All news with #product launch tag

🚀 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.

🚀 AWS announced the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite of tools and guidance to help AI coding agents build on AWS with fewer errors, lower token costs, and enterprise-grade security controls. The toolkit includes validated agent skills, a fully managed MCP Server, and easy-to-install agent plugins. At launch AWS is shipping more than 40 skills across infrastructure-as-code, storage, analytics, serverless, containers, and AI, plus three plugin bundles for Core applications, Data Analytics, and Agent development. The Agent Toolkit is available at no additional charge; customers pay only for AWS resources consumed.

🚀 Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, offering fully managed, high-performance file systems for cloud workloads. The service supports NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS, and handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups. Built on current AWS compute, networking, and disk technologies, FSx aims to deliver improved performance and lower TCO while supporting reliability, security, and scalability.

🤖 Four new Qwen models—Qwen3.5-27B-FP8, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Qwen3.5-0.8B, and Qwen3.5-2B—are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The lineup covers multimodal vision-language reasoning, an efficient Mixture-of-Experts model optimized for agentic coding, and two compact models for rapid prototyping and edge deployments. You can deploy them in SageMaker Studio with a few clicks or programmatically via the SageMaker Python SDK for experimentation and production use.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of I8ge Amazon EC2 instances to Europe (Paris) and multiple Asia Pacific regions including Thailand, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Tokyo. Powered by Graviton4 processors and third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, these storage-optimized instances deliver notable compute and storage gains and provide up to 120 TB of local NVMe. Offered in eleven sizes (including two metal options), I8ge instances also support high network and EBS bandwidth for data-intensive workloads.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in the AWS South America (São Paulo) Region. AgentCore provides a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents with runtime, identity, gateway, policy, observability, code interpreter, and browser tools available at launch. Customers can deploy agents closer to end users to reduce latency and meet data residency requirements, with security enforced at the infrastructure layer that agents cannot bypass.

🎥 Amazon Web Services announced CloudWatch RUM Session Replay, a video-like playback feature that records clicks, scrolls, page changes, and client-side errors for web applications. It extends CloudWatch RUM's client-side performance and error telemetry by letting developers visually diagnose broken navigation flows, unresponsive UI elements, and silent UX failures. Session Replay is opt-in, supports sensitive field masking, is included at no additional cost, and is available in all AWS Regions where CloudWatch RUM is supported.

🚀 Cloudflare announced Dynamic Workflows, a compact TypeScript library that lets a single Worker Loader route durable Workflows to per-tenant code at runtime. It wraps the WORKFLOWS binding so tenant-created workflows persist, resume, and execute in the correct tenant sandbox. Built on Dynamic Workers, it supports per-tenant caching, hibernation, and minimal dispatch overhead.

🚀 Google Cloud Next ’26 introduced an integrated AI stack for startups centered on Gemini Enterprise, an end‑to‑end agent lifecycle platform with an Agent Development Kit, Agent Studio, and production runtimes that support sub‑second starts and persistent memory. The Agentic Data Cloud and zero‑ETL features enable cross‑cloud data access and high‑accuracy text‑to‑SQL to avoid costly migrations. Infrastructure updates (TPU 8t/8i, Axion N4A, new networking machines, and GKE sandboxes) plus agentic security integrations and a $750M partner fund aim to accelerate prototyping, secure production deployments, and enterprise go‑to‑market.

🚀 Amazon has introduced new Free and Plus pricing plans for Amazon Quick, enabling sign-up in minutes using a personal email or existing Google, Apple, GitHub, or Amazon credentials—no AWS account required. A guided onboarding helps users get value in under five minutes with role-specific workflows for sales, marketing, finance, operations, and more. Quick connects to applications and data to turn questions into actions—scheduling meetings, sending emails, following up on items—and builds a personal knowledge graph that learns preferences and priorities. Professional and Enterprise plans add agentic business intelligence, governance, and expanded user support.

