All news with #product launch tag

🔐 AWS End User Messaging (Notify) now provides end-to-end managed one-time passcode (OTP) verification, enabling a complete verification flow in under five minutes. Notify generates, delivers, and verifies codes across SMS, voice, and WhatsApp, removing the need to provision phone numbers, register with carriers, or implement code storage and expiry logic. Administrators define a single notify code configuration — code type, length, validity, attempt limits, and channel templates — then call Notify to send and verify codes. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where End User Messaging is offered.

📣 AWS End User Messaging introduces Brand Profiles to centralize company and brand information for reuse across messaging registrations. This feature pre-fills registration forms for SMS, RCS, and WhatsApp, reducing repetitive data entry and lowering the risk of errors that can delay approvals. Brand Profiles supports both single-brand and multi-brand use within an AWS account and can be created from scratch or from existing registrations. It also offers an optional smart match AI feature to map fields with differing names. Brand Profiles is available in all commercial AWS Regions where the service is offered.

🚀 Amazon EC2 T8i instances are now available in South America (São Paulo). Powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon 6 processors and built on the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards, T8i offers up to 30% better price performance than T3 and comes in four sizes: nano, micro, small, and medium. These burstable instances target low to moderate CPU workloads such as small databases, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and low-traffic websites. T8i also delivers up to 70% higher compute, improved network and EBS bandwidth, uses the same CPU credit model as T3, and includes Free Tier options for micro and small.

🔔 Starting today, Amazon MSK Connect and the AWS Glue Schema Registry are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region, complementing existing Amazon MSK Standard brokers. MSK Connect provides fully managed Kafka Connect clusters to deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka and external systems with automatic scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing. The AWS Glue Schema Registry is a serverless feature that validates and controls streaming data formats using Avro, JSON, and Protobuf schemas, reducing validation logic and coordination across teams.

🚀 VoidZero open-sourced a unified toolchain that extends Vite into a full-stack platform integrating server routing, typed data access, local development databases, and Cloudflare deployment. Packaged as a single npm package and Vite plugin, Void includes an SDK, CLI, and platform that provision Cloudflare resources automatically and enable teams to self-host or deploy directly to Cloudflare.

🚀 Developers can now provision and connect Amazon S3, including S3 Tables and S3 Vectors, directly from the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel. The integration streamlines resource creation inside the Vercel developer environment, delivering S3 durability, scalability, and performance without leaving the workflow. New AWS accounts created through Vercel receive $100 in credits usable across S3, OpenSearch Serverless, and AWS database services.

🚀 Gemini 4 Argon is now available on Google Cloud to power long, multi-step enterprise work with improved precision and domain expertise. Argon reads mixed long documents, integrates findings across sources, and automates complex tasks from code optimization to legal and financial analysis. It includes safeguards for system boundaries, reporting, and pauses for confirmation before irreversible actions.

🛡️ VirusTotal unveils macOS Mirage, a new sandbox built natively for Apple Silicon and macOS 26 to replace Box of Apples. It captures high-fidelity behavioral telemetry, full graphics-accelerated screenshots, and kernel-supported security events, and ships with automated Sigma behavioral detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Private Scanning customers gain exclusive Interactive Live Analysis for hands-on detonation.

🛡️ Bitdefender's GravityZone AI Visibility and Control (AIVC) discovers AI software on Windows endpoints, identifying browser-based assistants, editor-integrated coding tools, local model runtimes, MCP connectors, and agent frameworks. The GravityZone BEST agent collects minimized metadata to record presence and configuration without inspecting prompts, credentials, or full file contents. AIVC recognizes over 50 agents and 70,000 skills, categorizes services into 17 functional groups, and provides two console views: AI Services for inventory detail and AI Findings for prioritized risks. It assigns risk scores to guide review while leaving enforcement to existing GravityZone controls such as Web Content Filtering, custom detection rules, and PHASR.

