All news with #product launch tag

🔁 Microsoft announces Azure NetApp Files Elastic zone‑redundant storage (ANF Elastic ZRS), a managed multi‑AZ file service that synchronously replicates data across three or more availability zones to deliver high availability and resiliency. The service provides automatic, service‑managed failover while preserving the same mount target and service endpoint to minimize application disruption and ensure zero data loss. ANF Elastic ZRS supports NFS and SMB, ONTAP data management features (snapshots, clones, backup), metadata performance optimizations, and cost‑efficient single‑volume multi‑AZ availability.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. These instances deliver up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus the sixth-generation C6id, M6id, and R6id families, and scale to 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB RAM, and 22.8 TB NVMe SSD storage. They also introduce Instance Bandwidth Configuration for a 25% flexible allocation between network and EBS bandwidth to better match workload needs. Availability is currently in select US regions and Frankfurt for R8id; purchase options include On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🔎 Orchid Security has introduced an continuous identity observability platform that discovers, analyzes, and governs identity usage inside enterprise applications. The solution instruments applications to reveal embedded credentials, non‑human identities, custom authentication flows, and access paths that bypass IAM controls. It then prioritizes risks, routes findings to control owners, and integrates with IAM, PAM, and GRC workflows to drive remediation and provide continuous audit-ready evidence.

🆕 AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling centralized control of fine-grained data access and secure data sharing within and beyond organizations. The service integrates with the AWS Glue Data Catalog so users can discover and govern datasets. Supported analytics and ML consumers include Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon Athena.

🔔 Google Cloud has announced General Availability of Unified Maintenance, a centralized dashboard for tracking planned maintenance across its services. The dashboard aggregates events for Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, AlloyDB, and Looker, providing a single view of upcoming work. It delivers standardized alerts via Cloud Logging, enabling integration with existing monitoring and ticketing systems, and clearly marks events that offer user controls.

🔀 Cloudflare released a Worker template for Vertical Microfrontends, enabling multiple independent Cloudflare Workers to serve a single domain by mapping routes (e.g., /docs, /dash) to distinct teams. The Router Worker leverages service bindings to call specific Workers, rewrites asset paths with HTMLRewriter, and can inject CSS view transitions plus speculation-rule preloads to create seamless, preloaded navigation. Teams keep full stack autonomy while users experience a unified application.

🔒 Fortinet's Accelerate 2026 returns to Las Vegas March 9–13, bringing customers, partners, and industry leaders together at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for keynotes, technical sessions, and an expansive Tech Expo. The event emphasizes an integrated platform approach to secure networking, unified SASE, cloud and OT protection, and AI-enhanced detection and automation. Customer-led sessions from organizations such as Lowe’s, TJX, and ExxonMobil will share practical implementations, while attendees can pursue certifications, hands-on workshops, and the Fortinet Ultimate Fabric Challenge to translate strategy into operational outcomes.

🚀 Google.Cloud.VertexAI.Extensions brings Microsoft.Extensions.AI abstractions to .NET developers, enabling access to Google Gemini models on Vertex AI via a unified API. The preview package implements core interfaces — IChatClient, IEmbeddingGenerator, and an experimental IImageGenerator — and supports chat, streaming responses, embeddings, and image generation samples. It targets developers who want provider-agnostic integration and invites feedback while in pre-release.

🚀 The BigQuery AI Hackathon concluded on September 22, 2025, with 5,350 entrants and 277 submissions demonstrating practical uses of BigQuery's generative AI, vector search, and multimodal tools. Winners such as OncOmix AI, SpeakAura AI, and TriLink showcased solutions for precision oncology, speech therapy, and automated ticket triage. BigQuery AI also added SQL-first capabilities including AI.IF with Preview sublinear scaling, AI.CLASSIFY, AI.SEARCH, AI.SCORE, and AI.EMBED to simplify embedding, search, classification, and multimodal workflows while improving performance.

🔁 Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling replication of streaming data across Amazon MSK clusters with a few clicks. The managed feature provides automatic asynchronous replication, scales underlying resources, and replicates Kafka metadata including topic configurations, ACLs, and consumer group offsets. You can orchestrate replication from the console or CLI and use cross‑region failover to resume processing during regional disruptions.

