All news with #multi cloud security tag

🔐 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption, allowing each index to be encrypted at rest with its own AWS KMS customer managed key. This enables separation of data with different ownership or sensitivity within the same domain, useful for multi-tenant applications. The feature requires OpenSearch 3.3+, is available in 14 regions, and carries no additional feature charge beyond standard AWS KMS and service fees.

🔒 Today Google Cloud announced enhancements to the borderless Lakehouse to let data engineers, analysts, and AI agents query governed data in place across clouds. The update introduces preview cross-cloud caching for BigQuery to reduce remote data transfer by caching columnar blocks locally and preview cross-cloud connections to query non-Iceberg data. The features use the Apache Iceberg REST catalog spec, Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect, and default encryption to improve performance, security, and TCO for multi-cloud analytics.

🟦 Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, ranking highest for Ability to Execute. The post highlights how Azure Local and Azure Arc deliver a unified approach to manage infrastructure across datacenters, edge, multi-cloud, and sovereign environments. It explains options for sovereignty, disconnected operations, and AI inference at the edge with Foundry Local, emphasizing consistent management and operational simplicity.

🔗 Azure Multicloud Interconnect simplifies private connectivity between Azure and AWS by providing high-bandwidth, cloud-native links that abstract multicloud networking complexity. It extends to Azure Private Link for an end-to-end private path and offers features such as MACsec security, four-nines availability, and scalable capacities up to 100 Gbps at GA. The collaboration with AWS implements a standardized Open API to enable faster provisioning, operational simplicity, and potential wider interoperability across hyperscalers and carriers.

🔗 AWS has announced the public preview of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, enabling managed private connections between AWS and Microsoft Azure. The preview expands the multicloud interoperability framework first introduced at re:Invent 2025, which includes an open specification for network interoperability. Azure adoption of the specification provides a single managed experience for customers connecting workloads across AWS and Azure in selected regions.

🔍 The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has warned organisations about unique cybersecurity and compliance challenges in multi-cloud environments, where using multiple cloud service providers complicates consistent policy enforcement, controls and authentication. The report, published on August 21, identifies 23 specific challenges across identity and access, vulnerability management, incident response and data protection. NIST calls for improved governance, automation and standardisation and is seeking public comment until October 5, 2026.

🔒 AWS IAM Identity Center now offers a one-click multi-Region option when creating a new organization instance, simplifying what previously required multiple manual steps. The multi-Region instance choice automatically creates a customer managed multi-Region KMS key and replicates the instance to an additional Region to provide resilient access. Customers can also choose single-Region or custom instances, with custom allowing use of existing customer managed KMS keys and fine-grained Region configuration.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Aurora DSQL supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database offering active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. Each multi-Region cluster exposes writable endpoints in both peered Regions and provides a single logical database that stays available if one Region becomes unavailable.

🧭 Today at Next Tokyo, Google Cloud announced enhancements to its borderless Lakehouse built on Apache Iceberg, enabling cross-cloud, zero-copy analytics and federated catalogs. The platform lets Gemini Enterprise and conversational agents query and act on live data across on-prem, AWS, Azure, and major SaaS systems without heavy ETL. New features include catalog federation (preview), Cross-Cloud Interconnects with predictable pricing, intelligent caching, and integration with Knowledge Catalog for unified governance and context.

🔗 AWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloud for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling customers to provision resilient, scalable private connections between AWS and OCI. The service simplifies multicloud networking that previously required complex DIY solutions. OCI entered public preview in May and now joins Google Cloud as a supported provider; Microsoft Azure support is expected later in 2026. The feature is available in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region and can be created via Console, CLI, or API.

🛠️ AWS Systems Manager now connects to Azure Virtual Machines without manual agent installs or per-node advanced tier fees. Create a Cloud Connector to deploy the SSM Agent at scale so Azure VMs appear alongside EC2 in a unified console. Manage them with Session Manager, Automation, Run Command, State Manager, Patch Manager, and Inventory from a single workflow. Advanced Instances Tier is removed; pay-as-you-go for non-EC2 session and command usage begins Sept 30, 2026.

