All news with #product launch tag

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and AWS Canada (Central). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and the AWS Nitro System, R8g delivers up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances for memory‑intensive workloads. The family includes 12 sizes (two bare‑metal options), scales up to 48xlarge with 1.5 TB RAM, and offers up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and 40 Gbps to Amazon EBS. AWS recommends the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help migrate workloads.

🚀 Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available in the AWS Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. With Redshift Serverless, users—data analysts, developers, and data scientists—can run analytics without provisioning or managing clusters, benefiting from automatic provisioning, intelligent scaling, and per-second compute billing. You can query data via Query Editor V2 or existing BI tools, load data from Amazon S3 (including Apache Parquet), use Redshift data shares, restore provisioned snapshots, and take advantage of unified billing for queries across these sources.

🛡️ AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, allowing customers to deploy web application firewall protections closer to their users. The service helps protect web applications from common exploits and automated bots that can affect availability, security, or resource consumption. Note that AWS WAF Bot Control with targeted inspection and the Anti-DDoS managed rule group are not currently available in this region.

🚗 Horizon is an open-source, cloud-native software factory developed by Google and Accenture to standardize platform development for Android Automotive OS (AAOS) and related embedded vehicle software. It promotes a virtual-first workflow using high-fidelity cloud devices, VHAL, virtio, and scalable Cuttlefish instances to enable elastic testing and rapid developer feedback. Innovations such as the Android Build File System (ABFS), containerized reproducible builds, and integrated code tooling have produced 10x–50x faster feedback in early deployments, reducing build times and supporting high-frequency, higher-quality releases.

🔍 Amazon EC2 today announced AMI Usage, a new capability to track AMI consumption across AWS accounts and resources. It generates reports listing accounts that use your AMIs in EC2 instances and launch templates and shows utilization across instances, launch templates, Image Builder recipes, and SSM parameters. This reduces the need for custom scripts, helps safely manage AMI deregistrations, and supports cost optimization. AMI Usage is available at no additional cost in all AWS regions, including China and GovCloud.

🌐 Amazon Neptune now supports Public Endpoints, enabling developers to connect to Neptune clusters directly from development desktops without VPNs, bastion hosts, or complex network setups. The capability can be enabled for new or existing clusters running engine version 1.4.6 or later via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK. Security is maintained using IAM authentication, VPC security groups, and encryption in transit. The feature is available at no additional cost in all Regions where Neptune is offered.

🌐 AWS announced a new AWS Direct Connect location at East African Data Centres NBO1 near Nairobi, Kenya. The site is the first Direct Connect location in Kenya and offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. From this location customers can establish private, physical connections to all public AWS Regions (except China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones, providing a more consistent network experience than the public internet.

🔒 Cloudflare framed AI Week 2025 around products and controls to help organizations adopt AI while retaining safety and visibility. The company emphasized four core priorities: securing AI environments and workflows; protecting original content from misuse; enabling developers to build secure AI experiences; and applying AI to improve Cloudflare’s services. Key launches included AI Gateway, Infire, AI Crawl Control, expanded CASB scanning, and MCP Server Portals, with a continued focus on customer feedback and ongoing investment.

🚀 Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific Jakarta region, enabling customers to build and scale generative AI applications closer to end users. The fully managed service exposes a selection of high-performing foundation models via a single API and includes capabilities such as Guardrails and Model customization. These features are designed to help organizations incorporate security, privacy, and responsible AI into production workflows while accelerating development and deployment.

🛠️ Anthropic is rolling out a research preview of a web-based Claude Code, bringing its terminal-focused coding assistant into the browser at Claude.ai/code. The web preview requires installing the GitHub Claude app on a repository and committing a "Claude Dispatch" GitHub workflow file before use, with optional email and web notifications for updates. Claude Code—already available in terminals and integrated editors under paid plans—can inspect codebases to help fix bugs, test features, simplify Git tasks, and automate workflows. It remains unclear whether the terminal and web versions can access or share the same repository content or usage data.

