All news with #product launch tag

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 G7e instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances deliver up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e, support up to eight GPUs with 96 GB per GPU, and provide up to 192 vCPUs and 1600 Gbps networking. They include NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and GPUDirect RDMA with EFA in EC2 UltraClusters, and are available as On-Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans.

☁️ Google Cloud has made the native endpoint for Cassandra Query Language (CQL) generally available on Spanner, allowing Apache Cassandra applications to use familiar CQL with minimal code changes. Customers can migrate with as little as a one-line change and leverage Spanner’s strong consistency, virtually unlimited scale, geo-partitioning, and enterprise SLAs. The release pairs the CQL compatibility layer with bulk and live migration tools so teams can consolidate operations onto a managed, multi-model platform.

🔁 BigQuery now provides autonomous embedding generation that automatically maintains an embedding column derived from a source column, eliminating manual embedding pipelines and synchronization burdens. The managed column is defined via familiar SQL (GENERATED ALWAYS AS AI.EMBED) and can be stored asynchronously. It integrates with VECTOR_SEARCH and a new AI.SEARCH function, and supports secure calls to Vertex AI models with connection-based permissions. The feature is available in preview.

🚀 Starting in February 2026, Amazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, powered by AWS-custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). These chips deliver up to 15% better performance than comparable x86 Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance versus M6i, targeting sustained CPU-intensive workloads like gaming servers, CPU-based ML, and video streaming. M7i offers larger sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare-metal options (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) that include built-in Intel accelerators for data streaming, in-memory analytics, and cryptographic offload.

🚀 Google announced Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgraded foundation model in the Gemini 3 series that emphasizes deeper reasoning and complex problem solving. The model is available in preview in Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, and developers can access it through Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Android Studio, Google Antigravity, and the Gemini CLI. Early customers report meaningful gains in speed, efficiency, and accuracy across code, 3D transformations, and product design workflows.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now offers Mistral AI Devstral 2 123B, an open-weight 123B-parameter LLM optimized for agentic software engineering workflows. The model focuses on code generation, automation, and reliable multi-step reasoning, supporting long-context comprehension for multi-turn coding tasks. Bedrock exposes Devstral 2 via a single, fully managed API so customers do not need to provision infrastructure or host models. It is intended for production coding assistants, automated code review, and complex software development agents and is available in select AWS Regions.

🚀Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland) regions. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors at up to 4.5 GHz, C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a. The family offers 33% more memory bandwidth, up to 57% faster GroovyJVM performance, and 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, making it well suited for latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports Claude Sonnet 4.6, Anthropic's newest model delivering frontier performance across coding, agentic workflows, and professional knowledge work. Sonnet 4.6 enables faster, high-quality task completion and claims near-human reliability for browser-based automation, at a lower cost than Opus 4.6. Enterprises can migrate from Sonnet 4.5 with minimal prompt changes and deploy it across supported Bedrock regions for search, chat, agents, and domain-specific applications.

🚀Amazon Web Services announced the new Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, a next-generation offering optimized for high performance computing and powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors. Hpc8a delivers up to 40% higher compute performance, up to 25% better price performance, and up to 42% higher memory bandwidth versus Hpc7a, with 192 cores, 768 GiB RAM and 300 Gbps EFA networking. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances target tightly coupled, latency-sensitive HPC workloads and are available today in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Stockholm).

🚀 Amazon EC2 M7i instances powered by AWS-custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids) are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. These AWS‑exclusive processors deliver up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86 Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance compared to M6i. M7i offers sizes up to 48xlarge plus bare-metal options (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) with built-in Intel accelerators — suitable for gaming servers, CPU-based ML, and high-throughput video streaming.

🔐 Bitwarden has introduced Cupid Vault, a free feature that lets users create a two-person shared Organization to securely share login credentials with a trusted email address. Owners assign credentials to the second member, can verify enrollments using a fingerprint phrase to prevent man‑in‑the‑middle attacks, and can revoke access at any time; the Organization vault is isolated from personal vaults. Cupid Vault is limited to two users and two collections and is distinct from Bitwarden's paid Family, Teams, and Enterprise plans that provide broader sharing and role-based controls.

🚀Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory-optimized VMs powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. X8i delivers up to 43% higher performance, up to 1.5x more memory capacity (to 6 TB) and 3.3x greater memory bandwidth versus the prior X2i generation, targeting SAP HANA, large databases, analytics and EDA. The family includes 14 sizes, two bare-metal options, and is available in select US and EU regions; purchase options include On-Demand, Savings Plans and Spot.

⚡AWS announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC (Turin) processors delivering up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. M8azn offers up to 2x compute versus M5zn and up to 24% higher performance than M8a, with increased memory bandwidth, a larger L3 cache, and higher networking and EBS throughput. Available in nine sizes (2–96 vCPU) including two bare-metal options, these Nitro-based instances target latency-sensitive workloads such as HFT, real-time analytics, HPC, gaming, and simulation. Regions at launch include N. Virginia, Oregon, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, and they are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

📝 Cloudflare has introduced Markdown for Agents, an edge feature that converts HTML to Markdown in real time when a client requests text/markdown via content negotiation. The service returns a markdown body, a content-type of text/markdown, and an x-markdown-tokens header estimating token count to help with chunking and context-window planning. Converted responses also include a Content-Signal header (ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes) to indicate permitted downstream uses. The feature is available in Beta at no additional cost for Pro, Business, Enterprise and SSL for SaaS customers.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Paris), Canada (Central), and US West (N. California). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver improved price-performance (up to 15%), and up to 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations. Compared to C7i families, AWS reports up to 20% higher performance and larger gains for select workloads such as NGINX, AI recommendation models, and Memcached. C8i-flex targets common right-sized workloads from large to 16xlarge, while C8i targets memory-intensive and very large instance needs including a new 96xlarge and bare metal sizes. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot pricing via the AWS Management Console.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Middle East (UAE) regions. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i provides large sizes including a new 96xlarge and SAP certification, while R8i-flex offers common memory-optimized Flex sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that don’t fully use compute. To begin, sign in to the AWS Management Console or review the AWS News blog for details.

📍Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON document database that automatically scales storage up to 128TiB and supports millions of requests per second. It can be scaled out to 15 low-latency read replicas in minutes with no application downtime and integrates with services such as AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda, and Backup. Clusters can be created via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Europe (Zurich) region. The fully managed, JSON-native document database provides automatic storage scaling up to 128TiB and can support millions of requests per second while scaling out to 15 low-latency read replicas with no application downtime. It integrates with AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda and AWS Backup, and clusters can be created via Console, CLI, or SDK. Local availability improves latency and data residency options for Swiss and nearby customers.

🖥️ Microsoft has released Windows 11, version 26H1, but the distribution is limited to new ARM-based devices such as those using Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors and possibly other upcoming ARM chips. This build is a platform-specific release and will not be broadly delivered through Windows Update to existing PCs. Microsoft says organizations should continue to purchase, deploy, and manage devices on broadly released versions like 24H2 and 25H2. The company also reiterated its annual update cadence, with 26H2 expected later in the year.

🚀 Amazon Web Services expanded availability of EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering up to 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB of memory, and 22.8 TB of NVMe SSD storage. These instances deliver up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus the sixth-generation C6id, M6id, and R6id, and provide up to 46% better I/O performance for database workloads. An Instance Bandwidth Configuration lets customers flexibly allocate 25% between network and EBS; C8id and M8id are now in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), with M8id and R8id additionally in Europe (Spain), and the family is purchasable via On‑Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.