All news with #product launch tag

🛠️ Announcing Capability Insights, an open-source, self-hosted dashboard that deploys regional AWS capabilities data into your Amazon VPC. The solution auto-refreshes every 24 hours with data across Regions, including services, features, API operations, and CloudFormation resource types. Its Workload Analysis scans CloudTrail and CloudFormation to narrow 200+ services to the ones your account actually uses, aiding multi-Region planning while keeping all data within your VPC for compliance and data residency needs.

🔌 AWS introduces AWS Interconnect - last mile, a fully managed connectivity service that eases connections from branch offices, data centers, and remote sites to AWS. Now in a gated preview with AT&T in the US, the offering lets customers select region, bandwidth, Direct Connect Gateway ID and partner subscriber ID to initiate provisioning. AWS issues an activation key to complete AT&T provisioning while automating BGP, VLAN, and ASN setup, providing pre-provisioned capacity, high availability, and SLA-backed zero-downtime maintenance.

🛡️ OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.6 Sol, calling it its "most capable model yet for cybersecurity," but initial access is restricted to a small set of vetted partners at the request of the US government. The preview, announced on June 26, introduces three tiers—Sol, Terra and Luna—and is available via API and Codex to selected partners while OpenAI coordinates with the government on a cyber executive order framework. OpenAI says Sol excels at long-horizon tasks like vulnerability research, includes enhanced safeguards and real-time classifiers, and currently does not autonomously produce full exploits.

🛡️ OpenAI released three GPT-5.6 variants—Sol, Terra, and Luna—as a limited preview to select companies while engaging with the U.S. government. Sol is the flagship and most capable for cybersecurity work, Terra balances efficiency and power, and Luna is optimized for speed and cost. OpenAI emphasized strengthened safety controls, warned of potential legitimate-request blocks during preview, and plans a wider release in the coming weeks.

🚀Starting today, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with up to 3.7 GHz, C7a delivers up to 50% higher performance than C6a and adds new capabilities like AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16. These instances use DDR5 memory for 2.25x more memory bandwidth, come in 12 sizes including bare-metal, and support up to 128 EBS attachments. C7a instances run on the AWS Nitro System and are available via On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8a general-purpose instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs with up to 4.5 GHz, M8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance than M7a. Instances provide 45% more memory bandwidth, SAP certification, 12 sizes including 2 bare metal, and are suitable for high-throughput workloads.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in the Europe (Paris) Region (eu-west-3). This fully managed ingestion tier enables no-code filtering, transformation, redaction, and routing of data into Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections, automatically provisioning and scaling resources to match workload demands. The service is now generally available in 17 AWS regions worldwide, expanding customers' options for regional data ingestion and processing.

🔒 The AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift is now generally available, enabling Swift developers to build secure, scalable IoT applications natively on Apple platforms (macOS, iOS, tvOS) and Linux. The SDK fills a prior gap in native Swift support for AWS IoT services and provides production-ready APIs for teams managing device fleets and cross-platform Apple ecosystem solutions. It integrates service clients for AWS IoT Device Shadow, Jobs, and Fleet Provisioning and includes built-in TLS 1.3 support on Apple platforms. Install via Swift Package Manager and consult the documentation and GitHub samples to get started.

🚀 Amazon EC2 G6e instances are now generally available for SageMaker notebook instances, offering up to 8 NVIDIA L40s GPUs and third-generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e delivers up to 2.5x better performance versus G5 and supports interactive model testing and training, including generative AI fine-tuning and LLMs up to 13B parameters. G6e is available in multiple US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions.

🤖 Anthropic has introduced Claude Tag, a channel-based assistant starting with Slack, now available in beta to AWS customers who purchase Claude Enterprise via AWS Marketplace. Teams can grant Claude scoped access to selected channels, connect it to tools, data, and codebases, and use multiplayer tagging to delegate tasks. Claude Tag maintains channel context, plans future tasks, and employs per-channel identities, spend controls, and ambient mode off by default for governance. The AWS Marketplace experience mirrors first-party Claude Enterprise with consumption-based pricing, org-wide budget visibility, and per-channel limits.

