All news with #product launch tag

🚀 Microsoft announced early access preview of Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs at Build 2026, delivering up to 50% generational performance improvements over Cobalt 100 for agentic AI and cloud-native Linux workloads. The Cobalt 200 SoC, built on Arm Neoverse V3 and TSMC 3nm, features chiplets, custom accelerators, and enhanced memory and security capabilities. New VM families (including high-memory and dense local storage) expand deployment choices and are available in selected preview regions.

🔎 Foundry IQ streamlines bringing enterprise and external knowledge into agent workflows by unifying content, improving ingestion, and offering a serverless model for retrieval. The service provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, integrates Microsoft Web IQ for low-latency external context, and includes GA security and compliance features. Serverless Developer tier is in public preview with CU-based billing estimates and scale-to-zero capacity.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are available in Europe (Ireland). These general-purpose, high-frequency instances use fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors and deliver up to 5 GHz in the cloud, with up to 2x compute performance over M5zn and up to 24% higher performance than M8a. They provide higher memory bandwidth, larger L3 cache, and improved networking and EBS throughput, and come in nine sizes including bare metal options.

🚀 Claude Opus 4.8 is now accessible in Microsoft Foundry, providing developers and enterprises with Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work. The update focuses on long-running workflows, deeper reasoning across documents and codebases, and more reliable tool use for multi-step automation. Teams can now evaluate and deploy the model within Foundry’s unified platform for building and operating AI applications.

🖼️ Google Cloud announced Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) are generally available via the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, offering enterprise-grade image generation and editing. Nano Banana 2 now supports video files as input in preview, enabling deep video understanding to generate context-aware images. 1K and 2K outputs are GA while 4K remains in preview. The models are integrated by partners like Adobe, WPP, Shopify, URBN, and Magnopus to scale creative workflows and production pipelines.

🤖 AWS now offers Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's most capable generally available model, bringing advances in agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and autonomous long-running tasks for developers and enterprises. The model sustains longer sessions, reasons more deeply, and maintains consistency for production workflows. Customers can access Opus 4.8 via Amazon Bedrock or the Claude Platform on AWS, with AWS-managed features and unified billing.

🚀 The next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available, offering a fully managed search and vector engine optimized for agentic workflows. It auto-scales up to 20x faster and provisions resources in seconds, supports scale-to-zero and pay-per-usage pricing, and can reduce costs by up to 60% versus provisioning clusters for peak loads. New features include a shared storage layer that decouples compute and storage, two resource-based endpoints for simplified network connectivity, and native integrations with AI development platforms and OpenSearch Agent Skills.

🤖 Amazon Connect Customer Assistant is integrated into the UI builder, allowing contact center managers to create and modify views using natural language. Managers can describe desired screens, like “Create a feedback form with rating and comment fields,” and the assistant generates UI components for review before publishing. This capability can reduce time and required expertise by up to 70% when building Views for Step-by-Step Guides and Workspace pages.

🎥 AWS Elemental Inference introduces Smart subtitles, an AI-driven capability that produces real-time TTML-formatted captions for live streams with low latency. The feature supports English (US, GB, AU), French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish and integrates natively with AWS Elemental MediaLive. Users can create custom dictionaries via the Elemental Inference API or console to improve accuracy for domain-specific terms. Smart subtitles co-exist with other Elemental Inference features and benefit from non-linear pricing when multiple features are applied to the same content.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams has introduced Generation 6e (G6e) stream classes, delivering enhanced GPU performance for streaming graphically demanding games and applications. The G6e classes use EC2 G6e instances with NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs and 3rd gen AMD EPYC processors, offering 2x GPU memory and up to 2.9x faster GPU memory bandwidth versus standard Gen6 classes. Two variants — gen6e_pro and gen6e_pro_win2022 — provide a full dedicated NVIDIA L40S GPU with 48 GB memory, suited for AAA-quality streaming at high resolutions. G6e stream classes are available in select AWS Regions including US East, US West, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

🚀 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions, enabling customers to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and keep data within the Region to meet residency requirements. The managed, serverless service offers virtually unlimited throughput and storage while customers pay only for used resources. These Regions provide the same features as other AWS Regions, including point-in-time recovery, Multi-Region replication, CDC streams, and IPv6 support, reducing operational overhead of running Cassandra clusters.

