All news with #product launch tag

⚡ Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US‑West), featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors with up to 4.5 GHz. Compared with Hpc7a, Hpc8a delivers up to 40% higher compute performance, up to 25% better price performance, and up to 42% higher memory bandwidth. Built on sixth‑generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances are optimized for tightly coupled, latency‑sensitive HPC workloads such as CFD, weather forecasting, FEA, and multiphysics simulations.

🔒 Google has launched a global, open Chrome Enterprise Customer Community to help IT, security, and business leaders collaborate on browser management and deployment. The moderated platform brings together resources, official announcements, and event listings for teams managing Chrome across Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS. Members can post questions with a Google Account, access tailored guidance, and track product updates or join conversations about advanced features like Chrome Enterprise Premium.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of CDK Mixins in the aws-cdk-lib, enabling developers to attach composable, reusable abstractions to any construct (L1, L2, or custom) without rebuilding existing infrastructure code. Mixins use a concise .with() syntax to add behaviors like auto-delete, bucket encryption, versioning, and block public access, and multiple Mixins can be combined into custom L2 constructs. Teams can apply Mixins across scopes or use Mixins.of() for resource-type or path-pattern filtering, helping enforce reusable security and compliance policies while preserving day-one access to new AWS features.

🚀 Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. You can create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3 instance types, and deploy production-ready graph workloads with high availability and automated backups. Neptune supports both Property Graph (Gremlin and openCypher) and RDF (SPARQL) models and offers Neptune Global Database for multi-region replication. Get started via the Console, CLI, or CloudFormation.

🔒 AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service helps cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manual rule configuration and management. Customers can use Firewall Manager to create and maintain AWS WAF security policies and apply defense-in-depth controls across AWS security services and accounts.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are now available in the Europe (Spain) region. They provide up to 384 vCPUs, 768 GiB of memory and 22.8 TB of NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3× greater memory bandwidth versus prior C6id instances. C8id also delivers up to 46% better I/O performance for database workloads and up to 30% faster query results for I/O-intensive analytics, and supports Instance Bandwidth Configuration to flexibly allocate 25% between network and EBS bandwidth. These instances are suited for compute- and I/O-intensive workloads and are available via Savings Plans, On‑Demand, and Spot purchases.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 C8gd and M8gd instances, adding C8gd in South America (São Paulo) and M8gd in Europe (Ireland). Powered by AWS Graviton4, these instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based variants and offer up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD block storage. They provide up to 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, come in 12 sizes, and include EFA support on the largest sizes. Customers can also adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting to better optimize workload throughput.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 R7gd instances available in the South America (São Paulo) Region, offering up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD block storage. R7gd instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, paired with DDR5 memory and built on the AWS Nitro System, targeting memory‑intensive workloads such as open‑source databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. They provide high‑speed, low‑latency ephemeral storage ideal for scratch space, temporary files, and caching.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has introduced High Memory U7i EC2 instances in new regions, offering a u7i-8tb.112xlarge (8TiB) in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and a u7i-12tb.224xlarge (12TiB) in Europe (Spain). Powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory, the instances provide 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively, plus up to 100 Gbps for EBS and network and ENA Express. They target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle and SQL Server.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now offers on‑demand automated analysis in AWS GovCloud (US‑East) and AWS GovCloud (US‑West), extending ML-driven database diagnostics to government regions. The feature analyzes metrics and queries, detects anomalies against normal baselines, and provides targeted remediation steps to cut mean‑time‑to‑diagnosis from hours to minutes. To use it, enable Advanced mode for Aurora and Amazon RDS via the RDS console, AWS APIs, SDKs, or CloudFormation.

🛡️ Cloudflare’s AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing discovery, detection, and mitigation tailored for AI-powered web endpoints. The release introduces custom topics detection and enhanced prompt extraction to spot business-specific sensitive content across varied JSON payloads. Cloudflare is making AI endpoint discovery free for all plans and couples detections with the WAF rule engine so teams can block, log, or return custom responses at the edge. Integrations with IBM Cloud and Wiz extend procurement and unified posture visibility for customers.

🤖 Amazon Connect introduces a preview AI assistant that enables contact center managers to ask operational questions in natural language and receive answers in seconds. The assistant supports queries across 150+ Connect metrics with historical context, eliminating hours of manual data gathering. It can also diagnose issues—such as queues at risk of missing service levels—and recommend targeted recovery actions. Preview access is limited; customers must request access through their AWS account team.

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, they deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than C7i models. C8i-flex addresses common compute workloads (large–16xlarge), while C8i targets memory-intensive needs with 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge.

🌐 AWS has made Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver generally available, delivering an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver that provides secure, reliable DNS resolution for authorized clients worldwide. The service is available across 30 AWS Regions and supports both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS query traffic. It offers DNS query filtering to block malicious, NSFW, and advanced DNS threats like DNS tunneling and DGAs, includes centralized query logging, and now adds protection against Dictionary DGA threats. New customers can explore a 30-day free trial.

🔔 Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions, offering the full set of features and tiers to implement secure sign-in and access control. The launch enables authentication for human users, AI agents, and microservices with regional endpoints to reduce latency and improve resilience. Customers can review AWS documentation for region listings, developer guidance, product details, and pricing.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Web Services has made EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Spain). These instances deliver up to 2.3x inference performance versus G6e and support up to eight GPUs (96 GB each), 192 vCPUs, and 1,600 Gbps of networking for demanding LLM, multimodal, and spatial computing workloads. G7e also supports NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and GPUDirect RDMA with EFA for accelerated multi-GPU and multi-node performance and can be purchased as On-Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans. Provisioning is available through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.

🔍 Cloudflare today announced the beta of its Web and API Vulnerability Scanner, initially focused on detecting Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) in APIs. The scanner integrates with API Shield, leveraging passive schema learning and API discovery to construct stateful, credentialed tests without extensive setup. It builds automatic scan plans from OpenAPI specs, augments missing or ambiguous schema data using Workers AI, and can create owner and attacker request chains to detect logic flaws. Credential handling uses HashiCorp Vault Transit to encrypt secrets and Temporal for orchestration.

🛡️ Microsoft today unveiled Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite, generally available May 1, 2026, to help organizations observe, secure, and govern agentic AI at scale. Agent 365 provides a unified control plane with an agent registry, behavior and performance observability, and integrated risk signals across Microsoft Defender, Entra, and Purview. The offering extends identity and access controls with Agent ID, conditional access, and identity governance, while Purview features such as Inline DLP for Copilot Studio prompts, information protection, and data lifecycle management help prevent sensitive data exposure. Pricing starts at $15 per user per month for Agent 365 and $99 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E7.

🔒 Falcon for XIoT now extends asset protection to medical devices and clinical systems, adding native visibility for protocols such as DICOM and HL7. The cloud-native Falcon sensor, available in beta, monitors device behavior and protocol communications to detect anomalies and block malicious actions before they affect patient care. It integrates device telemetry, AI-driven analytics, and CrowdStrike Exposure Management so security teams can discover legacy or unsupported assets, prioritize high-risk devices, and respond within existing SOC workflows. Integration with Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR streamlines investigation and triage across IT and XIoT assets.

🔒OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an AI-powered security agent that finds, validates, and proposes fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers via the Codex web and will be free for the next month. During its beta, the agent scanned more than 1.2 million commits, identifying 792 critical and 10,561 high-severity findings across multiple open-source projects. OpenAI says the offering combines frontier-model reasoning with automated validation to reduce false positives and deliver actionable fixes.