🛠️ Cloudflare announced that Logpush now supports in-pipeline SQL-based Transformers, generally available and rolled out to all self-serve plans. Transformers let customers filter, redact, and reshape NDJSON log batches before delivery, reducing downstream costs and complexity. The implementation embeds Apache DataFusion (Rust) into Bufstream (Go) via Arrow IPC and cgo to run transforms in-process with predictable performance and failure semantics.

🚀 Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Africa (Cape Town). This single-Availability Zone storage class is designed for consistent single-digit millisecond access and supports latency-sensitive workloads. S3 Express One Zone offers data access up to 10x faster and request costs up to 80% lower than S3 Standard. The expansion brings availability to 19 AWS Regions.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances are available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore), and M9g and M9gd instances are available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Europe (Spain). These instances use AWS Graviton5 processors and the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System, offering up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton4-based instances and hardware isolation via the new Nitro Isolation Engine. C9* instances target compute-intensive workloads; M9* instances address general-purpose and agentic AI workloads, while the *gd variants include NVMe SSDs for low-latency local storage. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, Spot, Dedicated Instances, and Dedicated Hosts.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8id instances with up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances provide a balance of compute and memory with high-speed local block storage, suited for data logging, media processing, and medium-sized data stores. They offer significant improvements in vCPU, memory, storage, compute performance, and memory bandwidth over prior generations, and include configurable network and EBS bandwidth and Elastic Fabric Adapter support on larger sizes.

🎯 Cloudflare announced Clef-omni, an extension of its open-weight Clef decision models that natively accepts audio, video, image, and text inputs in a single API call. They also reduced Clef-flash pricing and improved serving speeds. The company published weights on Hugging Face, updated developer docs, and shared benchmark and latency figures showing strong performance and low latency across modalities.

🎯 Amazon Bedrock now supports TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5, a video-to-text model that produces structured, time-coded metadata from video. Pegasus 1.5 reads entire videos and labels events with timestamps, enabling queries across large archives without prior indexing. You can define business-relevant concepts like segments, speaker changes, sports plays, or brand appearances and receive those moments in a single pass. The model is available through US and Global cross-Region inference profiles in Amazon Bedrock.

🤖 Google Cloud announced Gemini, a unified agent for work that integrates into Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat, and Calendar to perform knowledge tasks, create media, and write and run code. Gemini persists context and memory across devices, orchestrates sub-agents, and selects optimal models for each task while enforcing security, governance, and cost controls. The platform includes tools and skills registries, industry specializations, and new data analytics capabilities for business users and technical teams.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services introduced Strands Box, an open-source sandbox that restricts AI agent actions using OS-level isolation and policy controls. Released in developer preview on October 7 under Apache 2.0, it currently supports Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15+. Strands Box uses the Dogwood policy language and evaluation engine to factor in agent activity across tools, applying limits such as throttling Slack posts and gating network requests while attaching credentials securely. AWS plans broader platform support but warned of trade-offs including overhead and remaining gaps in coverage.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gb instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in multiple US, EU, and Africa regions. These instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based instances and provide increased EBS throughput (up to 300 Gbps) and IOPS. Instance sizes scale up to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory and up to 400 Gbps networking; select sizes support EFA for lower latency in tightly coupled clusters. Use cases include high-performance file systems and other storage- and network-intensive workloads.

🚀 Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS, offering the fastest and most efficient model in the Haiku 5.5 family designed for subagents and high‑volume, cost‑sensitive workloads. Anthropic reports Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less than Haiku 4.5 for many tasks while improving performance across coding, tool use, agents, and classification. Customers can access Haiku 5.5 via Amazon Bedrock for AWS‑resident deployments or via the Claude Platform on AWS for the native Anthropic experience integrated with AWS billing and authentication.

🔔 Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms. The post describes how Azure’s adaptive cloud — including Azure IoT, Azure Arc, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Foundry — connects cloud and edge to turn operational data into actionable intelligence. It emphasizes Industrial and Physical AI to create learning operations that improve productivity, resilience, and safety.