All news with #product launch tag

🛠️ Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics, a unified console that combines CloudWatch Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights for integrated log querying, real-time streaming, and contributor identification. Users can run multiple queries in tabs, leverage patterns, saved queries with parameters, facets, natural language query generation, and visualizations. Live Tail and Contributor Insights are accessible within Log Analytics, which is the default experience, while opt-out users retain separate access to each feature. The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses existing pricing for Logs Insights queries, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). ECS Express Mode lets developers rapidly launch containerized applications with AWS-managed domains, public or private HTTPS, and automatic scaling. It consolidates up to 25 services behind a single Application Load Balancer with rule-based routing while keeping all resources fully accessible in your account. Deployments can be performed via Console, SDK, CLI, CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform; you pay only for the AWS resources provisioned.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. C8i delivers up to 20% higher performance than C7i and provides larger sizes, including a new 96xlarge and two bare metal options. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. C7i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance than C6i, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes with built-in Intel accelerators. They support Intel AMX, and permit up to 128 EBS volumes per instance to scale data-intensive workloads.

🛡️ Today AWS WAF introduced AI traffic monetization, a Bot Control feature that enables content owners to price, meter, and accept payments from AI bots and agents accessing content and APIs. Using the x402 protocol, AWS WAF returns a machine-readable HTTP 402 response with pricing, accepted methods, and license terms; upon proof of payment it verifies at the edge and issues scoped access tokens. Publishers can set differentiated pricing by agent identity and intent, view revenue analytics in the console, and receive payouts via third-party providers such as Coinbase’s x402 Facilitator, with Stripe and MPP support coming soon.

🔍 Today AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio, a unified querying and visualization experience inside the CloudWatch console. Query Studio supports PromQL and Metrics Insights to query OpenTelemetry and AWS-vended metrics across accounts and regions from a single workspace. It offers visual query builders, multiple visualization types, dashboard integration, Grafana import, and keyboard shortcuts.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion delivers lower latency and improved performance for customers in these geographies while supporting local data residency requirements. The new Regions provide access to Lightsail's full feature set, including instances (general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized), managed databases, container services, and load balancers with predictable pricing.

⚙️ AWS has launched Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Europe (Paris) region, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. These instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% improved price performance versus I4i, with up to 45TB NVMe storage and significant reductions in storage I/O latency and variability. I7i supports torn write prevention up to 16KB and comes in eleven sizes, including bare metal options, with up to 100Gbps network and 60Gbps EBS bandwidth.

🔥 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These 7th-generation U7i instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and provide 8 TiB of DDR5 memory for scaling transaction processing throughput. They deliver 448 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps EBS and network bandwidth, ENA Express, and up to 45% better price performance versus U-1 instances. U7i instances are targeted at mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🛡️ Anthropic released two Mythos-class models: the broadly available Claude Fable 5 and the restricted Claude Mythos 5 for select cybersecurity and infrastructure partners. Anthropic says Fable 5 outperforms prior Claude models across coding, research, vision, and long-form tasks while routing risky queries to a fallback, Claude Opus 4.8. The company stresses conservative safeguards to prevent misuse, but early tests suggest some benign cyber tasks are also being rerouted.

🚀 AWS has launched general availability for metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes across several M8 and R8 EC2 instance families powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest AWS Nitro cards. These new sizes offer up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU over prior generations and deliver up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth or up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth depending on the variant. Selected sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for lower latency in tightly coupled clusters and the metal sizes are initially available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia) region.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release with managed database benefits. PostgreSQL 19 introduces native graph query support via SQL/PGQ, concurrent table repacking, and improved logical replication features. Preview instances are retained for up to 60 days and snapshots are limited to the preview environment.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Agentic Search, enabling natural-language queries over users' data. The system interprets intent, plans searches, generates DSL queries, and returns results with transparent reasoning. A built-in QueryPlanningTool powered by LLMs translates requests and orchestrates retrieval; behavior can be customized via APIs or OpenSearch Dashboards. Agentic Search is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where OpenSearch Serverless operates.

🔔 Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers its modernized operational analytics UI in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling unified access to managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The release introduces Workspaces for team collaboration and a revamped Discover experience with multi-source data selection, PPL and SQL support, DQL and Lucene compatibility, updated visuals, and query autocomplete. The UI updates are available regardless of the underlying managed cluster or collection version.

🛡️ Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT‑5.4 in AWS GovCloud (US‑West), enabling government and regulated industry customers to use OpenAI's most capable frontier model with the security and compliance of GovCloud. GPT‑5.4 delivers native computer-use capabilities and advanced reasoning across coding, documents, and multi-step agentic tasks, running on Bedrock's high-performance inference engine. Data remains in-partition and is not used to train models.

🏆 Konvu, an AI-native vulnerability triage platform, won the inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup competition live on stage at Infosecurity Europe 2026. The startup beat four rivals and receives an exhibition stand at Infosecurity Europe 2027, PR support from Origin Communications and a branding workshop from Dusted. CEO Lucas Masson highlighted Konvu's agent-driven checks and evidence-backed exploitability decisions that integrate into existing workflows.

🐧 Microsoft unveiled Coreutils for Windows at Build 2026, delivering many familiar Linux command-line utilities as native Windows applications. Based on the open-source uutils project (a Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils), the release aims to let developers use the same commands across Linux, macOS, Windows, and WSL without changing workflows. The package is available on GitHub and via WinGet as a single coreutils.exe binary that exposes individual command names through NTFS hardlinks. Microsoft notes some command conflicts, POSIX limitations, and behavioral differences on Windows.

🧭 Microsoft announces the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, a platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows tailored to scientific and engineering R&D. The release includes a preview of the Microsoft Discovery app, a local desktop experience for researchers and small teams to explore hypotheses, literature, and iterative experimentation. The platform emphasizes evidence preservation, traceability, governance, and integration with existing tools and institutional data to support repeatable, transparent scientific workflows.

🚀 Microsoft announced early access preview of Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs at Build 2026, delivering up to 50% generational performance improvements over Cobalt 100 for agentic AI and cloud-native Linux workloads. The Cobalt 200 SoC, built on Arm Neoverse V3 and TSMC 3nm, features chiplets, custom accelerators, and enhanced memory and security capabilities. New VM families (including high-memory and dense local storage) expand deployment choices and are available in selected preview regions.

🔎 Foundry IQ streamlines bringing enterprise and external knowledge into agent workflows by unifying content, improving ingestion, and offering a serverless model for retrieval. The service provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, integrates Microsoft Web IQ for low-latency external context, and includes GA security and compliance features. Serverless Developer tier is in public preview with CU-based billing estimates and scale-to-zero capacity.