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AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for gateway Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance storage class designed for latency-sensitive applications. Organizations are adopting IPv6 networks to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to comply with regulatory requirements. You can […]
AWS – Amazon Braket notebook instances now support CUDA-Q natively
Amazon Braket notebook instances now come with native support for CUDA-Q, streamlining access to NVIDIA’s quantum computing platform for hybrid quantum-classical applications. This enhancement is enabled by upgrading the underlying operating system to Amazon Linux 2023, which delivers improved performance, security, and compatibility for quantum development workflows. Quantum researchers and developers can now seamlessly build […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now in Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Customers can now use Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) via US-GOV Cross-Region Inference. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most intelligent model, excelling at building complex agents, coding, and long-horizon tasks while maintaining optimal speed and cost-efficiency for high-volume use-cases. Claude Sonnet 4.5 currently leads the SWE-bench […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts
AWS Control Tower customers can now simply move their accounts to an Organizational Unit (OU) to enroll them under AWS Control Tower governance. This feature helps customers maintain consistency across their AWS environment and simplifies the account creation and enrollment processes. When enrolled, member accounts receive best practice configurations, controls, and baseline resources required for […]
GCP – No Place Like Localhost: Unauthenticated Remote Access via Triofox Vulnerability CVE-2025-12480
Written by: Stallone D’Souza, Praveeth DSouza, Bill Glynn, Kevin O’Flynn, Yash Gupta Welcome to the Frontline Bulletin Series Straight from Mandiant Threat Defense, the “Frontline Bulletin” series brings you the latest on the threats we are seeing in the wild right now, equipping our community to understand and respond. Introduction Mandiant Threat Defense has uncovered exploitation […]
GCP – Securing the mission: Google Public Sector’s CMMC Level 2 certification and commitment to national security
Google Public Sector is committed to supporting the critical missions of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by delivering cutting-edge cloud, AI, and data services securely. Today, we are marking an important milestone in that commitment: we have successfully achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 certification under the DoD’s CMMC program. This certification, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. C7i-flex instances provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered […]
AWS – AWS Private CA now supports post-quantum digital certificates
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now enables you to create certificate authorities (CAs) and issue certificates that use Module Lattice-based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA). This feature enables you to begin transitioning your public key infrastructure (PKI) towards post-quantum cryptography, allowing you to put protections in place now to protect the security of your […]
AWS – AWS adds IPv6 support for Amazon S3 Gateway and Interface VPC endpoints
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for AWS PrivateLink Gateway and Interface Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints for Amazon S3. The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude, and customers […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds support for catalog notifications
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides real-time notifications for data catalog activities, enabling data teams to stay informed of subscription requests, dataset updates, and access approvals. With this launch, customers receive real-time notifications for catalog events including new dataset publications, metadata changes, and access approvals directly within the SageMaker Unified Studio notification center. This launch […]