🔗 Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee, the AI assistant from Visier, via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling HR, finance, and operations leaders to access governed workforce intelligence directly inside the Quick workspace. After connecting to Visier’s remote MCP server, users can ask natural-language questions about headcount, attrition, tenure, and open requisitions and receive answers grounded in Visier’s governed data model. Vee can also be invoked from automated Quick Flows to run recurring reviews or draft documents, and Quick augments responses with enterprise knowledge from Quick Spaces—such as budgets, policies, and plans—so answers reflect the broader organizational context. The Visier integration is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🤖 Google Cloud Next '26 in Las Vegas showcased a broad enterprise push into the agentic era, with over 32,000 attendees and 260 product, partner, and customer announcements. Highlights include the new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the Gemini Enterprise app, 8th-generation TPUs, and a host of agent-focused capabilities for development, runtime, memory, observability, and governance. The week emphasized production readiness, cross-cloud data integration, and strengthened security through the Wiz acquisition and Model Armor integrations.

🚀 AWS has added High Memory U7i instances in new regions, bringing the u7i-8tb.112xlarge to Europe (Stockholm, Zurich), the u7in-16tb.224xlarge to US East (Ohio), and the u7in-24tb.224xlarge to Europe (Stockholm). These 7th-generation instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory, offering 8, 16, and 24 TiB options with 448 or 896 vCPUs. They deliver high EBS and network throughput (up to 100 Gbps EBS; up to 100–200 Gbps network) and include ENA Express, making them well suited for mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🚀 GPT-5.5 is being made generally available in Microsoft Foundry, enabling enterprises to run OpenAI's latest frontier model for production agentic workflows. The model brings deeper long-context reasoning, improved agentic execution, higher computer-use accuracy, and better token efficiency. Foundry supplies governance, identity isolation, persistent sandboxes, and integrations to evaluate and scale agents securely.

🔗 Amazon Athena now provides managed connectors for 12 external data sources, including DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Snowflake, enabling queries against data outside Amazon S3 without deploying connector infrastructure. Athena creates and manages AWS Glue Data Catalog federated connectors on your behalf and registers each source as a federated catalog. You can query those sources alongside S3 data and optionally apply fine‑grained access controls through AWS Lake Formation. Federated queries are available in all standard AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports serverless notebooks and a built-in data agent for AWS IAM Identity Center (IdC) domains, extending functionality that was previously available only in IAM domains. The serverless notebook provides a single interactive workspace for SQL, Python, large-scale data processing, ML workloads, and visualizations. A built-in AI data agent generates code and SQL from natural-language prompts and helps guide users through tasks. The environment is backed by Amazon Athena for Apache Spark, scaling from interactive queries to petabyte-scale processing, and is available in all Regions where Unified Studio is supported.

🔧 Amazon has released the aws-smus-cicd-cli, an open-source command-line tool that automates deployment of multi-service data and AI applications built in SageMaker Unified Studio. Teams define applications once in an manifest.yaml, and the CLI substitutes stage-specific settings, provisions resources in dependency order, and runs post-deployment tests. Four lifecycle commands — describe, bundle, deploy, test — integrate with existing CI/CD pipelines to reduce configuration drift and speed releases. The CLI is available at no additional cost in supported Regions; you pay only for the AWS resources provisioned during deployment.

📊 AWS has launched the Attributed Revenue dashboard in AWS Partner Central, providing Partners a self-service view of monthly attributed revenue by product, AWS service, and billing period. The dashboard consolidates data from the three Partner Revenue Measurement methods — Resource Tagging, User Agent string, and AWS Marketplace Metering — so Partners can monitor consumption patterns and revenue trends. Partners with multiple AWS Marketplace seller accounts can connect subsidiary accounts to see aggregated revenue across all connected accounts, and the dashboard is available in all commercial regions for Partners migrated to AWS Partner Central.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 X8g instances in the Europe (Ireland) region. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, X8g delivers up to 60% better performance than Graviton2-based X2gd instances and supports up to 3 TiB of memory with an increased memory-per-vCPU ratio. These instances target memory-intensive workloads — including EDA, in-memory caches, relational databases, real-time analytics, and memory-heavy containerized applications — and provide enhanced networking, high EBS bandwidth, and EFA/ENA support on larger sizes.