All news with #product launch tag

🤖 AWS has launched the AWS AI League 2026 Championship, expanding its flagship AI tournament with new challenge tracks and a doubled prize pool of $50,000 to drive builder innovation. The program pairs a brief orientation with two competition tracks: a Model Customization track using Amazon SageMaker AI to fine-tune foundation models for domain-specific tasks, and an Agentic AI track using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build planning and execution agents. Enterprises can apply to host internal tournaments and receive AWS credits to run team competitions, while individual developers can compete at AWS Summits to test skills and build with AWS AI services.

🔗 AWS has opened a preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud, a new service to create private, resilient, high-speed links between Amazon VPCs and other cloud providers. The preview launches with Google Cloud as the initial partner and a planned expansion to Microsoft Azure in 2026. It integrates with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Cloud WAN, and Amazon VPC, and is available in five AWS Regions via the AWS Management Console. CSPs can adopt the capability through a published open API package on GitHub.

🔧 The AWS MCP Server is now in preview and offers a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface that consolidates the prior AWS API MCP and AWS Knowledge servers into a single endpoint. It enables AI agents and AI-native IDEs to access AWS documentation, generate and execute calls to over 15,000 APIs, and follow pre-built Agent SOPs to perform multi-step tasks. Authentication and authorization use AWS IAM, and audit logging is provided via CloudTrail; the service is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia), with customers paying only for resources and data transfer.

🔐 This post introduces the AWS provider for the Secrets Store CSI Driver and the new Amazon EKS add-on that mounts Secrets Manager secrets and Systems Manager parameters as files in Kubernetes pods. The add-on simplifies installation compared with Helm or kubectl, supports EC2 and hybrid nodes, and includes security patches and FIPS endpoint options. The walkthrough covers prerequisites, creating a test secret, installing the add-on, configuring an IAM role and EKS Pod Identity association, deploying an example pod that mounts the secret at /mnt/secrets-store, validating retrieval, and cleaning up resources.

🔐 The AWS API MCP Server is now available on AWS Marketplace, enabling customers to deploy the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as a managed offering. The marketplace deployment provides built-in authentication (SigV4 or JWT), session isolation, and simplified container management while enabling configurable IAM roles and network settings to meet enterprise security requirements. Customers also benefit from AgentCore's logging and monitoring capabilities and regional availability where Bedrock AgentCore is supported.

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🔒 AWS has launched Network Firewall Proxy in public preview, providing centralized controls to block data exfiltration and malware injection across application traffic. In explicit proxy mode you can set up filters in just a few clicks to control outbound requests and the responses your applications receive, protect against domain or SNI spoofing, and restrict access to trusted domains or IPs. The service supports TLS inspection and granular HTTP header filtering, and emits detailed logs to Amazon S3 and AWS CloudWatch. Preview access is free in US East (Ohio).

🔎 Amazon Web Services has introduced Agentic Search for OpenSearch Service, an agent-driven layer that interprets natural-language intent, orchestrates search tools, and generates OpenSearch DSL queries while providing transparent summaries of its decision process. The built-in QueryPlanningTool uses LLMs to plan and emit DSL, removing the need for manual query syntax. Two agent types are available: conversational agents with memory and flow agents optimized for throughput. Administrators can configure agents via APIs or OpenSearch Dashboards, and Agentic Search is supported on OpenSearch Service version 3.3+ across AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of automatic quota management in Service Quotas. The feature sends configurable notifications (email, SMS, Slack) via the Service Quotas console or API when usage approaches allocated limits and can automatically and safely adjust service quota values in response to observed consumption. This reduces operational overhead from tracking and requesting quota increases across accounts and Regions and helps prevent unexpected interruptions. The capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial regions.

