All news with #product launch tag

⚡ Amazon EC2 C8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Malaysia). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, they deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3 and accelerate I/O-intensive database and real-time analytics workloads. Built on the AWS Nitro System, C8gd offers 12 sizes, up to 50 Gbps network and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, with configurable bandwidth weighting (+25%) and EFA on select large sizes.

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Mexico (Central). The fully managed, native JSON document database supports mission‑critical MongoDB workloads and can scale to millions of requests per second with up to 15 low‑latency read replicas and automatic storage up to 128 TiB. With Serverless, capacity scales automatically in fine increments and AWS cites up to 90% cost savings versus peak provisioning. Amazon DocumentDB also integrates with AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda and AWS Backup, and clusters can be created via the Console, CLI or SDK.

🛡️ Google has launched a new AI Vulnerability Reward Program to incentivize security researchers to find and report flaws in its AI systems. The program targets high-impact vulnerabilities across flagship offerings including Google Search, Gemini Apps, and Google Workspace core apps, and also covers AI Studio, Jules, and other AI integrations. Rewards scale with severity and novelty—up to $30,000 for exceptional reports and up to $20,000 for standard flagship security flaws. Additional bounties include $15,000 for sensitive data exfiltration and smaller awards for phishing enablement, model theft, and access control issues.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 Im4gn instances in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Built on the AWS Nitro System and powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, Im4gn provides up to 30 TB of 2nd Generation Nitro SSD instance storage and up to 100 Gbps networking. These instances are optimized for I/O-intensive workloads—relational and NoSQL databases, search engines, and data analytics—and support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for high inter-node communication. Users can provision Im4gn via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

🤖 ChatGPT Pulse is being prepared for the web after a mobile rollout that began on September 25, but OpenAI currently restricts the feature to its $200 Pro subscription. Pulse provides personalized daily updates presented as visual cards, drawing on your chats, feedback and connected apps such as calendars. OpenAI says it will learn from early usage before expanding availability and has given no firm timeline for Plus or free-tier rollout.

🧭 OpenAI is testing a visual Agent Builder that lets users assemble ChatGPT-powered agents by dropping and connecting node blocks in a flowchart. Templates like Customer service, Data enrichment, and Document comparison provide editable starting points, while users can also create flows from scratch. Agents are configurable with model choice, custom prompts, reasoning effort, and output format (text or JSON), and they can call tools and external services. Reported screenshots show support for MPC connectors such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and Dropbox; OpenAI plans to share more details at DevDay.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of C8i and C8i-flex compute-optimized EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. The new families deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher CPU performance compared with C7i. AWS cites up to 60% faster performance for NGINX, ~40% for deep-learning recommendation models, and ~35% for Memcached. C8i-flex covers common sizes (large–16xlarge) for cost-efficient use; C8i provides 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge. Instances are initially available in N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, and Spain and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🔐 Google Cloud’s Vertex AI now supports secure self-deployment of proprietary third-party models directly into customer VPCs via the Model Garden. Customers can discover, license, and deploy closed-source and restricted-license models from partners such as AI21 Labs, Mistral AI, Qodo and others, with one-click provisioning and managed inference. Deployments adhere to VPC-SC controls, selectable regions, autoscaling, and pay-as-you-go billing. This central catalog brings Google, open, and partner models together for enterprise-grade control and compliance.

🚀 AWS has announced the general availability of new Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex compute-optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. AWS cites up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance compared with C7i families, with specific gains as high as 60% for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. C8i-flex targets common sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that don’t fully use all vCPUs, while C8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest scale. These instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🚀 OpenAI has introduced a new opt-in program, Codex Alpha, offering developers early access to updated Codex models and features ahead of DevDay 2025. The rollout currently exposes several gpt-5 variants (gpt-5-codex low/medium/high, gpt-5 minimal, and gpt-5 low/medium/high) tailored for coding and varied reasoning depths. The author could opt in but did not yet gain access to newer models; broader availability is expected at the October 6 event. Codex operates in Terminal, IDE, and web environments to assist with full application development rather than only snippets.

