All news with #product launch tag

🔗 Cloudflare now enables developers to create and manage PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases directly from the Cloudflare dashboard and API, with billing to your Cloudflare account launching next month. The integration uses Hyperdrive to provide managed connection pools and query caching so Workers can run fast, reliable SQL queries with standard Postgres clients. Configuration is simple: add a Hyperdrive binding to your Worker and connect using the connection string provided, allowing low-latency global access and familiar PlanetScale tooling.

🗂 Artifacts is a Git-compatible, versioned filesystem built for agent-first workflows. It enables programmatic repo creation, credential issuance, and commit operations via a REST API or a native Workers API while remaining accessible to any standard Git client. Cloudflare implements Artifacts on Durable Objects with a Zig-to-WASM Git engine and supports import, forking, git-notes, and session-scoped repositories. The feature is in private beta for paid Workers plans, with a public beta expected in early May.

🔍 Cloudflare introduced AI Search, a plug-and-play search primitive that provides a unified retrieval layer for agents, support bots, and coding assistants. It pairs hybrid semantic (vector) and BM25 keyword matching, managed storage, and built-in vector indexes so developers can create instances at runtime without provisioning separate infrastructure. The service integrates with Workers, the Agents SDK, and Wrangler, supports metadata boosts and cross-instance queries, and can optionally rerank results with a cross-encoder.

🚀 Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Amazon Bedrock, delivering Anthropic’s most capable Opus release with improvements across coding, professional knowledge work, visual understanding, and long-running task handling. Served via Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine, Opus 4.7 offers enterprise features such as zero operator data access, dynamic traffic routing, and improved scalability. The model enhances agentic coding, systems engineering, long-horizon reasoning, and high-resolution image support, and is available in select AWS Regions.

✉️ Cloudflare has opened Email Sending to public beta, enabling applications and agents to send transactional email directly from Workers or via REST and SDKs. The service pairs with Email Routing to provide full bidirectional workflows—receive, process, persist, and reply—without external infrastructure. Built-in deliverability features (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and global delivery on Cloudflare’s network simplify operations. Tooling additions include a Workers binding, MCP server, Wrangler CLI commands, a Cloudflare Email skill, and an open-source Agentic Inbox reference app.

🤖 Agent Lee is an in-dashboard AI assistant that understands your Cloudflare account and can troubleshoot, visualize, and modify resources on demand. Built on Cloudflare primitives like Workers, Durable Objects, and the Agents SDK, it uses a TypeScript Codemode to generate server-side calls that run through a sandboxed MCP proxy. Write operations require explicit user approval via an elicitation gate, and the beta — serving ~18,000 daily users and ~250k tool calls per day — is available now.

🧠 Project Think is Cloudflare’s next-generation Agents SDK, introducing primitives and an opinionated base class to build long-running, serverless AI agents. It combines durable execution with fibers, isolated sub-agents (Facets) backed by per-agent SQLite, persistent tree-structured sessions, and sandboxed code execution via Dynamic Workers and @cloudflare/codemode. The Think base class wires workspace, toolchains, resumable streams, and extensions together so developers can deploy resumable, auditable agents that cost nothing when idle.

🔒 The new Aurora DSQL Connector for PHP (PDO_PGSQL) simplifies building PHP applications on Aurora DSQL by automating IAM token generation, SSL configuration, and connection pooling. It removes the need for static user-managed passwords while maintaining full compatibility with existing PDO_PGSQL features. The connector also offers opt-in optimistic concurrency control (OCC) retries with exponential backoff and supports custom IAM credential providers and AWS profiles to streamline credential management and client retry logic.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances available in AWS GovCloud (US‑West). Powered by AWS‑exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors, the instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations, and up to 20% higher performance than M7i variants. AWS cites workload gains of up to 30% for PostgreSQL, 60% for NGINX web workloads, and 40% for deep learning recommendation models. M8i‑flex targets common sizes for cost‑efficient general purpose use, while M8i supports large, SAP‑certified and bare‑metal options including a new 96xlarge.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US‑West) Region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared with prior Intel-based generations. R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads, while R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for applications that don’t fully utilize vCPUs. Both families are SAP-certified and targeted at memory-intensive databases, web services, analytics, and recommendation models.