🖼️ Cloudflare now hosts Black Forest Lab's FLUX.2 image model on the Workers AI inference platform. The licensed dev release builds on the popular FLUX.1 lineage with stronger physical-world grounding, improved fidelity for faces, hands and small objects, and advanced multi-reference editing to preserve character and product consistency. Workers AI exposes FLUX.2 via multipart form-data (up to four 512×512 inputs) and returns images up to 4 megapixels, while supporting JSON prompting, hex color controls, multilingual prompts, and a server-side binding for integration into production pipelines.

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), offering 6TB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs powered by custom Intel Sapphire Rapids processors. The instances support up to 100Gbps for EBS and networking and include ENA Express for lower-latency, consistent network performance. They are positioned for mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, enabling higher transaction throughput and faster data loading and backups.

💬 AWS announced general availability of Amazon Quick Suite Embedded Chat, a ready-made conversational AI you can embed into applications via one-click embedding or API-based iframes. The agent unifies structured data and unstructured knowledge in a single conversation so users can reference KPIs, pull file details, check customer feedback, and trigger actions without leaving the app. Connectors include SharePoint, websites, Slack, and Jira, and enterprises retain control over data access and action scopes. Embedded Chat is available in select Regions with no additional charge beyond existing Quick Suite pricing.

🧭 AWS announced the Address Form Solution Builder for Amazon Location Service, a no-code tool that creates customizable address forms with predictive suggestions, autofill for fields like postal code, and an integrated map view. Developers can generate a ready-to-use application in minutes and download a developer package in React JavaScript, React TypeScript, or standalone HTML/JavaScript. The builder aims to speed address entry, reduce errors, and improve delivery and fraud outcomes for enterprise applications.

🔧 Application Load Balancer now includes Target Optimizer, which enforces a maximum number of concurrent requests per target to align load with processing capacity. You enable it by creating a target group with a target control port and running an AWS-provided agent on each target. The feature can be configured per target group and is available in AWS Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions. Note that enabled target groups consume additional LCUs and may increase costs.

🖥️ Amazon Web Services now publishes Apple macOS Tahoe (v26) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for EC2 Mac instances, enabling developers to build and test with Xcode 26 and the latest Apple platform SDKs. These AMIs run on Apple silicon EC2 Mac instances and are backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for stable, high-performance storage. Images include the AWS CLI, Command Line Tools for Xcode, Amazon SSM Agent, and Homebrew with the AWS Homebrew Tap. macOS Tahoe AMIs are available in all AWS regions that offer Apple silicon Mac instances and can be launched via the Console, CLI, or API.

🚀 Beginning today, Amazon has made Amazon Bedrock available in Africa (Cape Town), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain). The managed service provides secure access to a variety of foundation models and tools for building and operating generative AI applications and agents. With regional endpoints, customers can reduce latency and address data residency and compliance needs. To get started, customers can consult the Bedrock documentation and regional resources.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain). The managed service provides access to multiple foundation models and tools to build, deploy, and operate secure, scalable generative AI applications and agents. Customers in these Regions can expect lower latency, improved regional data options, and an easier path from experimentation to production.

📺 AWS has announced the general availability of Elemental MediaConnect Router, a managed capability that dynamically routes live video between sources and destinations across the AWS network. The service reduces transport latency and improves packet delivery reliability compared with standard transport methods, and supports routing across regions as well as between private and public endpoints. It is accessible via the MediaConnect console, API, or AWS CDK, works alongside existing MediaConnect flows, and integrates with the broader AWS Elemental media services to simplify live-video operations and reduce unused capacity and reconfiguration overhead.

🗂️ Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports File Server Resource Manager (FSRM), enabling file classification, file screening, folder-level quotas, and storage reporting for managed Windows file systems. FSRM events can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or streamed to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and used to trigger AWS Lambda for automated responses and workflows. The capability is available today at no additional cost for new file systems across all Regions where FSx is offered; existing file systems will gain support during a scheduled maintenance window.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 M7i instances in the Europe (Zurich) region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) available only on AWS. M7i delivers up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance versus M6i. Instances scale to 48xlarge and include two bare-metal sizes with built-in Intel accelerators that offload data operations and optimize CPU-bound workloads.