🚀 Eventarc Advanced is now generally available as a unified, serverless eventing platform that centralizes real-time filtering, transformation, management, and delivery for complex microservices environments. It extends Eventarc Standard with a Publish API and a central message bus built on Envoy, enabling per-message access control, multi-format payload handling (Avro, JSON, Protobuf), and built-in routing and observability. The platform is designed to simplify development with a single API while giving platform operators centralized governance, monitoring, and reliable delivery across hybrid and multi-cloud topologies.

📢 Amazon QuickSight announces the general availability of a native Google Sheets connector. Customers can sign in with their Google account and import sheets directly into a QuickSight SPICE dataset for analysis and visualization. The connector is available across multiple AWS regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. This simplifies bringing spreadsheet data into QuickSight and reduces manual data movement for BI teams and analysts.

📍 Amazon QuickSight is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) and United Arab Emirates (Dubai) AWS Regions, enabling local customers to author, share, and embed interactive analytics at scale. QuickSight is a fast, fully managed BI service that supports browser-based dashboard creation and can be shared with tens of thousands of users without provisioning infrastructure. The launch expands QuickSight to 25 regions globally, improving latency, data residency options, and compliance for regional organizations.

🔍 Cloudflare has integrated Cloudy, its first AI agent, with security analytics and introduced a conversational chat interface to accelerate root-cause analysis and mitigation. The chat lets users ask natural-language questions, refine investigations, and pivot from a single indicator to related threat events in minutes. Paired with the Cloudforce One Threat Events platform and built on the Agents SDK running on Workers AI, Cloudy surfaces contextual IOCs, attacker timelines, and prioritized actions at scale. Cloudflare emphasizes Cloudy was not trained on customer data and plans deeper WAF debugging and Alerts integrations.

🔍 Cloudflare is introducing two AI-powered tools to simplify troubleshooting for the Cloudflare One SASE platform: the new WARP diagnostic analyzer in the Zero Trust dashboard and a DEX MCP server for Digital Experience Monitoring. Both features are available to all Cloudflare One customers by default and convert diagnostic logs into clear, actionable insights. The WARP analyzer highlights events, device details, and exports JSON for deeper analysis, while the DEX MCP server enables natural-language queries and custom analytics without heavy SIEM integration.

🔊 Cloudflare announced new realtime voice AI capabilities to simplify building low-latency conversational agents on its global edge. The release includes Realtime Agents, a composable runtime for orchestrating STT, LLM, and TTS pipelines at the edge, plus the ability to pipe raw WebRTC audio as PCM into Workers, WebSocket-based realtime inference in Workers AI, and Deepgram models deployed across 330+ cities. These features aim to reduce infrastructure complexity and latency for voice-enabled applications.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. They deliver up to 60% better compute and up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB compared with previous Graviton2/Im4gn generations. I8ge offers up to 120 TB local NVMe instance storage, 1,536 GiB memory, sizes up to 48xlarge plus two metal options, and up to 300 Gbps networking, making them suitable for real-time databases, analytics, search, and streaming workloads. Instances are available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced the Amazon EMR S3A connector, an AWS-optimized S3 interface for Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Hive on EMR. It extends open-source S3A with AWS-specific enhancements including MagicCommitter V2, improved credentials resolution, accelerated prefix listing, and Spark fine-grained access control. The connector is pre-configured in EMR release 7.10 and later and is available in all Regions where EMR runs.

🚀 Google has announced the 2025 Brazilian cohort for the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First, selecting 11 companies applying AI across finance, health, marketing, and agriculture. The program begins on September 2 and will provide personalized technical and strategic support, including mentorship and access to Google's AI experts. The cohort spans solutions for automated billing and claims, digital pathology, agroforestry intelligence, creator marketing, legal automation, treasury automation, and AI-driven children's storytelling.

🔊 Amazon Polly announces general availability of seven new highly expressive generative voices in English, French, Polish, and Dutch. The release introduces one male-sounding voice (Canadian French - Liam) and six female-sounding voices, including US English - Salli and Polish - Ola and Ewa, bringing the Generative TTS roster to 27 voices. These generative voices are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt), and leverage Polly’s GenAI-based polyglot capability to preserve a consistent vocal identity across languages.