All news with #product launch tag

📱 Google Cloud announced the public preview of Developer Device Platform (DDP), a fully managed service offering on-demand access to real physical devices and high-concurrency virtual emulators. DDP provides interactive debugging via Device Streaming and parallel CI/CD testing via Device Run, enabling faster iteration, smarter sharding, and auto-retries. The platform supports integration with coding agents and will integrate with Android Studio and CLI, charging users on a pay-per-minute public preview model.

🆕 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. These instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, plus up to 20% higher performance than R7i. R8i-flex offers common memory-optimized sizes for cost-efficient workloads, while R8i includes 13 sizes, two bare metal options, and a 96xlarge for the largest applications, with SAP certification and 142,100 aSAPS.

🛰️ Cloudflare launches Radar Researcher in beta, an AI-powered assistant that lets users query Radar’s open Internet datasets in plain language and receive interactive charts. The tool combines screenshots, raw API data, and view parameters to generate precise explanations and visualizations. Built on Cloudflare Workers, Agents SDK, and Workers AI, Researcher runs models with fallbacks, exposes tool traces, and uses Code Mode to query the Radar API dynamically.

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced general availability of runtime instances for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling agents to run on customer-managed EC2 instances without manual infrastructure management. The feature complements existing microVM-based runtimes and supports diverse EC2 families including GPU-accelerated, memory-optimized, and compute-optimized types. Runtime instances allow long-running agent sessions up to 14 days and integrate with the AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, and APIs to create capacity providers and attach agents. Availability spans multiple regions and billing includes EC2 costs plus management fees, with documentation and pricing details provided by AWS.

🧭 This summer Google Cloud offers a free, hands-on training path powered by Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) to help developers and IT leaders move autonomous agents to production. The program includes sequential courses and skill badges covering agent fundamentals, multi-agent orchestration, ADK engineering, memory and state management, human-centered design, and operationalization on Google Cloud. Participants can earn credentials, access labs and prototypes, and join an All Things Agentic Hackathon with prizes to demonstrate real-world skills.

🔍 AI Insights in AWS Marketplace explains product pricing directly on listings, showing what pricing units map to, how costs scale with usage, and how multiple pricing dimensions combine. It cites sources drawn from the seller's Marketplace listing and public website so buyers can verify explanations. The feature is live in most listings across commercial AWS Regions and sellers can request edits via the Contact Us link.

🆕 Amazon Web Services announces general availability of native vector search for Amazon DynamoDB. The feature enables indexing and approximate nearest neighbor searches over embeddings with single-digit millisecond latency and 99%+ recall at any scale, including trillions of vectors. You can store embeddings alongside other attributes, choose a model to generate vectors (including Amazon Bedrock models), create vector indexes, and apply attribute filters. DynamoDB vector search preserves serverless benefits—no infrastructure management, zero downtime, and pay-as-you-go—supporting use cases such as agent memory retrieval, semantic search, recommendations, and personalized advertising.

🟦 Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Amazon S3 Vectors is purpose-built vector storage for AI agents, inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. It offers the elasticity, durability, and availability of Amazon S3 with dedicated APIs to store, access, and query vectors without provisioning infrastructure.

📰 Black Hat 2026 features many AI-driven product announcements as vendors move from simple copilots to embedding AI into operational security workflows. Companies are combining automation with governance, exposure management, and recovery to support practical autonomous security in enterprises. Common themes include attack path analysis, integration of external threat intelligence into workflows, and purpose-built AI agents to speed investigations without requiring infrastructure replacement.

🛡️ Black Hat 2026 showcased a wave of AI-integrated security products that go beyond copilots to embed automation into operational workflows. Vendors emphasized attack path analysis, threat intelligence integration, and purpose-built AI agents to accelerate investigations while preserving existing infrastructure. Announcements included vulnerability remediation agents, AI observability, recovery validation, identity exposure intelligence, sovereign AI SOC agents, and expanded autonomous security platforms.

