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Dataproc 2.3 on Google Compute Engine: Lightweight Security

🔐 Dataproc 2.3 on Google Compute Engine provides a streamlined image that includes only the essential core components for Spark and Hadoop, reducing the attack surface and simplifying compliance. The image is FedRAMP High compliant and leverages both automated CVE remediation and manual engineering intervention for complex fixes. Optional tools like Flink, Hudi, Ranger, and Zeppelin are available on-demand during cluster creation, or can be pre-baked into custom images to speed provisioning while preserving the security benefits of the lightweight base.

Google Named Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape for GenAI

🏆 Google Cloud announced it was named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide GenAI Life-Cycle Foundation Model Software, spotlighting the Gemini model family and the Vertex AI platform. The post highlights Gemini 2.5’s expanded “thinking” capabilities and new cost controls such as thinking budgets and thought summaries for improved auditability. It also underscores native multimodality, creative variants like Nano Banana, developer tooling including the Gemini CLI, and enterprise features for customization, grounding, security, and governance.

Google Cloud G4 VMs: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GA

🚀 The G4 VM is now generally available on Google Cloud, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and offering up to 768 GB of GDDR7 memory per instance class. It targets latency-sensitive and regulated workloads for generative AI, real-time rendering, simulation, and virtual workstations. Features include FP4 precision support, Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning, an enhanced PCIe P2P interconnect for faster multi‑GPU All-Reduce, and an NVIDIA Omniverse VMI on Marketplace for industrial digital twins.

AWS Parallel Computing Service Adds Support for Slurm v25.05

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm v25.05, enabling PCS clusters to run the latest Slurm capabilities. The release introduces enhanced multi-cluster sackd configuration so login nodes can manage multiple clusters without requiring sackd reconfiguration or restarts, allowing administrators to preconfigure user access across clusters. It also implements improved requeue behavior that automatically retries failed instance launches during capacity shortages, increasing scheduling resilience and overall cluster reliability.

Microsoft Removes Additional Safeguard Holds for Windows 11

✅ Microsoft removed two safeguard holds blocking Windows 11 24H2 installs. The April hold affecting systems using SenseShield's sprotect.sys driver—which could trigger BSODs—was lifted after a security.sys driver update; the feature update will be offered within 48 hours. The September 2024 hold for wallpaper customization apps that caused display and virtual-desktop issues was removed on October 15, 2025; affected devices may see a warning and must confirm before upgrading. Microsoft advises updating or uninstalling problematic apps or contacting their developers for support.

Mandiant Academy: Practical Network Enrichment Course

🛡️ Mandiant Academy and Google Cloud introduce Protecting the Perimeter: Practical Network Enrichment, a short-form training track to sharpen network traffic analysis and CTI operationalization. The curriculum covers five core methodologies—PCAP, netflow, protocol analysis, behavioral baselining, and historical review—and demonstrates how to enrich each with CTI and analytical tradecraft. It is aimed at practitioners who need focused, time-efficient skills to improve detection and investigation.

Moloco and Google Cloud Power AI Vector Search in Retail

🔎 Moloco’s AI-native retail media platform, integrated with Vertex AI Vector Search on Google Cloud, delivers semantic, real-time ad retrieval and personalized recommendations. The joint architecture uses TPUs and GPUs for model training and scoring while vector search runs efficiently on CPUs, enabling outcomes-based bidding at scale. Internal benchmarks report ~10x capacity, up to ~25% lower p95 latency, and a ~4% revenue uplift. The managed service reduces operational overhead and accelerates time-to-value for retailers.

Axion C4A and N4 VMs Now GA for Cloud SQL Enterprise

🚀 Google has made Axion-powered C4A and Intel-based N4 virtual machines generally available for Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus and Enterprise editions, promising substantial gains in throughput and price-performance. Hyperdisk Balanced storage is supported on both families to boost I/O, increase throughput, and allow independent configuration of capacity, throughput, and IOPS. Customer tests report lower costs, reduced latency, and large throughput gains. These machines are available in select regions; check Cloud SQL pricing and region documentation for details.

BigQuery Studio updated with streamlined console UI

🔧 BigQuery Studio unveils a simplified, organized console interface designed to help data analysts, engineers, and scientists work more efficiently. The update introduces an expanded Explorer view for easier resource discovery, a context-aware Reference panel that surfaces table schemas and lets you insert query snippets, and a decluttered layout including a dedicated Job history tab. These changes reduce context switching and tab proliferation so users can focus on analysis.

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: Centralized Capacity View

📊 Amazon today announced general availability of Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a console and API capability that centralizes monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity across accounts and Regions. The tool provides dashboards and drilldowns for On-Demand, Spot, and Capacity Reservations, historical trends, optimization recommendations, and exportable data for integration. Available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost.