🤖 Opera has unveiled Neon, a premium AI-first browser that delegates browsing tasks to integrated agents, from opening tabs and conducting research to comparing prices and assessing security. Early access is available for Windows and macOS at an introductory price of $59.90 for nine months; Opera says the service will cost $19.90 per month after the offer. Opera positions Neon alongside other agentic browsers such as Perplexity Comet and Microsoft Edge's Copilot mode.

🔐 Passwork 7 is an on‑premises unified platform that consolidates password and secrets management with a redesigned interface and reworked core workflows to improve usability and security. The update introduces hierarchical vaults, custom vault types, role‑based access, and comprehensive logging, plus API, Python connector, CLI and Docker support for DevOps automation. Built on a zero‑knowledge AES‑256 model with MongoDB storage and ISO 27001 certification, it targets organizations needing centralized, compliant credential control.

🗺️ Amazon CloudWatch now provides an out-of-the-box Application Map that automatically discovers, groups, and visualizes services and dependencies across AWS accounts and regions. SRE and DevOps teams can apply dynamic grouping by teams, business units, or criticality to align views with operational responsibilities and accelerate troubleshooting. The map integrates with a contextual troubleshooting drawer that surfaces metrics, SLOs, health indicators, changes, and top observations, and users can pivot to application-specific dashboards for deeper investigation. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional cost.

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center is now deployable in 36 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok) and Mexico Central (Querétaro). The service provides centralized workforce access, single sign-on, and integration with existing identity sources to streamline account and application access across AWS. It powers personalized experiences in AWS applications such as Amazon Q and supports user-aware access auditing for services like Amazon Redshift. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these Regions.

🔎 Ask Brave unifies traditional search and AI chat into a single, privacy-focused interface accessible at search.brave.com/ask. The free feature combines search results with AI-generated responses and supports follow-up interaction in a chat-style format. Users can invoke it with a trailing “??”, the Ask button, or the Ask tab; it runs in standard or deep research modes.

🚀 Cloudflare’s Birthday Week 2025 summarized a broad set of product, policy, and community initiatives designed to strengthen the open Internet and prepare for AI-era and quantum threats. Highlights included a goal to hire 1,111 interns in 2026, new startup hubs, and expanded free developer access for students and non‑profits, plus sponsorships of open-source projects like Ladybird and Omarchy. Technical announcements ranged from post‑quantum upgrades and a Rust-based core proxy to R2 SQL, the Cloudflare Data Platform, Workers performance and security hardening, and new AI safety and bot-management tools.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to build, experiment with, and scale generative AI applications using a broad selection of foundation models (FMs) and integrated developer tools. The managed service provides capabilities to deploy and operate agents and production workloads with built-in controls for security and operational management. Customers in the region can begin using Bedrock today and should consult the documentation for supported models, APIs, and recommended practices.

🚀 Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock is available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region, enabling customers to build and scale generative AI applications with local infrastructure. The managed service connects organizations to a variety of foundation models (FMs) and provides tools to deploy and operate agents, reducing time-to-production. Local availability can lower latency, support regional compliance needs, and help move projects from experimentation to real-world deployment.

🚀 Amazon has launched Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions, enabling local customers to build and scale generative AI applications using a range of foundation models and developer tools. The managed service supports deploying agents and productionizing models to shorten the path from experimentation to real-world deployment. Customers can expect improved latency, regional data residency options, and integration with AWS operational and security services.

📍 Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, enabling customers to create and manage analytics graphs locally. Neptune Analytics is a memory-optimized graph engine designed for fast, in-memory processing of large graph datasets, supporting optimized analytic algorithms, low-latency graph queries, and vector search within traversals. It complements Amazon Neptune Database, and you can load data from a Neptune Database, snapshots, or Amazon S3. To get started, create a new Neptune Analytics graph via the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI; see the Neptune pricing page for region and cost details.