🌍AWS has expanded AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management to the Israel (Tel Aviv) and Europe (Milan) Regions. This move enables local organizations to reduce latency, strengthen data residency controls, and lower cross-region transfer costs. The services support industry-standard protocols and scale to manage billions of devices. AWS IoT is now available in 27 Regions worldwide.

🔍 AWS has previewed the Agent Registry in AgentCore, a private, governed catalog and discovery layer for agents, tools, skills, MCP servers, and custom resources across an organization. The registry is accessible via the AgentCore Console, APIs (AWS CLI, AWS SDK), or as an MCP server that builders can query from their IDEs, and it supports IAM and OAuth (Custom JWT) access. Teams can register resources manually or use URL-based discovery to harvest metadata from live endpoints; records pass through an approval workflow and are auditable via AWS CloudTrail. Semantic and keyword search lets developers find capabilities by describing use cases in natural language.

🔎 The AWS Marketplace Discovery API provides programmatic access to product and pricing data across the Marketplace catalog, including SaaS, AI agents and tools, AMIs, containers, and machine learning models. Buyers can embed catalog data into internal portals and procurement workflows, while sellers and channel partners can surface listings, public pricing, and private offer details within their storefronts. The API is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) and is accessed using IAM permissions via the AWS SDK.

🔒 Cloudflare has introduced Organizations in public beta to help enterprise customers manage multiple Cloudflare Accounts centrally. The feature creates an organization layer for account grouping, introduces an Org Super Administrator role, and provides aggregated analytics and shared policy sets. Initial rollout targets enterprise plans with staged expansion to other customers and partners. There is no additional fee for Organizations during beta.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of Smithy-Java, an open-source Java framework that generates type-safe clients and standalone types from Smithy models. Built on Java 21 virtual threads, it offers a simpler blocking-style API while remaining competitive with complex async alternatives. The GA release includes a Java client code generator, support for AWS SigV4 and major protocols, a dynamic client that requires no codegen step, standalone type generation for reuse, schema-driven serialization to reduce SDK size, and binary decision diagrams for faster endpoint resolution.

🗣️ Looker Embedded now offers conversational analytics through the generally available Conversational Analytics API, enabling natural-language querying and AI recommendations inside customer-facing applications. The capability can be deployed via a low-code iframe or integrated SDKs and supports multi-Explore queries, a built-in code interpreter, and customizable theming for private-labeled experiences. Grounded in Looker’s governed semantic layer, it surfaces verifiable SQL to reduce hallucinations and accelerate developer extensibility and data monetization.

🚀 The new AWS IoT Greengrass Component SDK delivers a compact, high-performance runtime for edge devices, reducing component memory footprints to under 0.5MB compared with roughly 30MB. It provides native C, C++, and Rust bindings while maintaining compatibility with both the Greengrass nucleus and nucleus lite. Targeted at resource-constrained industries such as automotive, industrial IoT, robotics, and smart buildings, the SDK enables more complex AI/ML workloads at the edge and is available in all AWS Regions where Greengrass is offered.

🚀 Google Cloud has launched Veo 3.1 Lite, a cost‑effective video generation model available now on Vertex AI, and introduced a new standalone Veo upscaling capability currently in private preview. The Veo 3.1 family now includes three tiers—Veo 3.1, Veo 3.1 Fast, and Veo 3.1 Lite—all with native audio generation. The upscaling tool enhances existing low‑resolution videos to 1080p and 4K, regardless of source, and access is provided via the Vertex AI API and Vertex AI Media Studio. Developer documentation and a sample video editor agent are available to help teams get started.

🛡️ Cloudflare introduced EmDash, presented as a modern, more secure alternative to WordPress. The MIT-licensed, open-source CMS aims to reduce plugin-driven vulnerabilities by isolating execution and enforcing least-privilege principles. EmDash uses a different content model and targets developer-first and AI-driven site workflows. While attractive for new projects, enterprises face nontrivial migration and ecosystem challenges.

🔒 Gemma 4 is now available on Google Cloud as an open, commercially permissive (Apache 2.0) family of models with context windows up to 256K, native vision and audio processing, and support for over 140 languages. Enterprises can deploy and fine-tune Gemma 4 via Vertex AI, serve inference serverlessly on Cloud Run, or run production workloads on GKE and TPUs. The release highlights data residency and compliance through Sovereign Cloud options and open weights, enabling secure, controlled AI deployments.