🔍 Cloud Network Insights is now generally available as a Google Cloud-native solution, delivered in partnership with Broadcom AppNeta, to provide end-to-end visibility across multi-cloud and hybrid networks. It uses lightweight Monitoring Points and active synthetic probes to measure RTT, packet loss, jitter, and application-level metrics like DNS and page-load times. The service integrates with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and supports OpenTelemetry, enabling proactive alerting, SLA validation, and rapid root-cause analysis.

🔒 This post shows how SaaS providers can use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore resource-based policies to control multi-tenant access to a shared AgentCore Runtime and Runtime endpoint. It walks through two tenant scenarios: cross-account access for Example Corp and VPC-restricted access for AnyCompany, demonstrating how to apply resource-level Allow and explicit Deny conditions. The article covers required IAM permissions, example policy files, and verification steps to ensure network- and identity-based constraints are enforced.

🔌 AWS now offers a free 500 Mbps Interconnect - multicloud tier to simplify private connectivity between AWS and other public clouds. The open specification behind Interconnect is already adopted by Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with Microsoft Azure planned later in 2026. The free tier provides a fully managed, resilient path (one local Tier 1 Interconnect per customer per region) and includes an Amazon CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor at no additional cost. Other CSPs set their own charges for their side of the link, so customers should review third-party pricing before creating an Interconnect.

🔔 AWS has opened the public preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling customers to provision resilient, private connections between AWS and OCI from the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) Region. The service implements an open specification already used for Google Cloud (GA) and planned for Microsoft Azure in 2026. Customers can create preview connections via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or API, simplifying multicloud networking and reducing the need for DIY global network architectures.

🔒 In this May 2026 Cloud CISO Perspectives entry, Vinod D’Souza and Anthony Belfiore outline how Google and Wiz are combining deep cloud telemetry with advanced AI research to address multicloud security challenges. They emphasize a developer-centric shift that moves remediation into code using tools like Wiz Code and sensors for hybrid Linux, vSphere, and Windows environments. The authors envision agentic SOCs and near real-time defenses that boost analyst efficiency while preserving human-in-the-loop oversight. The collaboration aims to accelerate self-healing infrastructure without compromising availability.

🌐 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports cross-region data access in OpenSearch UI, letting a single OpenSearch UI application query domains hosted in different AWS Regions without switching endpoints or replicating data. The capability works for domains in both public and VPC configurations and complements earlier cross-account data access so teams can combine accounts and Regions flexibly. It supports queries across primary and replica domains and uses both IAM and IAM Identity Center for authentication.

🔒 At Next '26 Francis deSouza framed Google Cloud's direction as preparing enterprises for an agentic future, positioning the platform as AI‑native, open, and secure. He argued that multicloud and multi‑AI are essential for resilience and highlighted AI-driven SOC automation outcomes including a 90% reduction in mitigation time and Triage and Investigation tasks collapsed from 30 minutes to 60 seconds using Gemini. The integration of Wiz was presented as a way to secure self‑hosted and multicloud AI lifecycles, while a new whitepaper and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform outline governance, prompt sanitization, and agent identity controls.

🔁 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replicating data from external Apache Kafka clusters—including on‑premises, self‑managed on AWS, or third‑party clouds—into MSK Express brokers. This capability simplifies workload migration, enables MSK Express clusters to act as failover or backup targets for disaster recovery, and supports hybrid and multi‑cloud data distribution. MSK Replicator preserves original topic names, prevents infinite replication loops, and synchronizes consumer group offsets bidirectionally to let producers and consumers move independently without data loss.

🚀 Cloudflare announced a unified AI inference platform that lets developers call models from multiple providers through one API and a single billing plane. Using the same AI.run() binding for Workers, teams can switch providers with a one-line change; REST support is coming for other environments. The update adds default gateways, automatic retries, finer logging, and centralized cost monitoring to reduce latency, improve reliability, and control costs for agentic workflows.