Google's 2025 Cybersecurity Initiative: New Protections

🔒 Google is expanding protections during Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 with new features and guidance to counter scams and AI-driven threats. The company outlines a cohesive strategy for securing the AI ecosystem and introduces six new anti-scam measures to help users stay safe. It also launches Recovery Contacts to simplify account recovery and debuts CodeMender, an AI agent that automates code security. Additional updates support safer learning through responsible tools and partnerships.

OpenSearch Service Adds Graviton4 EC2 Instance Support

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton4-based EC2 instance families — compute-optimized C8g, general-purpose M8g, and memory-optimized R8g/R8gd — across multiple regions. Graviton4 processors deliver up to 30% better performance compared with Graviton3 and are supported on all OpenSearch versions as well as Elasticsearch 7.9 and 7.10. The change is intended to improve price-performance for compute-, general-, and memory-intensive search and analytics workloads.

Amazon EC2 C8g Instances Expand to More AWS Regions

🚀 Amazon has made EC2 C8g instances available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne). These Graviton4-powered instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based instances and are optimized for compute-intensive workloads such as HPC, batch processing, gaming, video encoding, distributed analytics, CPU-based ML inference, and ad serving. Built on the AWS Nitro System, C8g instances provide larger instance sizes (including bare metal), up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking, and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth to improve both performance and security.

AWS Systems Manager: Windows Security Update Alerts

🛡️ AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now notifies when Windows security updates are available but not approved by a customer's patch baseline. The feature adds a new patch state, AvailableSecurityUpdate, and by default surfaces these instances as Non-Compliant, helping administrators spot missing security patches even when using long ApprovalDelay windows. Organizations can preserve existing reporting by configuring patch baseline behavior. The capability is available in all Regions and incurs no additional charges; administrators can enable it from the Patch Manager console or documentation.

AWS Bedrock Guardrails: Customer-Managed KMS Keys Support

🔐 AWS now supports customer-managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks. Customers can encrypt policy content and test artifacts with their own keys instead of the default key, retaining control over lifecycle and access. This capability helps regulated organizations meet compliance requirements and is available in all Bedrock Guardrails regions. Refer to AWS documentation and the Bedrock console to get started.

Monitor Groups for Load Balancing: Multi-Service Health

🔍 Cloudflare introduces Monitor Groups for Load Balancing to assess application health across multiple dependent services rather than relying on a single probe. You can bundle up to five monitors, mark some as must_be_healthy (critical) or as monitoring_only (observational), and apply a quorum rule so transient failures don’t trigger global failover. Health checks run from dozens to hundreds of global data centers, creating a geographically distributed consensus. Available via API for Enterprise customers now, Dashboard access for all users is coming soon.

ExPRT.AI: Predicting Which Vulnerabilities Will Be Exploited

🔍 ExPRT.AI, embedded in Falcon Exposure Management, leverages CrowdStrike threat intelligence and real-time telemetry to predict which vulnerabilities attackers are most likely to exploit. Instead of relying solely on static CVSS ratings, it evaluates adversary tradecraft, observed exploit activity, software prevalence, patch adoption, and attack complexity to produce a daily exploitability score. These explainable scores feed directly into Falcon workflows to accelerate triage, prioritize fixes by real-world risk, and reduce manual noise in vulnerability management.

Microsoft Named Leader in 2025 Gartner SIEM Magic Quadrant

🔒 Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). The announcement highlights Microsoft Sentinel as a cloud- and AI-powered SIEM that centralizes security data via a purpose-built data lake and supports agentic AI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The platform emphasizes cost optimization, SOC automation, and integrated SOAR, UEBA, and threat intelligence to accelerate detection and response.

AWS Marketplace Adds Purchase Order Line Number Support

🧾 AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order (PO) line numbers for Marketplace transactions, allowing customers to associate charges with a specific PO line during procurement and for future charges post-procurement in the AWS Marketplace console. Invoices show the related purchase order and PO line number in the Billing and Cost Management console, helping teams accurately match invoices to POs. This capability is available today in all supported AWS Regions.

Amazon Timestream Now Adds Managed InfluxDB 3 Support

🚀 Amazon Timestream now offers managed support for InfluxDB 3, enabling developers and DevOps teams to run InfluxDB 3 databases as a managed service. InfluxDB 3 introduces a new architecture built on Apache Arrow for in-memory processing, Apache DataFusion for query execution, and columnar Parquet storage with persistence to Amazon S3 to improve query performance and scale for high-cardinality workloads. The service is available in two editions—Core (open source, near real-time) and Enterprise (multi-node, HA, compaction for long-term storage)—with Enterprise supporting initial multi-node clusters up to three nodes. Available in all Regions where Timestream for InfluxDB is offered; see the console, documentation, and pricing to get started.