specific pricing and availability.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances in Europe (Ireland), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. These memory-optimized instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations, with workload-specific gains for PostgreSQL, NGINX, and AI recommendation models. R8i includes 13 sizes including bare-metal and a new 96xlarge, while R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge to help right-size deployments.

🔒 Amazon has released Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3.12 with MySQL 8.0.44, delivering security enhancements, numerous bug fixes, and availability improvements for Aurora clusters. Administrators can initiate a manual minor version upgrade or enable Auto minor version upgrade during DB cluster creation or modification to receive the update. The release is rolled out in all AWS regions that support Aurora MySQL. Aurora continues to offer built-in security, continuous backups, serverless options, and multi-Region replication.

📈 Amazon now emits resource count metrics from EventBridge Scheduler to CloudWatch, enabling teams to track the approximate number of schedules and schedule groups in an account. The metrics surface usage trends and indicate when you are approaching service quota limits so you can request increases before capacity is exhausted. These metrics are available at no extra cost in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud.