All news with #product launch tag

🔒 Palo Alto Networks announced that Prisma AIRS, accelerated on the NVIDIA BlueField DPU, is now part of the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design. The integration embeds zero trust runtime security into AI infrastructure by running Prisma AIRS Network Intercept on BlueField and extending enforcement to cloud environments. It leverages NVIDIA DOCA and DOCA Argus telemetry to feed Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR for AI-driven detection and response, and recommends hyperscale firewall clusters for defense-in-depth and improved TCO.

🔒 Check Point and NVIDIA announced an integrated security capability to protect AI "factories" across the entire AI lifecycle, from data ingestion and model training to deployment and inference. The effort targets growing risks such as prompt manipulation and attacks on GenAI infrastructure, which Gartner and other industry surveys identify as rising threats. The collaboration focuses on unified visibility, real-time detection, runtime protection, and centralized policy enforcement to reduce operational risk and help organizations meet compliance and governance requirements.

⚡ Adapt Browser is a lightweight, task-focused browser designed to reduce CPU and memory overhead, simplify the interface, and centralize web workflows for improved productivity. By minimizing background services and avoiding feature bloat, it delivers faster page loads and more responsive tab and window management. Built as a non‑Chromium browser and AppEsteem-certified, Adapt emphasizes resource control and transparency without complex setup, producing a clearer workspace and fewer distractions during extended work sessions.

🛡️ AWS announced that AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common exploits and bots by letting you block, allow, or return custom responses based on conditions such as source IP, query strings, and other request attributes. This regional expansion supports lower latency and regional data handling for New Zealand customers.

🚀 MiniMax-M2 is now available on SageMaker JumpStart, enabling immediate deployment of this efficient open-source MoE model in minutes. The model combines 230 billion total parameters with 10 billion active parameters to deliver a compact, fast, and cost-effective option optimized for coding and agentic tasks while preserving strong general intelligence. Customers can deploy via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK and follow AWS best practices for production use.

🤖 AWS End User Messaging now offers a Generative AI Registration Reviewer (preview) to help customers validate phone number registrations before submitting to mobile carriers. The reviewer checks message samples, opt-in descriptions, declared use-cases, and help/stop texts, providing feedback and suggested corrections to improve completeness and accuracy. Available in all Regions where AWS End User Messaging is offered, the preview aims to reduce carrier rejections and speed the registration process.

🔐 AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that enable administrators to programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. The APIs support user lifecycle management, network configuration, and security group administration to automate onboarding, offboarding, retention, federation, and policy enforcement. Organizations can integrate Wickr administration with identity systems and automation pipelines and access the APIs in all supported AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-West), via SDKs, the AWS CLI, or direct REST calls.

🐳 Docker has open-sourced and made freely available over 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) under the Apache 2.0 license to provide a secure, minimal foundation for containerized applications. The images are rootless, stripped of unnecessary components, SBOM-verifiable, and shipped with SLSA Build Level 3 provenance and proof of authenticity. Docker will continue to publish fixes for DHI components while reserving a 7-day critical CVE patching SLA for the commercial DHI Enterprise tier. The full DHI catalog and subscription options are available from Docker's product offerings.

🐧 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleet, enabling Independent Software Vendors and central IT to stream Ubuntu desktop applications from an AWS-managed, serverless pool. Elastic fleet removes the need for capacity planning, scaling policies, or image creation. Administrators can enable the feature via the WorkSpaces Applications console and choose supported AWS Regions; pricing is pay-as-you-go.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Spain) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors running up to 4.5 GHz, C8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a, plus 33% greater memory bandwidth. Available in 12 sizes (including two bare-metal options), they target high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads and support Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot purchasing.

🔐 Infinity Global Services (IGS) has launched its first dedicated AI security training courses, the initial release in a growing AI services portfolio. The programs offer expert-led instruction and hands-on labs to help security teams, developers, and leaders defend against AI-driven threats and implement AI securely across operations and product development. IGS also plans upcoming offerings in AI red teaming, governance, and implementation consulting to extend defensive and advisory capabilities.

🚀 AWS Databases including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB are now generally available on the Vercel Marketplace, allowing developers to create and connect to managed databases directly from Vercel in seconds. You can provision a new AWS account from Vercel that includes access to these databases and $100 USD in credits usable for up to six months, and manage billing and usage via the AWS settings portal in the Vercel dashboard. Serverless options support scale-to-zero economics and are available in multiple Regions including US East, US West, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of the new Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances powered by AWS Graviton4. M8gn targets network‑intensive workloads and provides up to 600 Gbps of networking bandwidth with 6th‑generation Nitro Cards, while M8gb focuses on high block‑storage throughput with up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth. Both families offer up to 768 GiB of memory, large instance sizes, and EFA support on selected sizes; initial availability is in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Cluster Director is now generally available on Google Cloud, offering a managed, topology‑aware control plane for Slurm clusters to streamline AI and HPC operations. It automates Day 0 planning, Day 1 deployment, and Day 2 monitoring with health checks, Managed Lustre attachment, topology‑aware placement, and one‑click node remediation. There is no additional fee for Cluster Director — customers pay only for underlying Google Cloud resources. Google also announced a Preview of Slurm on GKE to combine Slurm's batch scheduling with Kubernetes' autoscaling and self‑healing.

⚡ Gemini 3 Flash expands the Gemini 3 family with a low-latency, cost-efficient model tuned for high-frequency enterprise workflows. It combines Pro-grade reasoning with Flash-level speed to enable near real-time multimodal processing, rapid agentic coding, and responsive interactive agents without sacrificing accuracy. Available in Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI, and Gemini CLI, it targets scale and affordability for production deployments.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has introduced OI2 instances for Amazon OpenSearch Service, expanding the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family with sizes from large to 24xlarge and up to 22.5 TB of storage. The OI2 instances use the same architecture as OR2, pairing compute and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for caching with remote S3-based managed storage, delivering up to 9% higher indexing throughput versus OR2 and up to 33% versus I8g in AWS internal benchmarks. OI2 is offered with pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing and is available in 12 AWS regions globally.

🚀Amazon announced that SageMaker AI is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region. Starting today, developers and data scientists in New Zealand can build, train, and deploy machine learning models locally using the fully managed SageMaker AI platform. The service removes much of the operational overhead across the ML lifecycle, helping teams move from experimentation to production more quickly and consistently. Customers should review AWS documentation and pricing to get started.

🚀 The new Google Cloud Partner Network is a restructured program launching in Q1 2026 that shifts partner evaluation from checklist activity to measurable customer outcomes. It centers on three pillars — simplicity, outcomes, and automation — and introduces a three-tier model: Select, Premier, and a selective Diamond tier. A competency framework measuring capacity and capability, together with an automated Partner Network Hub, will reduce administrative burden and automatically credit qualifying customer engagements.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 M8i-flex instances in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous-generation Intel-based instances. Compared with M7i-flex, M8i-flex delivers up to 20% higher performance overall and substantially larger gains for targeted workloads such as PostgreSQL, NGINX web serving, and AI recommendation models. They are offered in common general-purpose sizes from large to 16xlarge and are positioned as a first choice for applications that do not fully utilize all compute resources.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These instances use 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver improved performance, better price performance, and lower cost per GiB of memory versus prior X1e instances. They are SAP-certified for a broad set of HANA and NetWeaver workloads.