🚀 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock now support 1 million token context windows, allowing full-codebase analysis, long-form document processing, and complete multi-turn histories in a single request. Models provide broader-context reasoning and more coherent outputs without chunking. Prompt caching with explicit cache breakpoints reduces repeated-context billing by 90%, and pricing aligns with OpenAI first-party rates. Availability varies by model across US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon) regions, accessible via the Bedrock Console or the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint.

🧭 Data Commons on Spanner Graph general availability and a preview of the Data Commons Platform simplify linking private enterprise data with Google's extensive public knowledge graphs. The platform consolidates standardized public datasets from over 100 providers into a unified graph with >400 billion observations and leverages Spanner Graph for native GQL support, incremental updates, and consistent snapshots. Organizations can deploy private instances to federate private and public knowledge graphs while retaining data isolation and enabling natural language query workflows.

🖥️ Today Cloudflare announced an early preview of @cloudflare/computer, a runtime that gives each agent a virtual "computer" — a primed filesystem and selectable execution environments. The package uses Durable Objects and isolates as the primary, horizontally scalable compute primitive while optionally attaching containers for heavier tasks. It provides a durable filesystem, tools (read, write, edit, ls, exec), and multiple execution backends, aiming to minimize container usage and improve efficiency for agentic systems.

🧾 Cloudflare announced a new Billable Usage API for self-serve accounts that returns usage and cost by product and charge period in a machine-consumable format. The single endpoint covers usage-based products like Workers, R2, D1, Workers AI, Vectorize, Images, and Stream, with daily updates today and more real-time data planned. The response aligns with the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) naming and integrates natively with Vantage for cost reporting, budgets, and alerts.

🧭 OpenAI has announced Astra, an unreleased model designed for long-running, complex tasks after an internal version produced ten notable advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The research highlights breakthroughs across areas like geometry, coding theory, complexity, and lattice cryptography, with formalized proofs checked via Lean. OpenAI may release Astra as GPT-5.7, GPT-6, or another name, and could limit stronger variants under stricter policies.

🛰️ Cloudflare has added isolation and access controls to its global Media over QUIC (MoQ) network by introducing a provisioning API that creates isolated relays (scopes) and issues publish/subscribe tokens. The relays are available across Cloudflare’s network within seconds with no servers to deploy and support draft-14 and draft-16 MoQ transport features; the beta is free to use. Tokens are scoped, revocable, and manageable via API or dashboard, and Cloudflare is documenting the control-plane model as an IETF Internet-Draft for broader interoperability.

🚀 xAI's Grok 4.3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US‑West), adding another model provider option for government and regulated workloads. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model with configurable reasoning effort and strong tool-use and instruction-following capabilities. It runs on the new Mantle inference engine to provide price-performance benefits, tool calling, structured output, and response streaming. The model is suited for enterprise scenarios like customer support, legal research, and financial Q&A.

🔒 The Gemma 4 family from Google DeepMind is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). The offering includes three variants—Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, and Gemma 4 E2B—covering dense and MoE architectures with support for multimodal inputs, native function calling, and a 256K-token context window on the 31B variant. Bedrock enhancements target price performance, tool calling, structured output, reasoning, and streaming responses to support reliable generative AI workloads.

🔒 Check Point announces the industry’s first AI Network Firewall, extending its AI Defense Plane to the enterprise network. The firewall inspects prompts, file uploads, model calls, and agent actions in real time to detect intent, prevent data exfiltration, and block prompt injection. It discovers and governs sanctioned and shadow AI tools and agents while protecting AI applications across hybrid environments.

🔗 AWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloud for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling customers to provision resilient, scalable private connections between AWS and OCI. The service simplifies multicloud networking that previously required complex DIY solutions. OCI entered public preview in May and now joins Google Cloud as a supported provider; Microsoft Azure support is expected later in 2026. The feature is available in the us-east-1 (N. Virginia) region and can be created via Console, CLI, or API.