🟦 Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These custom AWS-only processors deliver up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86 Intel processors used by other clouds. C7i-flex and M7i-flex provide up to 19% improved price-performance for common general-purpose workloads, while M7i offers up to 15% price-performance gains and larger sizes including bare metal with Intel accelerators.

🚀 At Google I/O ‘26, Google Cloud announced expanded agentic capabilities, new frontier models, and developer tools to help startups move from prototype to production. Highlights include Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Omni for multimodal content, Antigravity 2.0 as an agent control plane with CLI/SDK and dynamic subagents, and Managed Agents to run agent workloads securely in Google Cloud. The releases aim to accelerate development, reduce infrastructure overhead, and provide enterprise-grade security.

🔔 AppLifecycle Manager Feature Flags (ALM FF) enters public preview as a rule-based service to decouple feature releases from code deployments. By using toggles and the Common Expression Language (CEL), teams can perform gradual rollouts, instant kill-switches, and percentage-based traffic ramps. String-type flags enable dynamic configuration for applications, including LLM prompts, while OpenFeature compatibility avoids vendor lock-in.

🚀 Flipper Devices is soliciting community help to develop Flipper One, a high-performance, ARM Linux platform for networking, SDR analysis, and local LLMs. Unlike the Flipper Zero, One is a different project built around a Rockchip RK3576 SoC paired with an RP2350 MCU in a dual-processor design. It targets modular expansion via M.2, PCIe, USB 3.1 and other interfaces. Prototypes exist but significant kernel, firmware, and hardware work remains.

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on DocumentDB 8.0. This on-demand, auto-scaling configuration automatically adjusts capacity based on application demand and can deliver up to 90% cost savings versus provisioning for peak load. DocumentDB 8.0 also offers up to 7x improved query latency, up to 5x better compression, broader MongoDB API compatibility (6.0–8.0), enhanced vector search, and other new features.

🔒Security Hub Extended expands AWS Security Hub to include curated partner solutions in a single, unified console. Customers can discover, evaluate, and deploy vendor products with one click and pay-as-you-go pricing on their AWS bill, avoiding lengthy procurement and multi-year commitments. Integrated onboarding, OCSF-normalized findings, and AWS-native correlation surface combined attack paths and risk scoring. The offering launched in February 2026 with an expanding partner ecosystem.

🧩 ExtendDB v0.1 implements the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends, enabling developers to run DynamoDB-shaped workloads outside AWS-managed service. The reference backend uses PostgreSQL, and the architecture supports community-contributed adapters. Maintained by AWS under the Apache 2.0 license, ExtendDB targets local development, CI testing, on‑premises deployments, and disconnected edge sites. The project is open on GitHub for contributions.

🚀 Google Cloud announced general availability of GKE Agent Sandbox and introduced the open-source Agent Substrate. Agent Sandbox is a cloud-native execution environment designed for AI agents, offering pod snapshots to suspend idle workloads, an integrated warm pool for sub-second provisioning, gVisor and pluggable kernel isolation, and standby suspended VMs to reduce warm-pool cost. Agent Substrate aims to provide a minimal control plane and scheduler optimizations to support ultra-dense, low-latency agent workloads at scale.

🔧 Google today introduced Agent Executor, an open-source runtime standard for durable, resumable, and distributed agent execution. It offers event logging and snapshotting to enable durable execution, secure sandbox isolation to limit harm, and a single-writer architecture to maintain session consistency. Agent Executor also supports connection recovery so clients can reconnect to long-running workflows. The project is available in preview and pairs with Agent Substrate to improve Kubernetes-scale agent scheduling.