🚀 Amazon EC2 G7e instances deliver up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, 96 GB per GPU, 5th Gen Intel Xeon CPUs, up to 192 vCPUs and 1600 Gbps EFA networking. They support NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and GPUDirect RDMA with EFAv4 for reduced latency in multi-node and multi-GPU workloads. G7e instances target LLMs, agentic and multimodal generative AI, spatial computing, and workloads needing combined graphics and AI acceleration. G7e is now available for SageMaker Studio notebooks in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio) and US West (Oregon).

🧩 Google Cloud's Starter Tier for Google AI Studio provisions a managed, limited stack (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Firebase Auth) so individual Google Accounts can publish prototypes without a billing account. The environment is fully managed by Google, with region, APIs, and security policies preselected. It supports two active apps, a simplified console, and automatic agent-driven provisioning and code generation. Quotas, locked APIs, ephemeral storage, and upgrade paths to paid projects are explained.

⚙️ Today Cloudflare announced Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents, enabling agents to run wrangler deploy --temporary to deploy Workers instantly without human sign-up. Temporary deployments remain live for 60 minutes and can be claimed by a user to become permanent; unclaimed accounts expire automatically. The feature integrates with Wrangler, which now informs agents about the --temporary flag, letting agent-driven development iterate quickly through deploy, verify, and redeploy cycles.

📢 AWS today announced general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing infrastructure closer to end users. The Hanoi Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 including One Zone-IA, and Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and multiple volume types. Customers can enable the zone (ap-southeast-1-han-1a) via AWS Global View or the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API.

🚀 Today AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 delivers up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance versus G6 and supports AI inference, real-time cinematic graphics, game streaming, and large-scale data analytics. Instances offer up to 8 GPUs with 32 GB each, custom Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, and up to 700 Gbps EFA; available now in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon) as On-Demand, Savings Plans, or Spot.

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters. You can reserve UltraServers via EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and associate them with a PCS compute node group using an EC2 launch template, while PCS configures Slurm topology automatically. P6e-GB200 offers up to 72 GPUs, 360 petaflops FP8 (no sparsity), and 13.4 TB HBM3e; P6e-GB300 delivers 1.5x GPU memory and FP4 compute versus the GB200. PCS remains a managed Slurm-based service that simplifies building elastic HPC environments with integrated compute, storage, networking, visualization, managed updates, and observability.

🔬 OpenAI appears to be testing a new subscription called "ChatGPT for Science" spotted on the web build, aimed at scientific use cases. It may join existing offerings—Personal, Teams, and Business—and could be restricted to verified institutes or universities. OpenAI has previously developed specialized models like GPT-Rosalind for enterprise life sciences, suggesting advanced capabilities and stricter access controls.

🚀 AWS announces the public preview of AWS Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework that provides backend capabilities without requiring developers to learn infrastructure tools. It runs a fully functional local environment with Postgres, authentication, and real-time messaging with no AWS account required, and the same code can be deployed to production AWS services with zero changes. Developers can also drop into AWS CDK at any time for direct resource configuration, and AWS Blocks supports SPA and SSR frameworks at preview.

🟢 AWS introduces the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization that validates Services Partners with expertise in transforming contact centers and embedding AI across customer interactions. The competency covers two categories: Contact Center Transformation and AI-Powered Customer Experience, recognizing partners who migrate legacy contact centers and operationalize AI at scale on Amazon Connect. This competency replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027.

🛒 AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, enabling AWS Partners to create and deploy branded catalogs of solutions and services on their own websites or applications in hours. Channel Partners and ISVs can import listings with no code, use AWS Marketplace billing for transactions, and automate deal workflows with private offer templates and CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot. The storefront supports curated catalogs on partners' domains and is available in all AWS Marketplace regions.