🤖 Maia 200 is Microsoft’s new first‑party AI inference accelerator, fabricated on TSMC’s 3nm process and optimized for low‑precision tensor compute. It combines native FP8/FP4 tensor cores with 216GB of HBM3e at 7 TB/s, 272MB on‑chip SRAM and specialized data‑movement engines to raise token throughput and utilization. Microsoft positions Maia 200 as delivering over 10 petaFLOPS (FP4), about 30% better performance‑per‑dollar versus its prior fleet, and higher FP8 performance than competing hyperscaler accelerators. Deployed in US Central with Azure integration and an SDK preview, Maia 200 targets inference for services such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and OpenAI GPT‑5.2.

🔒 Amazon Managed Grafana is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, allowing government customers and regulated industries to securely visualize and analyze operational telemetry at scale. The fully managed service, based on open-source Grafana, supports all features in GovCloud except Enterprise plugins. To get started, customers can create workspaces via the AWS Console and consult the Amazon Managed Grafana user guide for region-specific guidance.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances, powered by the latest Mac Studio hardware. These next‑generation Mac instances deliver up to 25% better application build performance versus Amazon EC2 M1 Ultra Mac and target demanding build and test workloads for Apple platforms. They run on Apple M4 Max silicon (16‑core CPU, 40‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine, 128 GB unified memory), use the AWS Nitro System, and offer up to 10 Gbps network and 8 Gbps EBS bandwidth; availability begins in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in the Europe (London) region, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. They deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus previous-generation Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance compared with C7i. AWS cites workload-specific gains — up to 60% faster NGINX, 40% faster AI recommendation models, and 35% faster Memcached — and offers 13 sizes including two bare metal options and a new 96xlarge. Customers can purchase via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot instances.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has added EC2 C8i and C8i‑flex instances to the Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. These instances are built on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x greater memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. AWS cites up to 20% higher overall performance versus C7i families and workload-specific gains—up to 60% for NGINX, 40% for deep-learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. C8i‑flex targets common compute sizes (large to 16xlarge) while C8i targets memory-intensive use cases with 13 sizes including 96xlarge and bare-metal; customers can buy On-Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans.

🚀 Amazon Neptune Analytics is now generally available in additional AWS regions, including US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul, Osaka, Hong Kong), Europe (Paris, Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). The serverless Amazon Neptune graph database scales automatically and supports advanced graph analytics and fully managed GraphRAG capabilities. Neptune models data as a graph to capture context that improves accuracy and explainability for AI applications, and integrates with Amazon Bedrock, Strands AI Agents SDK, and common agentic memory tools. Create and manage Neptune Analytics graphs via the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI; refer to the Neptune pricing page and AWS Region Table for pricing and availability.

🔌 AlloyDB now offers managed connection pooling for PostgreSQL as a generally available capability, reducing connection overhead and improving scalability. The service-managed pooler listens on port 6432 and reuses backend connections to cut latency and resource churn, while Google Cloud handles setup, configuration, and maintenance. Choose Transaction or Session pooling based on compatibility needs and configure sizes via Console, gcloud, or API. Customers report support for 3x more clients and up to 5x higher transactional throughput.

🚀 This post describes two validated deployment recipes for serving large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models on Google Cloud's A4X machines using NVIDIA Dynamo. The recipes provide throughput- and latency-optimized configurations that exploit the 72‑GPU GB200 NVL72 rack fabric, WideEP/DeepEP parallelism, global KV cache, and GKE-aware rack-level scheduling. Performance validation reports >6K tokens/sec/GPU for the throughput recipe and a 10ms median inter-token latency for the latency-optimized recipe.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core now include Microsoft Office, Visio, and Project 2024 applications in the managed applications catalog. The release covers Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024, Office LTSC Standard 2024, Visio LTSC Professional and Standard 2024, and Project Professional and Standard 2024. Administrators can add these applications to eligible new or existing WorkSpaces using the existing Manage application workflow to standardize a modern, secure productivity desktop. Applications are available in all Regions that support WorkSpaces Personal and Core and will incur per-application charges.

🚀 AWS has made EBS-optimized EC2 C8gb, M8gb, and R8gb instances in 48xlarge sizes generally available, with C8gb and R8gb also offered as metal-48xl. Powered by Graviton4, the new sizes deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3 and offer up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and 1,440,000 IOPS. They support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and up to 400 Gbps networking to improve latency and cluster performance for tightly coupled and high-throughput workloads. New sizes are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).