All news with #product launch tag

💬 AWS announces that Partner Central agents let partners create sales opportunities via natural language conversation instead of multi-step forms. Released March 16, 2026 and built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the agents ingest meeting notes, proposals, and transcripts (PDF, DOCX, Excel, TXT), extract details, and recommend improvements. Accessible through Amazon Q chat in the AWS Console and programmatically via Model Context Protocol (MCP), they aim to reduce data entry, improve pipeline hygiene, and shorten sales cycles across all commercial AWS Regions.

🤖 The Gemini Live Agent Challenge drew 11,878 participants and 1,536 submissions from 151 countries, inviting developers to build next-generation multimodal AI agents with the Gemini Live API, the Agent Development Kit (ADK), and Google Cloud infrastructure. Entries competed across three categories — Live Agent, Creative Storyteller, and UI Navigator — producing winners like ORION, drone-copilot, and Sankofa. Two category winners presented their projects at Google Cloud Next 2026 and shared insights on stage and in interviews. The post lists all winners and highlights routes for developers to continue building, including GEAR and weekly livestreams.

🔔 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, built on Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio hardware. These instances, powered by the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 10 Gbps network and 8 Gbps EBS bandwidth and include a 28-core CPU, 60-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine, and 256 GB of unified memory. Compared to M4 Max, they provide significant uplifts in CPU, GPU, memory, and Neural Engine capacity. Available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🛠️ AWS announced general availability of the agent builder toolkit Kiro Power for AWS Transform, enabling partners and customers to create customized transformation agents tailored to modernization projects. The toolkit supports the full agent lifecycle—build with Kiro Power, share across teams and partner networks, and register agents with AWS Transform for discovery. It's available in the Kiro Power marketplace and targets Migration and Modernization Competency Partners, ISVs, and customers.

🔔 AWS has added GLM-5.1-FP8 (from Z.ai) and Phi-4-mini-instruct (from Microsoft) to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding foundation model choices for enterprise workloads. GLM-5.1-FP8 targets agentic software engineering and multi-round optimization for repository-level code, debugging, and long-horizon automation. Phi-4-mini-instruct provides compact, low-latency reasoning across 24 languages and supports function calling for edge and latency-sensitive use cases. Customers can deploy these models via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK in a few clicks.

🔊 AWS has added three Qwen speech foundation models—Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice, Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base, and Qwen3-ASR-1.7B—to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The models deliver multilingual text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition capabilities across more than 10 languages and 52 languages/dialects. CustomVoice offers instruction-driven control over timbre, emotion, and prosody while Base enables 3-second rapid voice cloning. SageMaker JumpStart lets customers deploy these models from SageMaker Studio or via the SageMaker Python SDK with a few clicks.

🆕 AWS added FLUX.2-klein-base-4B and Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. FLUX.2 targets real-time image generation and multi-reference editing in a compact architecture that can run on consumer GPUs with about 13GB VRAM. Qwen3-Embedding delivers instruction-aware, multilingual text embeddings across 100+ languages for retrieval, RAG, and semantic search. Customers can deploy these models via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK.

🖥️ Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland), powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors delivering up to 5 GHz single-thread performance. Built on sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances are optimized for EDA workloads and relational databases that need high CPU frequency and large memory. They provide a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, sizes from 2–96 vCPUs with up to 3,072 GiB memory and up to 8 TB local NVMe, and are offered via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Cloud Storage Rapid introduces high-performance object storage for AI and analytics with Rapid Bucket (zonal, GA) and Rapid Cache (accelerated reads for existing buckets). It combines sub-millisecond latency, multi-TB/s throughput, and new semantics like native appends and vectored reads to reduce I/O bottlenecks that stall GPUs/TPUs. Rapid Cache now supports ingest-on-write to eliminate initial cache-miss penalties and improve checkpoint restores, while multi-region buckets preserve a single namespace and avoid manual data movement.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, enabling customers to access Anthropic’s native Claude experience directly through their AWS accounts. The service is operated by Anthropic and processes customer data outside the AWS security boundary, while integrating with existing IAM, consolidated billing, and CloudTrail for visibility. It includes APIs, console access, early beta features, and capabilities such as Claude Managed Agents, web search, code execution, files API, and prompt tools.

🔒 OTT Cybersecurity LLC — the team behind Lyrie.ai — announced acceptance into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program and the public release of the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP). ATP is an open cryptographic standard that enables real-time verification of an AI agent’s identity, authorized scope, attestation status, delegation, and revocation. The protocol is royalty-free, slated for IETF submission, and a reference implementation is published under an MIT license. Lyrie positions itself as the security layer for autonomous AI agents operating on the internet.

📣 Amazon Connect now supports Default Guides for After Contact Work (ACW), automatically launching a Step-by-Step Guide when an agent enters ACW. This eliminates manual navigation to wrap-up tools and helps standardize post-contact workflows. The feature reduces handle time, lowers errors, and improves agent consistency and productivity. Step-by-Step Guides are available in multiple AWS regions.

📢 AWS Service Catalog is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary). The service enables administrators to define and manage approved Infrastructure as Code products using AWS CloudFormation or third‑party tools like Terraform, and to share portfolios across accounts via AWS Organizations. Organizations can apply launch and template constraints, manage product versions, and control access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to provide governed self‑service provisioning at scale for engineers, DBAs, and other end users.

📡 Fortinet today announced the FortiExtender WAN 50G (FEW-50G), a purpose-built 5G gateway that extends WAN connectivity to the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, targeting high-throughput distributed edge and AI workloads. It delivers dual 5GE interfaces and eight internal omnidirectional antennas to provide low-latency, high-bandwidth wireless links that rival fiber in flexibility and deployment speed. Integrated with FortiOS, FortiAIOps, and cloud management, the FEW-50G supports OOB access, VRRP failover, ACLs during outages, and zero-touch provisioning for large-scale deployments.

🔔 AWS Builder Center's AWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications that alert subscribers when services or features become available in selected Regions. Subscriptions are set at the service level and automatically cover all underlying features, removing the need to track each feature individually. Notifications arrive as instantaneous in-app alerts and a consolidated weekly email digest; manage preferences under Settings > Notifications.

⚡ Google Cloud announced the Bigtable in-memory tier at Google Cloud Next ’26, adding an integrated hot-data layer that delivers sub-millisecond read latency, roughly 10× higher point-read throughput per dollar, and up to 120,000 QPS on a single row. Backed by RDMA and a hybrid RAM/SSD/HDD architecture, Bigtable auto-promotes hot rows into memory and preserves durability and enterprise controls. The capability is available in the new Bigtable Enterprise Plus edition, reducing operational cache complexity and improving TCO.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are available in AWS Europe (Ireland). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 6th-generation Nitro Cards, they deliver up to 30% better compute vs Graviton3. M8gn offers up to 600 Gbps networking for network‑intensive workloads, while M8gb provides up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for storage‑heavy applications. Larger sizes up to 48xlarge and metal options are supported.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of the new Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances, powered by custom sixth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth‑generation AWS Nitro cards. R8idn offers up to 600 Gbps networking and up to 22,800 GB of NVMe local storage; R8idb delivers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth and up to 1,440K IOPS, representing up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus the prior R6in generation. Both families target memory‑intensive workloads and are available in select US and Europe regions via On‑Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus M6idn, with M8idn offering up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth and M8idb up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth. They target network- and storage-intensive general-purpose workloads and are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain) via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region as of May 6, 2026. They offer up to 2x performance versus P5en for AI training and inference and include eight Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in memory bandwidth. P6-B200 runs on 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), supports up to 3.2 terabits per second of EFAv4 networking, and is delivered in the p6-b200.48xlarge size.